Vice ministerial level officials who have received lenient punishment and amassed billions of yuan have been sentenced to life, involving a rare criminal act. Vice Governor | Gong Jianhua | Life
After appearing in court for 8 months, the "tiger" who had amassed billions of yuan was sentenced to life imprisonment.
On August 22nd, Xiao Yi, former member of the Party Group and Vice Chairman of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, was publicly sentenced for bribery and abuse of power. The Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court sentenced Xiao Yi to life imprisonment, deprivation of political rights for life, and confiscation of all personal property for the crime of bribery. He was also sentenced to 6 years in prison for the crime of abuse of power, and decided to execute life imprisonment, deprivation of political rights for life, and confiscation of all personal property. The confiscated and detained bribery proceeds and their fruits of Xiao Yi shall be recovered in accordance with the law and turned over to the national treasury.
Supporting enterprises to carry out virtual currency mining
The court's trial found that from 2008 to 2021, the defendant Xiao Yi took advantage of his positions as Director of the Beijing Office of the People's Government of Jiangxi Province, Secretary of the Fuzhou Municipal Committee of Jiangxi Province, and Vice Chairman of the Jiangxi Provincial Political Consultative Conference to provide assistance to relevant units and individuals in engineering contracting, project development, and job promotion. He illegally received more than 125 million yuan in property, of which more than 57.82 million yuan has not yet been actually obtained.
Among Xiao Yi's many violations of discipline and law, the most well-known one is his support for enterprises to carry out virtual currency mining activities.
In November 2021, Xiao Yi was "double opened". At that time, the announcement revealed that Xiao Yi had abandoned his original mission, undermined the political principle of "two safeguards", and had serious deviations in implementing major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee. He violated the new development concept, abused his power to introduce and support enterprises to engage in virtual currency "mining" activities that did not meet the requirements of national industrial policies, illegally borrowed money for projects and engaged in construction, causing adverse effects. This statement has not yet appeared in the reports of other fallen high-ranking officials.
During the trial, the court found that from 2017 to 2021, Xiao Yi, while serving as the Secretary of the Fuzhou Municipal Party Committee, violated the new development concept and national regulations by providing assistance to enterprises engaged in virtual currency calculation and production business in terms of financial subsidies, financial support, and power security, resulting in significant losses to public property, national and people's interests. The circumstances were particularly serious and the impact was particularly severe.
China Newsweek once revealed in an article titled "The Remnants of Mining" After the fall of the "Digital Secretary" in Fuzhou, Jiangxi, that Xiao Yi vigorously promoted the digital economy during his tenure as the Secretary of the Fuzhou Municipal Party Committee, striving to make it a core competitiveness of Fuzhou. He focused on introducing Fuzhou Chuangshi Technology Co., Ltd., which claims to be the largest single data center in Asia and is the leader and business card of Fuzhou's digital economy. With the investigation of Xiao Yi, the company's appearance of engaging in virtual currency mining under the guise of a "digital economy" has gradually been exposed.
According to two civil rulings related to the company's contract dispute published on the China Judgment Document Network, the Fuzhou data center involved in the case actually uses equipment for high-performance computing to obtain virtual currency rewards, which is a high energy consuming industry not encouraged by the state.
In addition, Xiao Yi was also accused of seriously violating the Party's political discipline, organizational discipline, integrity discipline, work discipline, and life discipline, and did not restrain himself after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Specifically, he ignored the spirit of the Central Eight point Regulations, illegally accepted gifts and gifts, and accepted banquets that may affect the fair execution of official duties; Not reporting personal matters in accordance with regulations; Indulge and tacitly allow specific stakeholders to use their position to seek personal gain, engage in profit-making activities in violation of regulations, and engage in power and money transactions; Improper performance of responsibilities, arbitrary decision-making and implementation of major projects, interference and interference in judicial activities; Not valuing the construction of family ethics, being shameless and morally corrupt; Colluding with illegal private business owners, using power for personal gain, using their position to facilitate promotion, engineering contracting, project development, and other aspects for the benefit of others, and illegally accepting huge amounts of property.
Once had an intersection with multiple "tigers"
The Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court believes that Xiao Yi's behavior constitutes the crime of bribery and abuse of power, with a particularly large amount of bribery and serious abuse of power.
However, Xiao Yi also received a lighter punishment. The court pointed out that, given that some of Xiao Yi's bribery attempts were unsuccessful, he truthfully confessed his crimes upon arrival, voluntarily confessed the vast majority of the bribery facts that the investigating authorities had not yet mastered, confessed and repented, actively returned the stolen goods, and all the bribery proceeds and their fruits were seized, which has a statutory and discretionary lenient punishment situation. He can be punished leniently according to law.
Xiao Yi fell from his post in May 2021 and had an encounter with multiple "tigers" during his career.
According to public information, Xiao Yi was born in May 1962 and is from Ganzhou, Jiangxi. In 1996, he was appointed as the Deputy Secretary and Acting Mayor of Ruijin City. The following year, he became the Mayor and five years later, he became the Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee. During this period, Xiao Yi once conducted a "clean and helpful" selection for the families of leading cadres, and in the end, his wife ranked first in the vote.
In 2003, at the age of 41, Xiao Yi was promoted to the position of Deputy Mayor of Ganzhou City, becoming the youngest department level cadre in Ganzhou at that time. He began to partner with Pan Yiyang, former member of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Party Committee and former Vice Chairman of the Autonomous Region Government, who later fell from power. According to "Outlook on Clean Governance", Pan Yiyang, who had just arrived in Ganzhou as the Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, criticized Xiao Yi at a meeting. In addition, he also boasted that Xiao Yi, who also serves as the Deputy Mayor of Ganzhou and the Secretary of the Ruijin Municipal Party Committee, did not have a good balance between the two. But Xiao Yi quickly eased their relationship by opening up the door for Pan Yiyang's friend to do business. The following year, Xiao Yi became a member of the Standing Committee of the Ganzhou Municipal Committee.
In 2007, Xiao Yi was appointed as the Deputy Director of the Beijing Office of the Jiangxi Provincial Government. The following year, he became a full-time employee and became the Deputy Secretary General of the Provincial Government in 2009. Six years later, he succeeded Gong Jianhua as the Secretary of the Fuzhou Municipal Party Committee. Gong Jianhua served as the Secretary of the Fuzhou Municipal Party Committee from 2011 to 2014, and later became a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee. He successively held positions such as Secretary General of the Provincial Party Committee, Secretary of the Nanchang Municipal Party Committee, and Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress. In November 2021, six months after Xiao Yi fell from his horse, Gong Jianhua was investigated.
After the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, four tigers fell from power in Jiangxi Province. In addition to Xiao Yi and Gong Jianhua, there were also former Vice Governor Li Yihuang and former Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress Shi Wenqing. In March 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.
