The first trial of Zhang Bencai's bribery case has been held, and he is charged with bribery of 48.32 million yuan for work | Director | Zhang Bencai
On August 31st, the Xiamen Intermediate People's Court held a public trial of the bribery case of Zhang Bencai, former Party Secretary and Prosecutor General of the Shanghai People's Procuratorate. Zhang Bencai pleaded guilty and repented in court, and the court announced an adjournment and a scheduled verdict.
The People's Procuratorate of Xiamen City, Fujian Province, has filed a lawsuit accusing that from 2005 to 2020, the defendant Zhang Bencai took advantage of his position as Secretary and President of the Party Committee of the Procuratorate Daily, Director of the Film and Television Center of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, Director of the Office of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, Secretary of the Party Group and Prosecutor General of the Shanghai People's Procuratorate, and provided assistance to relevant units and individuals in matters such as land development, enterprise operation, relocation, and work transfer. He directly or through others illegally received property, totaling more than RMB 48.32 million. The procuratorial organs have requested that Zhang Bencai be held criminally responsible for the crime of bribery.
Zhang Bencai was born in May 1967 in Linyi, Shandong, and is a second level prosecutor. After graduating from the Chinese Language and Literature major at Shandong University in 1990, he entered the highest procuratorial work. In 1991, he joined the China Procuratorial Daily and served as a clerk, editor, deputy director of the Literature and Art Department, assistant editor in chief, and director of the editorial office. In 1999, he was appointed as the Minister of Propaganda of the Political Department of the Supreme People's Procuratorate. In 2004, he was appointed as the chief editor of the Procuratorial Daily, executive deputy director and director of the Film and Television Center of the Supreme People's Procuratorate. The following year, he was appointed as the president, party secretary, chief editor, and director of the Film and Television Center of the Supreme People's Procuratorate. In 2011, he was appointed as the director of the Planning and Financial Equipment Bureau of the Supreme People's Procuratorate. In 2013, he was appointed as the director of the Office of the. In January 2016, Zhang Bencai was appointed as the Prosecutor General and Party Secretary of the Shanghai People's Procuratorate. He was investigated on June 1, 2022.
Last September, Zhang Bencai was "double opened". According to a report from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission, Zhang Bencai lost his ideals and beliefs, abandoned his duties and missions, did not take responsibility or take action in his own work, failed to fulfill his main responsibility for comprehensively and strictly governing the Party, engaged in superstitious activities, and opposed organizational review; Violating organizational principles, failing to report personal matters in accordance with regulations, using power to arrange work for multiple people, and corrupting the selection and employment culture of the employing unit; Indulge and tacitly allow relatives to use their official influence for personal gain; Violating regulations and interfering in judicial activities, disrupting judicial fairness; Law enforcement violations, abuse of power for personal gain, taking advantage of one's position to seek benefits for others in project development, business operations, etc., and illegally accepting huge amounts of property. Serious violation of the Party's political discipline, organizational discipline, integrity discipline, work discipline, and life discipline.