(Beijing Comprehensive News) Zhou Jiangyong, the former secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, was sentenced to death for nearly 200 million yuan for bribes, and was implemented for two years.
According to CCTV news reports, the court found out that from 2001 to 2021, Zhou Jiangyong directly or illegally received more than 182 million yuan (RMB, the same below, about 34 million yuan) through his relatives.
The Intermediate People's Court of Luzhou City, Anhui Province, publicly sentenced Zhou Jiangyong to bribery on Tuesday (July 25).The court pointed out that Zhou Jiangyong used the convenience and authority of more than a dozen positions in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province to help people help people in terms of engineering construction, project contracting, land acquisition, and case treatment.
The court believes that Zhou Jiangyong's behavior constitutes a crime of bribery, and the amount of bribery is particularly huge, which has suffered particularly major losses to the interests of the country and the people, and it should be severely punished according to law.
In view of the truthful confession of Zhou Jiangyong after the case, he took the initiative to explain the facts of the crime of bribery that the supervisory organs have not yet mastered, pleaded guilty and actively refunded the stolen money.He was sentenced to death, executed for two years, and deprived him of his political rights for life, confiscating all personal property.
Agence France -Presse pointed out that in China, if the criminals were not sentenced to other crimes during their death, they would usually be reduced to life imprisonment.
Zhou Jiangyong was investigated in 2021. The British Financial Times quoted public information and sources in 2022 that a company owned by Ant Group bought two plots in Hangzhou at a discount in 2019.Two mobile payment companies held by my brother.
