Vice ministerial level officials who had worked with many fallen high-ranking officials such as Qin Guangrong and Bai Enpei were sentenced to 13 years in prison shortly after stepping down from their positions. | Huang Yi | Qin Guangrong
After appearing in court for more than two months, Huang Yi, a former member of the Party Group and Vice Chairman of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
On July 4th, the first trial of the bribery case involving Huang Yi, former member of the Party Group and Vice Chairman of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, was publicly announced. Huang Yi was sentenced to 13 years in prison and fined 3 million yuan. The property and fruits obtained from his bribery were also recovered in accordance with the law and turned over to the national treasury.
The court found that from 2001 to 2022, Huang Yi took advantage of his positions as Secretary of the Baoshan Municipal Party Committee, Secretary General of the Yunnan Provincial Government, Standing Committee Member and Minister of the United Front Work Department of the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee, and Vice Chairman of the Yunnan Provincial Political Consultative Conference to provide assistance to relevant units and individuals in engineering contracting, project approval, enterprise operation, and other matters. He illegally received property from others, totaling more than RMB 34.95 million.
The Chongqing Intermediate People's Court, which tried this case, believed that Huang Yi's behavior constituted the crime of bribery, with a particularly large amount. At the same time, the court also revealed that Huang Yi truthfully confessed his crimes after arriving at the case, voluntarily confessed to some of the bribery crimes that the supervisory authorities had not yet mastered, pleaded guilty and repented, actively returned the stolen goods, and all the stolen funds and goods have been recovered. There are legal and discretionary circumstances for lenient punishment, and he can be given a lenient punishment according to law.
Huang Yi just stepped down from his position as Vice Chairman of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in January last year, and was reported to have been dismissed on March 24th. He, who is 65 years old this year, has been working in Yunnan since he started working. In his early years, he was a rural educated youth in Longchuan County, Yunnan. Later, he entered the Tea Department of the Horticulture Department of Yunnan Agricultural University to study and stayed on as a teacher. In 1989, he was transferred from the Deputy Secretary of the Party Branch of the Horticulture Department of Yunnan Agricultural University to the Deputy Mayor of Ruili City. Afterwards, he served as the Deputy Governor of Dehong Prefecture, Deputy Director of the Yunnan Provincial Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, Secretary of the Baoshan Municipal Party Committee, Secretary General and Party Member of the Yunnan Provincial Government, and Party Secretary of the Provincial Government Office. In 2006, at the age of 48, he became a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and served as the Minister of the United Front Work Department. In 2017, he served as the Vice Chairman of the Provincial Political Consultative Conference until his resignation in January last year.
On August 30th last year, Huang Yi was "double opened". The report shows that Huang Yi has committed multiple violations of discipline and law, including losing his ideals and beliefs, being indifferent to political consciousness, seriously deviating from the Party's united front work principles, policies, and principles, seriously polluting the local political ecology, causing adverse political effects, and resisting organizational scrutiny; Ignoring the spirit of the eight point regulations of the central government, accepting gifts for a long time, accepting banquets that may affect the fair performance of official duties, and illegally entering and exiting private clubs; Loss of organizational principles, failure to report personal matters in accordance with regulations, and failure to truthfully explain issues during organizational conversations and inquiries; Greed inflation, obtaining large returns through private lending, and engaging in profit-making activities in violation of regulations; Taking advantage of one's position to seek benefits for others in personnel arrangements, engineering contracting, project approval, and illegally accepting huge amounts of property.
Huang Yi has worked with several high-ranking officials in Yunnan Province. When he joined the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee in 2006, the team members also included Bai Enpei, Qin Guangrong, Yang Chongyong, Zhang Tianxin, Cao Jianfang, and others. Qiu He, who later served as the Deputy Secretary of the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee, also joined the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee in 2007, succeeding Yang Chongyong as the Secretary of the Kunming Municipal Party Committee. From 2014 to 2019, Zhang Tianxin, Bai Enpei, Qiu He, Yang Chongyong, Cao Jianfang, Qin Guangrong, and others were investigated successively.
