Sentenced to life imprisonment, "Fuzhou criminal" Xiao Yi abuses his power | Xiao Yi | accepts bribes
According to the CCTV news client, on August 22, the Intermediate People's Court of Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, publicly sentenced Xiao Yi, a former member of the Party Group and Vice Chairman of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, to bribery and abuse of power. The defendant Xiao Yi was sentenced to life imprisonment for the crime of bribery, deprived of political rights for life, and sentenced to confiscation of all personal property. He was sentenced to six years in prison for the crime of abuse of power, and decided to execute life imprisonment, deprived of political rights for life, and sentenced to 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.
After trial, it was 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 property totaling more than 125 million yuan, of which more than 57.82 million yuan has not yet been actually obtained;
From 2017 to 2021, during his tenure as the Secretary of the Fuzhou Municipal Party Committee, Xiao Yi 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 electricity security, resulting in significant losses to public property, national and people's interests. The circumstances were particularly serious and the impact was particularly severe.
The court believes that the defendant Xiao Yi's behavior constitutes the crime of bribery and abuse of power, with a particularly large amount of bribery and a particularly serious abuse of power. Considering 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 confiscated, which has a statutory and discretionary lenient punishment circumstance. He can be punished leniently according to law. The court then made the above judgment.
Illegal support for virtual currency mining activities
According to public information, Xiao Yi was born in May 1962 in Ganzhou, Jiangxi. He served as the Secretary of the Fuzhou Municipal Party Committee in April 2015 and as the Vice Chairman of the Jiangxi Provincial Political Consultative Conference in January 2018. He continued to serve as the Secretary of the Fuzhou Municipal Party Committee until his resignation in March 2021.
Less than two months later, on May 10, 2021, the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission announced that Xiao Yi was under review and investigation. In December of the same year, he was expelled from the party and held public office.
After investigation, Xiao Yi abandoned his original intention and mission, undermined the political principle of "two safeguards", implemented major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee with serious deviations, violated the new development concept, abused his power to introduce and support enterprises to engage in virtual currency "mining" activities that do not meet the requirements of national industrial policies, illegally borrowed funds for projects and construction, causing adverse effects;
Ignoring the spirit of the central eight point regulations, illegally accepting gifts and gifts, and accepting 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.
In April 2022, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission publicly reported 10 typical cases of violating the spirit of the Central Eight point Regulations, including Xiao Yi's illegal acceptance of gifts and gifts, as well as accepting banquets that may affect the fair execution of official duties.
According to the announcement, from 2014 to 2020, Xiao Yi received multiple gifts and cash gifts from private entrepreneurs, totaling 849000 yuan; Accepting multiple banquets arranged by private entrepreneurs, consuming high-end dishes, and drinking high-end alcoholic beverages.
Self proclaimed as the "culprit of the people of Fuzhou"
On January 8, 2023, the second episode of the TV series "Forever Blowing the Charge" titled "Political Supervision" was broadcasted, revealing the relevant details of the Xiao Yi case.
During Xiao Yi's tenure as the Secretary of the Fuzhou Municipal Party Committee, he regarded Jiumu Group Chuangshi Technology Co., Ltd. as a "business card" of the local "digital economy" industry and promoted it to the outside world as a high-tech company engaged in "big data" and "cloud computing". However, Xiao Yi knows that this "business card" is seriously untrue. What the enterprise is really engaged in is the production of virtual currency computing, commonly known as "mining", that is, "mining" virtual currency on the Internet.
Starting from 2018, the country explicitly required local governments to guide "mining" enterprises to exit in an orderly manner, and further prohibited the development of virtual currency "mining" projects under any name. Xiao Yi is very clear about national policies, but he still harbors a sense of luck and tries to deceive others. He instructs Lin Qingxing, the actual controller of the company, to perform some other business when someone visits and inspects the company.
According to Lin Qingxing's recollection, "He would say, 'Don't talk about' mining 'when the leader comes over, he would tell me,' mining machines' can run artificial intelligence by changing the operating system, and switching programs can be good, just like turning off QQ and running WeChat can be good, right? '"
Not only that, in the first half of 2017, Xiao Yi disregarded the actual situation in Fuzhou at that time, blindly borrowed money, made blind decisions, and invested more than 3 billion yuan to build a related automotive industry park. However, because they produced traditional fuel vehicles and their own brand had little competitiveness, they stopped production after producing thousands of units, resulting in immediate production stoppage.
Faced with the camera, Xiao Yi repented and said, "I am a sinner for the people of Fuzhou. I apologize to the people of Fuzhou. The organization has appointed me as the Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee in Fuzhou, hoping that I can lead everyone out of poverty, improve the economy, and let the people live a good life. However, due to my distorted view of political achievements, I have put my so-called 'political achievements' before the interests of the people, which is why I acted so recklessly and recklessly, resulting in such a significant loss. I want to apologize to the people of Fuzhou."
