In the first instance, it was found that 6.23 million bribes were accepted. Corrupt officials who participated in the warning conference falsely confessed and attempted to conceal the truth from the Hai County Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision | Transportation Bureau | Defendant | Project | Repurchase | Resources | Wan | Issue
On August 9th, the China Journal of Discipline Inspection and Supervision revealed that Wan Ming, former Party Secretary and Director of the Transportation Bureau of Resource County, Guilin, Guangxi, voluntarily confessed the issue to the County Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision after the local warning education conference, attempting to hide it from the outside world. The recent first instance verdict revealed that Wan Ming had taken bribes totaling 6.23 million yuan.
According to the above-mentioned report from the China Discipline Inspection and Supervision Daily, the Discipline Inspection Commission and Supervision Commission of Resource County recently held a warning education meeting at the County Transportation Bureau. Based on reporting the typical cases of serious violations of discipline and law by Wan, the former Party Secretary and Director of the County Transportation Bureau, strict disciplinary requirements were imposed, and erroneous cadres were urged to actively and truthfully explain the problems to the organization.
Previously, after attending the warning education conference on typical cases of disciplinary violations and illegal activities by Wei Shaoyi, former secretary of the Resource County Party Committee, Wan voluntarily explained to the County Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision that he had received 2 million yuan in cash from private enterprise owner Cao, and emphasized that it was the repurchase payment for the demolition and resettlement of his hometown homestead. The County Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision quickly established an inspection team to investigate the issue.
"I actively responded to the call and cooperated with the relocation arrangements. When I heard that Cao was willing to repurchase the resettlement housing, I contacted him and we even signed a repurchase contract privately." During the initial review conversation, Wan replied. When asked about the whereabouts of the contract, Wan was vague, sometimes saying that the contract was left at home, sometimes saying that it was lost, and even stating that he strictly complied with relevant laws and regulations, but remained silent on substantive issues.
In order to break the deadlock in the conversation, the staff of the verification team conducted on-site visits, individual interviews, and consulted information to gain a deeper understanding. They found that the way Wan and Cao privately signed a repurchase contract not only did not comply with the government's regulations on the repurchase process of demolition and resettlement housing, but also the repurchase price was 12000 yuan per square meter, far higher than the market price of 8500 yuan.
"Cao is a shareholder of an engineering construction company, why do you still privately purchase your resettlement housing?" "Why does the repurchase of resettlement housing not follow the government's prescribed process, but rather a private cash transaction?" After collecting relevant evidence, the verification team staff approached Wan for a conversation. Faced with the questions raised by the staff, Wan was unable to provide a reasonable explanation.
According to the report, Wan believed that by "false confession", he could hide from the sky and escape from the sea, but little did he know that during the detention measures taken by the Yanshan District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision in Guilin City, Cao had already clearly explained the reason for giving Wan a "benefit fee" of 2 million yuan.
In the face of ironclad evidence, Wan had to admit the problem: "In the implementation of the second contract section of the Meixi to Resource Highway Project on National Highway G241 in Resource County, I used my authority to help Cao undertake the project and collected a benefit fee of 2 million yuan. In order to avoid organizational review and investigation, I fabricated the 'illusion' that Cao repurchased my hometown's homestead for demolition and resettlement housing and paid the repurchase fee."
In response to Wan's cleverness in resisting the organization's review and investigation, the Discipline Inspection Commission and Supervision Commission of Resource County ultimately decided to take detention measures against him. During the detention period, the staff searched for clues by sorting out the relevant records of projects implemented by the county transportation bureau over the years, conducting interviews and investigations with key personnel in the unit and the responsible persons of related engineering projects, and continuously digging deeper along the line. They also identified other disciplinary and illegal issues of Wan.
Pengpai News noticed that Wan Ming, former Party Secretary and Director of the Transportation Bureau of Resource County, was mentioned in the above-mentioned report of the China Discipline Inspection and Supervision Daily.
On April 6, 2023, the website of the Guilin Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision announced that from 2016 to 2020, Wan Ming had repeatedly violated regulations by accepting gifts and gifts from others, totaling 549000 yuan. Wanming also has other serious violations of discipline and law. In March 2023, Wan Ming was expelled from the Party and public office, and his suspected criminal issues were transferred to the procuratorial organs for legal review and prosecution.
In addition, according to the WeChat official account "People's Court of Ziyuan County, Guangxi", on August 2, 2023, the People's Court of Ziyuan County publicly sentenced Wan, the former secretary of the Party Leadership Group and director of the Transportation Bureau of Ziyuan County, to bribery, sentenced Wan, the defendant, to 10 years and three months in prison and fined 500000 yuan; Illegally obtained RMB 6.23 million has been refunded to the supervisory authority, with 1.58 million yuan remaining to be recovered; The two sets of real estate actually owned by the defendant Wan who is detained in the case shall be confiscated by the detention authority according to the value of the defendant Wan's property. Any shortfall shall continue to be recovered and turned over to the national treasury. Wan immediately stated that he will not appeal the verdict.
The court's trial found that from 2015 to 2021, the defendant Wan provided assistance to Lu, Tang, Xie, and others in fund application and engineering contracting, and received a total of 6.23 million yuan in benefits from others, taking advantage of his position as the director of the Industry and Information Commerce Bureau and the Transportation Bureau of Resource County. Upon further investigation, the defendant Wan pleaded guilty in court and actively refunded 1.58 million yuan in stolen money.