Recently, China's Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision News published an article titled "Debt owed due to corruption will eventually be repaid-a perspective on the phenomenon of retired officials being sacked".The article pointed out that there are two main situations in which retired officials are investigated and dealt with: one is that they used power for personal gain while in office, and their problems were exposed after retirement;
The editor sorted out and found that, as previously reported by the Guanhai Jieju Bureau, it is not uncommon for people to go through investigations.At the same time, there are some typical cases of officials who did not commit crimes while on the job, but did not rest after retirement, and were sentenced for crimes.
Worry about his son and commit crimes of bribery and fraudulent purchase of foreign exchange after retirement
Zhao Shaolin used to be the former member of the Standing Committee and Secretary-General of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee. As early as November 2006, Zhao Shaolin retired at the age of 60.Later, he served as the first vice chairman of the China Aging Development Foundation.According to media reports, after retirement, Zhao Shaolin worked as a consultant in Zhao Jin's company to help his son's business empire.He often appears in Zhao Jin's company and attends some important meetings.If the financial expenditure exceeds 500,000, it must be signed by the old man.
Since then, due to problems such as illegally increasing floors and arbitrarily expanding floor area ratios in many of Zhao Jin's real estate projects, Zhao Jin has been struggling to deal with problems, and Zhao Shaolin, who is over 60 years old, is also worried about his son's career.
In June 2014, Zhao Shaolin's son Zhao Jin was investigated.After his son's accident, Zhao Shaolin personally went to Tianjin to clean up the mess, implemented a layoff plan, and left the backbone, hoping to make a comeback. He also personally appointed the temporary leaders of Nanjing, Tianjin, and Jinan.As a result, 4 months later, he was also investigated.
On August 14, 2015, Zhao Shaolin was expelled from the party; on May 18, 2017, the Intermediate People's Court of Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province publicly sentenced Zhao Shaolin, former member of the Standing Committee and Secretary-General of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee, on the case of bribery and fraudulent purchase of foreign exchange by the defendant Zhao Shaolin.Sentenced to three years in prison for the crime of bribery by the unit; two years in prison and a fine of RMB 15 million for the crime of fraudulently purchasing foreign exchange. It was decided to implement a fixed-term imprisonment of four years and a fine of RMB 15 million.
The court found that from 2007 to 2014, when the retired Zhao Shaolin acted as the general counsel of the company actually controlled by his son Zhao Jin, he and Zhao Jin asked others to help the company's illegal real estate projects, and bribed RMB 4,448,950.and helped Zhao Jin to defraud the approval documents of relevant authorities by forging foreign trade contracts and fabricating overseas payment methods, which were used to fraudulently purchase foreign exchange and remit it overseas, totaling more than 41.7 million U.S. dollars.
The amount of bribes received from villas after retirement is 2.5 times that before retirement
At the end of last year, Guo Deqing, former chairman of the Baiyin CPPCC, was finally sentenced to 14 years in prison.The indictment alleges that before retirement, Guo Deqing took advantage of his position to seek benefits for others while serving as secretary of the Yongdeng County Party Committee and chairman of the Baiyin CPPCC before his retirement, and received a total of 3.33 million yuan in cash from 12 trustees.After retiring, he took advantage of the convenience formed by his original power and status to illegally accept other people's property and seek illegitimate benefits for others. He successively accepted money and goods from five trustees including Ma Mou, equivalent to RMB 8,377,510.
The verdict shows that after Guo Deqing retired in 2008, he served as a supervisor of Zhongke Company, and through the coordination of officials from the Lanzhou Development and Reform Commission and the Land and Resources Bureau at that time, the relevant procedures for the Zhongke Ginza project were handled.In order to thank, Ma bought a villa for him in early 2009, worth RMB 3,047,510. Guo Deqing paid a deposit of 20,000 yuan, and Ma paid the remaining house payment of 3,027,510 yuan.
In 2010, Guo Deqing greeted the then head of Gaolan County and other people to help enterprises obtain land and loans, and seek benefits for others.In the second half of 2011, Guo Deqing illegally received 100,000 yuan in cash from others at his home in Lanzhou, and then illegally received a total of 1.5 million yuan from Zhou X through transfers three times in 2012, 2013, and 2014.
On May 21, 2011, Li Shuqin, chairman of Lanzhou Offshore Oil Company (handled in another case), was arrested on suspicion of producing counterfeit and inferior products and loan fraud.On July 1 of the same year, in order to release Li Shuqin on bail pending trial, Li Bin, the son of Li Shuqin, approached Zhao Ming (Guo Deqing’s son-in-law) through a related person and asked his father-in-law to help release Li Shuqin on bail pending trial. Guo Deqing expressed his willingness to helpBut it needs 2 million yuan.By greeting relevant personnel, Li was successfully released on bail pending trial on November 30.In the same year, Guo Deqing illegally received 2 million yuan in cash from Li Bin through Zhao Ming at home.
In addition, he also provided assistance to his cousin in real estate development, land acquisition, project contracting, and project fund allocation by means of greetings, and illegally received 1.15 million yuan in cash from Guo many times.
In the end, Guo Deqing was punished for several crimes and sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Using his daughter-in-law's influence to bribe the former director of the Water Conservancy Bureau and was sentenced after retirement
According to the Procuratorate Daily, Wang Qunli, who was born in Qinzhou City in 1944, was the director of Qinzhou Water Conservancy Bureau and retired in 2004.After resigning, Wang Qunli did not lose his job, but often used his remaining power to collect money.
According to investigations, from 2010 to 2013, Wang Qunli's daughter-in-law Li Mou served as the head of the water conservancy construction management station of the Qinzhou Water Conservancy Bureau, and served as the owner's representative and judge for the bidding of pipe materials and equipment for rural drinking water safety projects in Qinzhou City.Wang Qunli took advantage of Li's position to seek benefits for others, and received a total of 400,000 yuan in benefits from pipe dealer Gong for five times.After receiving the stolen money, Wang Qunli gave 80,000 yuan to his daughter-in-law, instructing his daughter-in-law to take care of Gong during the bid evaluation process, so that the company to which Gong belonged was able to win the bid smoothly.
In the end, the court ruled that the defendant Wang Qunli had committed the crime of taking bribes by taking advantage of his influence, and was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for two years, and fined RMB 200,000.
