Bribery of over 103.9 million yuan! Jiang Guowen, former Party Secretary and Chairman of Harbin Municipal Association in Heilongjiang Province, was sentenced to life in the first instance
On the morning of August 29, 2023, the Intermediate People's Court of Hulunbuir City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region publicly announced the case of Jiang Guowen, former Party Secretary and Chairman of Harbin Municipal Association in Heilongjiang Province, accepting bribes. The defendant Jiang Guowen was sentenced to life imprisonment, deprived of political rights for life, and sentenced to confiscation of all personal property on charges of bribery; The confiscated, sealed, and frozen bribery proceeds and their fruits of Jiang Guowen shall be recovered and turned over to the national treasury.
After trial and investigation, it was found that from 2005 to 2019, the defendant Jiang Guowen took advantage of his positions as Deputy Secretary General of the People's Government of Heilongjiang Province, Standing Committee Member and Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of Harbin City, Deputy Secretary and Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of the Municipal Party Committee, Secretary of the Party Group and Chairman of the Municipal Political Consultative Conference, and provided assistance to relevant units and individuals in engineering contracting, project promotion, case execution, and job promotion, directly or through his relatives, illegally accepting gifts from others, totaling more than RMB 103.9 million.
The Intermediate People's Court of Hulunbuir City believes that the defendant Jiang Guowen's behavior constitutes the crime of bribery, and the amount of bribery is particularly huge; As a disciplinary inspection and supervision cadre who violates the law and seeks promotion and adjustment for others, it seriously infringes on the integrity of the official behavior of state officials, and has a negative impact; At the same time, after Jiang Guowen arrived at the case, he was able to voluntarily explain most of the bribery facts that the investigating authorities had not yet mastered, confess his guilt and repent, report others, which constituted significant meritorious service, and all the stolen funds and goods have been recovered, with statutory and discretionary lenient punishment circumstances. Taking into account the facts, nature, circumstances, and degree of harm to society of the above-mentioned crimes, the court has made the above judgment.