A deputy ministerial level cadre who was once criticized for "calculating multiple ways to pursue personal fame and fortune" and for 26 years of corruption was sentenced to 15 years in prison for convenience | Xu Baoyi | fame and fortune
After nearly two years of falling off the horse, the 65 year old "tiger" Xu Ming was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
On June 20th, Xu Ming, a former member of the Party Group and Deputy Director of the State Grain Administration, was publicly sentenced in the first instance of the bribery and bribery case using his influence. Xu Ming was sentenced to 15 years in prison and fined 4.1 million yuan.
Xu Ming was born in January 1958 in Fengyang, Anhui. He had experience in joining the military in his early years. Since 1987, he has served as a cadre in the Personnel Department of the National Economic Commission and the National Development and Reform Commission. Since then, he has served in multiple ministries and commissions, including the Director of the Foreign Investment Department, Director of the Foreign Investment Enterprise Department, and Deputy Director of the Foreign Economic Coordination Department of the former State Economic and Trade Commission. He has also served as the Deputy Director, Director, and Director of the Comprehensive Department of the Market System Construction Department of the Ministry of Commerce.
In 2008, Xu Ming parachuted to Chongqing and served as the Deputy Secretary General and Director of the Research Office of the Municipal Party Committee. Two years later, he joined the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and successively held positions such as Secretary General of the Municipal Party Committee and Director of the Research Office, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Municipal Directly Affiliated Organs, Secretary of the Party Working Committee and Director of the Management Committee of Liangjiang New Area. In March 2013, Xu Ming left Chongqing and became the former Deputy Director of the State Grain Administration.
The court found out that Xu Ming's corrupt behavior began in 1995 and continued until 2021, lasting for 26 years, until the year of his downfall, when he was still accumulating wealth. He provided assistance to relevant units and individuals in project contracting, business approval, case handling, and personnel adjustments due to his convenience in his position and the formation of his authority and status. He illegally received more than RMB 512 million in property, of which RMB 8.9 million had not been actually obtained as of the incident. In 2021, after resigning, Xu Ming also took advantage of his previous positions as a member of the Standing Committee and Secretary General of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee, and other positions to provide assistance in appealing cases to others through the actions of other national staff members. He received a sum of 1.2 million yuan.
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The court believes that Xu Ming's behavior constitutes the crime of bribery and the crime of bribery through the use of influence, with a particularly large amount of bribery and a huge amount of bribery through the use of influence. Considering that some of Xu Ming's bribery attempts were unsuccessful, and he used his influence to commit bribery as a form of voluntary surrender. After being brought to justice, he voluntarily confessed to the majority of the bribery facts that the supervisory authorities had not yet mastered, pleaded guilty and repented, actively returned the stolen goods, and all the proceeds and fruits of the crime have been confiscated. He may be given a lighter punishment for his bribery crime, and the punishment for his bribery crime of using his influence may be reduced.
Xu Ming fell from the party in July 2021 and was expelled from the party in January 2022. Notification refers to the loss of ideals and beliefs, abandonment of original aspirations and missions, unfaithfulness to the Party, reckless discussion of the Party Central Committee's major policies, and enthusiasm for superstitious activities; Violating the spirit of the central eight point regulations, illegally accepting property from private enterprise owners, illegally entering and exiting private clubs, and accepting banquets; Not reporting personal matters in accordance with regulations; Using the influence of their position to seek benefits for their subsidiary business activities; Moral corruption; To pursue personal fame and fortune through multiple calculations, using public power as a tool for personal gain, engaging in power rent-seeking, utilizing the convenience and influence of one's position to seek profits for others in business operations, project contracting, promotion, and other aspects, and illegally accepting huge amounts of property.
In 2021, when Xu Ming fell from power, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission deployed a special campaign to crack down on corruption in the field of grain procurement and sales nationwide. A group of grain storage "shuo rat" were investigated and dealt with, including Xu Baoyi, former deputy general manager of China Grain Reserve Management Group Co., Ltd., Zhang Wufeng, former member of the Party Group of the National Development and Reform Commission, and former director of the State Grain and Material Reserve Bureau, among other central management cadres. Just last week, Xu Baoyi was publicly sentenced in the first instance of the bribery, dereliction of duty by state-owned company personnel, and insider trading case. Xu Baoyi was sentenced to 17 years in prison and fined 1.301 million yuan.