Chen Yiguo, a government official, struggled for three months and fell from grace, only to discover that he had befriended political fraudsters after being investigated by the organization. Discipline | Issues | Politics
On July 24th, Hubei reported four typical cases of serious violations of political discipline and rules. This includes Chen Yiguo, former Party Secretary and Chairman of Hubei Changjiang Publishing and Media Group Co., Ltd. and Changjiang Publishing and Media Co., Ltd., who implemented the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee to discount, engage in flexibility, and make friends with 'political fraudsters' in an attempt to evade organizational investigations.
The notice mentioned that from 2017 to 2022, Chen Yiguo, then Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Hubei Changjiang Publishing and Media Group Co., Ltd., disregarded the Party Central Committee's policy of adhering to the development of state-owned cultural enterprises based on their main business in order to improve political performance in the short term. Without approval from the Office of the Provincial Leading Group for State owned Cultural Assets Supervision and Administration and Industrial Development, he expanded his investment scale, deviated from the development of cultural main business, and carried out large-scale trade in automobiles, steel, tea financing trade, and non main business investment in real estate development. Among them, the proportion of bulk trade in the past five years has reached 73% -93% of the total trade, and prepaid tea payments face a risk of loss of 130 million yuan. The area of the Book City project in a cultural square project owned by the company only accounts for 8%.
In June 2022, Chen Yiguo realized that he had been investigated by the organization and met "political fraudsters" Zhao and Li through the introduction of his subordinates. Zhao and Li requested to undertake the project, and Chen Yiguo immediately agreed and arranged for a subsidiary company to sign a strategic cooperation framework agreement with a certain engineering company, from which Li could subcontract 30% of the project. In September 2022, after Chen Yiguo was detained by the Provincial Supervision Commission, the relevant strategic cooperation framework agreement cooperation was terminated.
In addition, Chen Yiguo has also violated political discipline and other serious violations of discipline and law by opposing organizational review. He has been expelled from the party and public office, and suspected criminal issues have been transferred to the procuratorial organs for legal review and prosecution.
According to public data, Chen Yiguo, male, Han nationality, a Hubei public security official, was born in April 1964, with a university degree and a bachelor's degree in law. He started working in August 1985 and joined the CPC in May 1988. He has served as Vice Chairman and Deputy Secretary of the Party Group of the Wuhan Municipal Federation of Trade Unions, Vice Chairman and Member of the Party Group of the Hubei Provincial Federation of Trade Unions, Standing Committee Member, Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission and Deputy Mayor of Xiaogan City, and Deputy Secretary of the Xiaogan City Committee. He was transferred to the Party Committee Secretary of Changjiang Publishing and Media Group in May 2017 and was investigated in September 2022.
After investigation, Chen Yiguo's ideals and beliefs collapsed, he abandoned his original intention and mission, befriended "political fraudsters", implemented the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee to discount and manipulate, attempted to evade organizational investigations, colluded with others to block accounts, transferred and concealed stolen funds, and deliberately opposed organizational censorship; Violating the spirit of the eight point regulations of the central government, being enthusiastic about "circle culture", accepting gifts and gifts in violation of regulations, accepting banquets in violation of regulations, changing official travel plans abroad without authorization, and taking the opportunity to travel; Ignoring organizational rules and illegally promoting cadres during the reform of state-owned enterprises; Moral corruption, engaging in power and money trading; Greed inflation, utilizing the convenience of one's position and power or position to seek benefits for others in undertaking engineering projects, reducing criminal penalties, and illegally accepting huge amounts of property.
In April of this year, the Hubei Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision reported that Chen Yiguo, former Party Secretary and Chairman of Hubei Changjiang Publishing and Media Group Co., Ltd. and Changjiang Publishing and Media Co., Ltd., illegally accepted gifts and consumption cards, changed their official itinerary without authorization, and took the opportunity to travel:
From 2015 to 2022, Chen Yiguo received a total of 168000 yuan in gifts and consumption cards from 4 subordinates and 5 private business owners; Unauthorized change of official itinerary in Greece, leading a team to travel to Santorini Island in Greece for two days, with expenses advanced by a subsidiary company. Later, the relevant expenses were only paid after the provincial party committee inspection team discovered the issue. Chen Yiguo also has other serious violations of discipline and law, such as being expelled from the Party and public office, and being suspected of committing crimes. He has been transferred to the procuratorial organs for examination and prosecution in accordance with the law.