Former Shenzhen Mayor Chen Ruui was sentenced to life in the first instance of bribery

Chen Ruui, former mayor of Shenzhen, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the first instance of bribery.

According to CCTV news reports, the Nanning Intermediate People's Court of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region publicly sentenced the former party group and deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial People's Congress to the former party group and deputy director Chen Ruui on Tuesday (August 6).

The court sentenced Chen Ruui to a life imprisonment for bribery, deprived of political rights for life, and confiscated all personal property; he was recovered by the property and interest of the bribery and paid the state treasury.

After hearing, it was found that from 2003 to 2022, Chen Ruui used the director of the Guangzhou Municipal Construction Committee, the secretary of the party group of the Guangzhou Municipal Government, a member of the party group of the Guangzhou Municipal Government, the Standing Committee of the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee, and the deputy mayor, GuangzhouDeputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, Secretary of the Zhongshan Municipal Party Committee, Deputy Secretary and Mayor of the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee, and the convenience conditions of the members of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial People's Congress and deputy director, and the convenience conditions formed by the authorities and status.Help for engineering contracting, project promotion, corporate operations and other matters, directly or directly or via others' illegal acceptance of property, a total of more than 108 million yuan (RMB, about S $ 2.4 million).

Nanning Intermediate People's Court believes that Chen Rui's behavior constitutes a crime of bribery.Chen Ruui has a huge amount of bribes and should be punished according to law.In view of the attempted bribery departments, after the case, they truthfully confessed their crimes, and took the initiative to explain the facts of the part of the bribery that the case handling agency had not yet mastered, pleaded guilty, and actively refunded the stolen goods.The court made the above judgment.

Chen Rui, 62, has been farming in Guangzhou for 27 years. He has served as the deputy director and director of the Guangzhou Municipal Construction Committee and secretary general of the Guangzhou Municipal Government.Chang, deputy secretary of the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee, Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee.

In 2016, he was transferred to the secretary of the Zhongshan Municipal Party Committee, and served as the deputy secretary and mayor of the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee the following year, ranking among the deputy ministry level.

In April 2021, Chen Ruui resigned as the mayor of Shenzhen and was transferred to a member of the Party Group of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial People's Congress.Drop a horse, was "double -opened" in December (the Communist Party of China was expelled from the Communist Party of China and public office).

When Chen Ruui was notified to fall off the horse, the person familiar with the Guangzhou urban construction system told Caixin.com that Guangzhou has been eliminated from the "bad tail building" since 2002. Chen Ruui is responsible for this work for more than ten years, and this is exactGuangzhou's official corruption area.