Deputy ministerial level trial position accused of accepting bribes of over 83.61 million yuan, "privately sharing the honor of the Party and the country" | Individual | Bribery
After more than 10 months of being prosecuted by the procuratorial organs, Gong Jianhua, former member of the Party Group and Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Jiangxi Provincial People's Congress, appeared in court for trial.
On June 15th, the Intermediate People's Court of Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province, publicly held a first instance trial of Gong Jianhua's bribery case. Gong Jianhua pleaded guilty and repented in court, and the court announced a date for sentencing.
Gong Jianhua was born in 1962 in Nanchang County, Jiangxi Province. He has been working in Jiangxi for nearly 40 years and has served in various places such as the Jiangxi Provincial Agriculture Office, Nanchang, Yichun, and Fuzhou. He has held positions such as Deputy Secretary of the Nanchang Municipal Party Committee, Mayor of Yichun, and Secretary of the Fuzhou Municipal Party Committee. In 2014, he was appointed as a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and was promoted to the deputy ministerial level. The following year, he was appointed as the Secretary of the Nanchang Municipal Party Committee. In 2017, he was appointed as the Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress, and he voluntarily submitted to the case in 2021.
From the accusations made by the People's Procuratorate of Zhangzhou City, it can be found that Gong Jianhua's corrupt behavior runs through his entire tenure in the local area. Since serving as Deputy Secretary of the Nanchang Municipal Party Committee, Executive Deputy Mayor, and Leader of the Municipal Planning and Land Operation Leading Group, he has been accumulating wealth in Nanchang, Yichun, Fuzhou and other places, as well as during his tenure as Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress.
When Gong Jianhua was appointed as the Secretary of the Nanchang Municipal Party Committee in 2015, he also stated at a leadership cadres meeting that "those who come to give money must be money collectors, those who speak of right and wrong must be wrong people, and those who come to build relationships must be opportunists." Anyone, including their family members, who uses their banner to do private things or helps their family members engage in personal affairs must be strictly prohibited, and anyone who violates the discipline will be held accountable according to discipline.
However, in the end, Gong Jianhua was accused by the procuratorial organs of using the convenience of his position, power, and status to provide assistance to individuals in matters such as land listing, coordinating land prices, promotion, and project development, directly or through his relatives and friends, illegally accepting property from the aforementioned individuals, totaling more than RMB 83.61 million.
Gong Jianhua was the fourth "tiger" investigated in Jiangxi Province after the 19th National Congress. Just six months before Gong Jianhua surrendered, Xiao Yi, former vice chairman of the Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, was investigated. After Gong Jianhua was transferred from the Secretary of the Fuzhou Municipal Party Committee to the Standing Committee Member and Secretary General of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee in 2014, it was Xiao Yi who succeeded him. On March 29th of this year, Yin Meigen, Deputy Secretary and Deputy Director of the Party Group of the Standing Committee of the Jiangxi Provincial People's Congress, was investigated. He took over as the Secretary of the Nanchang Municipal Party Committee from Gong Jianhua at the end of 2016.
Last May, Gong Jianhua was "double opened". In his briefing by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, some statements were not common. The notice pointed out that Gong Jianhua lost his ideals and beliefs, abandoned his duties and missions, deviated from the "two safeguards", organized "small circles" and "small groups", engaged in the "seven haves", and polluted the political ecology.
Specifically, it includes: "Some people disregard the political discipline and rules of the Party, engage in favoritism and exclusion of dissent for their so-called career and influence, engage in cliques and cliques, fabricate anonymous false accusations and rumors, buy people's hearts and boost votes, make official promises and celebrate, act on their own, act against the will of others, and engage in reckless discussions with the central government.".
At the same time, Gong Jianhua was also accused of "inadequate implementation of the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee on trade union work, private operation of the selection of model workers, and private exchange of honors from the Party and the country.". After serving as the Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress in 2017, Gong Jianhua also served as the Chairman of the Provincial Federation of Trade Unions, and it had been more than four years since he was dismissed.
In addition, Gong Jianhua also violated the spirit of the Central Eight point Regulations, had serious thoughts of privilege, was greedy for pleasure, and accepted banquets that may affect the fair execution of official duties; Seeking benefits for others in the selection and appointment of cadres, employee recruitment, and other aspects; Inquiring about central inspection and disciplinary review matters, violating regulations and interfering in judicial activities, etc; Engaged in power rent-seeking and family style corruption, using their position to facilitate others in land transfer, project development, and other areas for profit, and illegally accepting huge amounts of property.
In recent years, several provincial and ministerial level officials have been accused of committing "family style corruption", such as Shi Wenqing, former deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Jiangxi Provincial People's Congress, Zhang Qi, former member of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee and former secretary of the Haikou Municipal Party Committee, and Zhou Jiangyong, former member of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and former secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee.