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After many trials, Zhang Zurong, the chairman of the Macau SAR (hereinafter referred to as the Trade Promotion Bureau), has ushered in the latest progress.

On July 4th, the Office of the Court of the Final Appeal of the Macau SAR issued a release of the procuratorate after hearing the collegiate panel of the Macau SAR Intermediate Court, and some of the appeal reasons for Zhang Zurong, and the judgment: Zhang Zurong violated a number"Behavioral crime", a number of "crimes of cleaning money", and multiple "information incorrect crimes".The above -mentioned crime and punishment, Zhang Zurong was sentenced to 8 years in prison for a total of 8 years.

Zhang Zurong Picture Source: Screenshot of the Web Page of the News Bureau of the Macau SAR Government

Suspected of receiving illegal interests through family members and mistresses

The Zhang Zurong case dates back to 2018.On October 26 of that year, the Macau Special Administrative Affairs Office (hereinafter referred to as the ICAC) announced that the chairman of the former Trade Promotion Bureau Administrative Management Committee and others were transferred to judicial crimes in the application of real estate investment immigration, major investment immigration and technical immigration applications.organ.

On July 5, 2019, the ICAC announced the completion of the investigation of the former trade promotion officials.Investigation of the ICAC found that a couple in Macau and others also used more than 50 companies that opened or controld or controlled from 2010 to 2018 to apply for "major investment immigration such as fictional investment projects, professional experience or employment relationships."Or" Technical Immigration "provides services.The gang charges huge amounts of fees from applicants who do not meet the qualifications of immigration in the name of "agency fees", and the amount involved exceeds 10 million yuan.

What is the relationship between the former trade promotion?The investigation of the ICAC found that 20 % to 30 % of the agency fees are included in the name of "(formerly) Council for the Promotion of Trade Promotion" or "consultant fee".After investigation, it was the former chairman of the trade promotion and the gang colluded with each other to provide illegal assistance for the immigration application of its agency, and to promote the application for false immigration applications.At the same time, the chairman of the former trade promoted bureau through his spouse, daughter and mistress for a long time received illegal benefits such as money, job positions, and company shares provided by the gang.

The Macau Daily WeChat public account reported in August 2020 that Zhang Zurong and the suspect of immigrants Wu Guoshou have long been illegal.Zhang Zurong's wife and daughter worked at Wu Guoshou's company. The two did not have a job trace, and they were not enough to go to work.Zhang Zurong will leak secrets to Wu Guoshou gang through her daughter.In addition, Wu Guoshou also sent cash to Zhang Zurong in the form of "Li is", and "sending dry stocks" to Zhang Zurong's daughter and sending money to Zhang Zurong's lover.

After many judgments, the sentence has increased to 8 years

Subsequently, Zhang Zurong's corruption case entered the court's trial stage and opened a long litigation tug -of -war.

On April 27, 2020, the case was tried in the junior court of Macau Special Economic Zone.In the past six months, on October 9, the Fifth Criminal Court of the Primary Court of the Macau Special Economic Zone announced the judgment on the case.The crime of "crime of cleaning money" is not established, and one "crime of violating confidentiality" and three "incorrect property information" is established.The number of crimes and punishment was sentenced to two years of actual imprisonment.

The case has changed several afterwards.According to the Macau Daily, in the middle of 2021, the Macau Special Zone Intermediate Court overturned the charges of Zhang Zurong's leakage, and only sentenced to 11 months in prison for incorrectly in incorrect property data, and was suspended.However, the allegations of "illegal behavior of accepting bribery", "abuse of power" and "cleaning money", which were released from the original trial, were issued back to the new support panel for the junior court for re -trial.

After the trial hearing was over, the collegiate panel was referee on May 20, 2022: Zhang Zurong violated 1 "crime of bribery and illegal behavior", three "crimes of abuse of power", and three "crimes of cleaning money".The three "information incorrect crimes" were sentenced to 5 years of actual imprisonment.

For this verdict, the prosecutor believes that Zhang Zurong's sentence is too light; Zhang Zurong said that he has been detained for more than one year, and the fine penalty is enough to meet the needs of general prevention and special prevention.imprisonment.Therefore, the representatives of the Macau Special Economic Zone Procuratorate and Zhang Zurong of the Procuratorate of the Criminal Court in the Primary Court expressed their dissatisfaction and appealed to the Macau Intermediate Court.

Until July 4 this year, the latest judgment results were released.Macau SAR Intermediate Court of Court stated that Zhang Zurong kept silent in the trial hearing, and did not deny the crime until the end of the trial.Although Zhang Zurong was the first offender, he jointly committed crimes with others. He had a high degree of intention and long time span.As a senior civil servant with an average monthly salary of RMB 70,000 (about 63,000 yuan), Zhang Zurong knows the law and violates the law, which seriously hurts the social legal order, the integrity and justice of the civil servant group, and social fairness.

The collegial panel decided that Zhang Zurong's bribery was sentenced to four crimes of bribery, and the penalty period was sentenced to improving the crime of cleaning money.Several crimes were punished, and Zhang Zurong was sentenced to 8 years in prison.

Reporter | Kong Zesi

Edit | He Xiaotao Wen Du Hengfeng

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