According to People's Daily Online, on February 3, the Intermediate People's Court of Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province publicly sentenced Peng Qingguo, former member of the Standing Committee of the Tengzhou Municipal Party Committee, former secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, and former director of the Tengzhou Social Conflict Investigation Center Office, for corruption, misappropriation of public funds, bribery, and bribery., sentenced defendant Peng Qingguo to death for corruption, suspended for two years, deprived of political rights for life, and confiscated all personal property; sentenced to 12 years for embezzlement of public funds; five years for accepting bribes, and finedRMB 300,000; Sentenced to six years in prison for bribery, decided to execute the death penalty with a two-year reprieve, deprived of political rights for life, and confiscated all personal property.
The trial found that: from April 2004 to May 2013, the defendant Peng Qingguo took advantage of his position to embezzle and defraud more than 146.614 million yuan of public funds; embezzled 64.8 million yuan of public funds for profit-making activities;, the defendant Peng Qingguo took advantage of his position to seek benefits for others, and asked for and accepted bribes from others three times, totaling more than 1.429 million yuan; from 2004 to 2007, the defendant Peng Qingguo made improperBenefit, he gave bank cards, deposit receipts and other property to others three times, totaling 2.1 million yuan.
The Zaozhuang Intermediate People's Court held that the defendant Peng Qingguo, as a state employee, took advantage of his position to embezzle and defraud public property, the amount of which was extremely huge, and his behavior constituted a crime of embezzlement;If a huge amount is not returned, his behavior constitutes the crime of misappropriation of public funds;
Taking advantage of the convenience of one's position to seek benefits for others, extorting and illegally accepting other people's property, the amount is huge, and his behavior has constituted the crime of accepting bribes; in order to seek illegitimate benefits, giving property to state functionaries, the circumstances are serious, and his behavior has constituted the crime of offering bribes.Since Peng Qingguo was able to truthfully confess the criminal facts of embezzlement of public funds after being brought to justice, all the stolen money involved in the case has been recovered, and he may be given a lighter punishment as appropriate according to law.The court then made the above judgment.
According to a public resume, Peng Qingguo was born in December 1967 and is a native of Tengzhou. His official career has been in Tengzhou.He once served as director of the Tengzhou Municipal Justice Bureau and deputy secretary of the Tengzhou Municipal Law Committee.
In March 2015, the People's Procuratorate of Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province decided to prosecute Peng Qingguo to the Intermediate People's Court of Zaozhuang City on suspicion of corruption, accepting bribes, embezzling public funds, and offering bribes.
According to Tengzhou Daily, on April 10, 2013, the 2013 Tengzhou City Court Work and Anti-corruption Construction Conference was held to commend the advanced and deploy 2013 work and anti-corruption construction tasks.Peng Qingguo attended the meeting and delivered a speech.
Peng Qingguo pointed out that the municipal courts should enhance their service awareness, take law enforcement and handling cases as the basic way to serve the overall situation, severely crack down on criminal activities such as disrupting public security, infringing on the interests of the masses, and disrupting market order in accordance with the law, innovate working methods, improve the progress of trials, and ensure the quality of trials.efficiency continues to improve.
It is necessary to establish an image of integrity and self-discipline, strictly enforce work disciplines, strengthen education and supervision, and ensure that judges are honest, courts are clean, and the judiciary is clear.At the same time, do a good job in team building, carry out in-depth education on party spirit, party style and party discipline, strictly enforce political discipline, and strive to build a team of judges that are fair, clean, civilized and efficient, and promote the development of various tasks.
The political affairs minister noticed that an important official in Tengzhou City had been sacked before.In September 2013, Wang Gang, the former secretary of the Shizhong District Committee of Zaozhuang City, was sentenced to double imprisonment for serious violations of discipline and law.After investigation, Wang Gang took advantage of his position to seek benefits for others, accepted huge amounts of money and materials, embezzled public funds, and accepted gifts.
Wang Gang came to work in Tengzhou City in 1997. He has successively served as member of the Standing Committee of the Tengzhou Municipal Committee, secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, head of the Organization Department, deputy secretary of the Tengzhou Municipal Committee, and mayor of Tengzhou City.
According to the official website of Tengzhou City, Tengzhou City is located in the south of Shandong Province. It is a county under the administration of Shandong Province and managed by Zaozhuang City. It has a total area of 1,495 square kilometers and a total population of 1.7 million. It is the most populous county-level city in Shandong Province.In 2016, Zaozhuang City’s GDP was 214.263 billion yuan, of which Tengzhou City’s GDP was 106.48 billion yuan.
In the 2018 list of the top 100 counties in terms of comprehensive strength published by Xinhuanet, Tengzhou City ranked 26th in the country and 3rd in Shandong Province.
