Legal Evening News middot; Opinion News (Reporter Dong Zhenjie) On August 16, the Intermediate People's Court of Guilin City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region publicly sentenced Zhang Wenxiong, former member of the Standing Committee of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and former head of the Propaganda Department, for accepting bribes and the source of a huge amount of property was unknown.Wenxiong was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the crime of accepting bribes (23.35 million) and the crime of unknown source of huge property (50 million).
After the case was announced on the Internet, many netizens were not only surprised by the 23.35 million yuan in bribes, but also a little surprised that the source of Zhang Wenxiong's huge property of 50 million yuan was unknown.
Legal Evening News middot; Opinion News reporters inquired about the information and learned that the source of huge property is unknown, which means that the property or expenditure of state functionaries obviously exceeds the legal income, and the difference is huge.
The legal income of state functionaries shall include wages, bonuses, various subsidies issued by the state, other personal labor income, gifts from relatives and friends, and property inherited according to law.After the officials were sacked, most of them were found to have been involved in corruption and bribery. In addition to legal property, if the person himself did not admit that it was from corruption or bribery, and he could not explain the legal source, and the judiciary was unable to find out due to various conditions, the court would onlyCan be sentenced for the crime of unknown source of huge amount of property.
Zhang Wenxiong in court
Zhang Wenxiong was sentenced to 15 years in prison for accepting bribes of 23.355 million property from unknown sources
According to the WeChat official account of Guangxi High Court, on August 16, 2018, the Intermediate People's Court of Guilin City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region publicly sentenced Zhang Wenxiong, former member of the Standing Committee of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and former head of the Propaganda Department, for accepting bribes and having a huge amount of property with unknown sources.Zhang Wenxiong was sentenced to 13 years in prison for the crime of accepting bribes and confiscated personal property of RMB 2 million, and sentenced to 5 years in prison for the crime of unknown source of huge property, and decided to implement 15 years in prison and confiscated personal property of RMB 2 million;The property obtained by Zhang Wenxiong from bribery and the property whose source cannot be explained and its fruits shall be recovered and turned over to the state treasury, and the insufficient part shall continue to be recovered.
The trial found that: from 2002 to the first half of 2016, the defendant Zhang Wenxiong used his positions as Deputy Secretary-General of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee, Secretary of the CPC Huaihua Municipal Committee, Secretary of the CPC Hengyang Municipal Committee, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee, Director of the Propaganda Department, etc.The convenience and the convenient conditions for the formation of authority and status provide assistance to 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.
The Intermediate People's Court of Guilin City held that: the behavior of the defendant Zhang Wenxiong constituted the crime of accepting bribes and unidentified sources of huge amounts of property, and should be punished for several crimes according to law.Since Zhang Wenxiong was able to truthfully confess his crimes, plead guilty and repent, and actively returned 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.The court then made the above judgment.
Arrogant and domineering, known as Sister Tu, Zhang Wenxiong's wife likes to take part in projects
Since 2014, a sand and gravel transaction involving more than 1 billion yuan could have brought a lot of money to the Yueyang County Government with an annual fiscal revenue of about 800 million yuan. In the end, Zhang Wenxiong and his family intervened to intervene, and the amount was sharply reduced.reduce.
According to Caixin Weekly, Zhan Yi, director of Miluo River Sandstone Comprehensive Law Enforcement Bureau, confirmed to a Caixin reporter that Zhang Wenxiong and his wife Tu Aifang, who was originally from Yueyang County, were accused of holding tens of millions of shares in Haodong Sandstone.
Legal Evening News middot; Opinion News reporter saw on the China Judgment Documents website that a first-instance judgment on illegal mining by Chen Jixiang and others stated that on January 27, 2016, Haodong Rongwan Company was established, and Ma held 49% of the shares (of which ChengYong and Tu Aifang each hold 10% of the shares), and Haodong Sandstone Company holds 51% of the shares.However, the county government did not sign an agreement on the transfer of sand mining rights with Haodong Rongwan Company.The verdict actually proves from the side that the media's claim that Zhang Wenxiong's wife Tu Aifang participated in the sand mining business is true.
In fact, sand mining is only one of the businesses of Zhang Wenxiong and his wife. Many insiders revealed to Caixin reporter that Zhang Wenxiong traveled from Huaihua to Hengyang, and his wife Tu Aifang was suspected of intervening in municipal construction projects.Tu Aifang, known as Sister Tu, followed Zhang Wenxiong's official career and took part in projects all the way. Some Hunan officials said that she was arrogant and domineering, and she was very high-profile among the wives of senior officials.
According to Southern Weekend, from March 2008 to March 2016, Hengyang had three municipal Party secretaries, namely Zhang Wenxiong, Tong Mingqian and Li Yilong.Now, all three of them have fallen off the horse.The fall of Li Yilong involved Zhang Wenxiong, then member of the Standing Committee of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee and head of the Propaganda Department of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee—after his fall, Li Yilong exposed and denounced Zhang Wenxiong.The report also said that according to multiple insiders, Zhang Wenxiong has always had a good reputation in the officialdom and has made great contributions to the development of Hengyang, but his wife, Tu Aifang, went around taking over projects under the banner of Zhang Wenxiong.
According to the news released by the Hunan Insurance Regulatory Bureau, the bureau approved Tu Aifang's qualifications as the deputy general manager of the Changsha Central Branch of China Life Property Insurance Co., Ltd. on January 30, 2013.According to public information, Tu Aifang once held shares in Hunan Yongqing Environmental Protection Co., Ltd. and Hunan Haili Chemical Co., Ltd.
Hengyang Baishazhou Industrial Park was built in 2004 and opened in March 2006.In industrial parks, regardless of infrastructure construction or land acquisition by the company, many bidding projects have to greet Ms. Tu.A person close to the official circles in Hunan said that she collects money multilaterally, from all the companies participating in the auction, and finally collects a certain lsquo;point rsquo; commission from the bidding amount of the winning company.
The China Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision News reported on August 3 that in the Hunan dialect, the middleman with empty gloves and white wolves is vividly called the basket, and the project that is subcontracted layer by layer is called the basket project.And Zhang Wenxiong and his wife Tu Aifang are such typical examples.From Huaihua to Hengyang, Tu Aifang followed Zhang Wenxiong's official career experience to take over and participate in projects all the way.The two are good at dancing, one is in power, the other is collecting money, using power to open the way for money, carrying baskets in sand mining rights auctions, municipal engineering contracts, etc., saying hello to the boss's platform, and making huge profits.
