On August 16, 2018, Zhang Wenxiong, former member of the Standing Committee of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee and former head of the Propaganda Department, took bribes and the source of a huge amount of property was unknown, and the verdict was announced publicly.
Zhang Wenxiong was convicted of two crimes: accepting bribes, and was sentenced to 13 years in prison, and confiscated personal property of RMB 2 million;Combined punishment for several crimes, it was decided to implement a fixed-term imprisonment of 15 years and confiscate personal property of RMB 2 million.
In the judgment, the Guilin Intermediate People's Court of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region mentioned the name of Zhang Wenxiong's wife, Tu Aifang.
The court found that: from 2002 to the first half of 2016, Zhang Wenxiong took advantage of his position as Deputy Secretary-General of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, Secretary of the Huaihua Municipal Committee, Secretary of the Hengyang Municipal Committee, Member of the Standing Committee of the Hunan Provincial Committee, Director of the Propaganda Department, etc., as well as his powers and statusThe convenient conditions formed provide assistance for relevant units and individuals in matters such as project contracting, job adjustment, and project development.
From the second half of 2004 to June 2016, Zhang Wenxiong directly or through his wife Tu Aifang illegally accepted property from others, equivalent to more than 23.35 million yuan.
In addition, Zhang Wenxiong's family property and expenditure obviously exceeded the legal income, and he could not explain the source of the total property equivalent to more than 51.58 million yuan.
According to the verdict, Zhang Wenxiong was given a lighter punishment. Since Zhang Wenxiong was able to truthfully confess his crimes, plead guilty and repent, and actively return the stolen goods after arriving at the case, most of the stolen money and stolen goods have been recovered, so he can be given a lighter punishment according to law.
After Zhang Wenxiong was announced to be investigated in August 2016, the issue of his wife Tu Aifang using her influence to make money gradually surfaced.
According to public information, Tu Aifang has been working in the insurance system. In January 2013, the Hunan Provincial Insurance Regulatory Bureau approved her qualifications to serve as the deputy general manager of the Changsha Central Branch of China Life Property Insurance Co., Ltd.Moreover, she held shares in Hunan Yongqing Environmental Protection Co., Ltd. and Hunan Haili Chemical Co., Ltd.
According to Caixin and other media reports, Tu Aifang, known as Sister Tu, followed Zhang Wenxiong's promotion all the way, and took on many greening and sewage treatment projects.Some local officials in Hunan reported that after the construction of Baishazhou Industrial Park in Hengyang City started in 2004, no matter whether it was infrastructure construction or land acquisition by companies in the industrial park, many bidding projects had to be paid to Tu, and she collected money multilaterally, and all the companies participating in the auction received money., Finally, a certain lsquo;point rsquo; commission will be collected from the bidding amount of the winning company.In 2011, after Zhang Wenxiong served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee and director of the Management Committee of the Changsha-Zhuzhou-Tanshan Two-Type Society (resource-saving and environment-friendly) experimental zone in Hunan Province, Tu Aifang also served in an association in Hunan Province under the banner of Zhang WenxiongDo things for others.Some Hunan officials commented that Tu is arrogant and domineering, and is very high-profile among the wives of high officials.
The official website of the Hunan Provincial Law Society’s Rule of Law Research Association disclosed that as early as when Zhang Wenxiong was the deputy secretary-general of the provincial party committee, Tu began to use Zhang’s banner to sell insurance to relevant units, invest in shares everywhere, and once even found a provincial government agency.The person in charge of the unit asked the unit to take care of all the vehicle insurance business for her.
