Soliciting votes to bribe elections, buying and selling officials! After the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Hebei's "first tiger" was arrested for accepting bribes
According to the Supreme People's Procuratorate on July 25th, Wang Xuefeng, a former member of the Party Group and Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Hebei Province, was suspected of accepting bribes and using his influence to take bribes. The investigation by the National Supervisory Commission has been concluded and transferred to the procuratorial organs for review and prosecution.
Recently, the Supreme People's Procuratorate made an arrest decision against Wang Xuefeng on suspicion of bribery and bribery through the use of influence in accordance with the law. The case is being further processed.
Wang Xuefeng was born in November 1954 and was born in Yongnian, Hebei. He has been working in Hebei for a long time and has held positions such as Deputy Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission, Director of the Supervision Department, and Director of the Provincial Bureau of Corruption Prevention. In 2010, he was appointed as Secretary of the Tangshan Municipal Party Committee and transferred to the Provincial People's Congress in 2013.
In January 2023, Wang Xuefeng was investigated and on July 6th, he was expelled from the party.
The report states that Wang Xuefeng has lost his ideals and beliefs, abandoned his original mission, disregarded the spirit of the central eight point regulations, illegally accepted other people's travel activity arrangements, visited private clubs for banquets, and borrowed vehicles from management service recipients for a long time; Without organizational principles, engaging in vote solicitation and bribery, buying and selling officials on a large scale, seriously damaging the local political ecology, failing to truthfully explain issues during organizational conversations, failing to report personal matters in accordance with regulations, and falsifying information in cadre recruitment to seek benefits for relatives; Accepting large gift money; Without any awareness of discipline and law, using public power as a tool for personal gain, engaging in power and money transactions, using the convenience of their positions to seek benefits for others in terms of promotion, job adjustment, enterprise operation, etc., and illegally accepting huge amounts of property.
It is worth noting that in recent years, officials from Hebei Provincial People's Congress, Provincial Discipline Inspection, Tangshan City and other systems where Wang Xuefeng has worked have all been demoted.
During Wang Xuefeng's tenure as Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Hebei Provincial People's Congress, two colleagues in the leadership team of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress were successively demoted. In April and December 2017, Yang Chongyong and Zhang Jiehui were investigated successively, with the two individuals receiving bribes totaling over 206 million yuan and 127 million yuan, respectively. After Wang Xuefeng retired, he also had two "old colleagues" from the Standing Committee of the Hebei Provincial People's Congress fall from grace, namely Song Taiping, who served as deputy director from 2012 to 2018, and Xie Jilai, who served as deputy director from 2011 to 2017. Song Taiping and Xie Jilai were both accused of selling officials and titles.
In terms of disciplinary inspection in Hebei Province, in July 2021, Ma Yuchan, former deputy secretary of the Hebei Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, was investigated for serious violations of discipline and law.
On the Tangshan side, Zhang He, who had previously served as the Secretary of the Tangshan Municipal Party Committee, was investigated two years ago. He had held this position from 2002 to 2006 and was already 70 years old when he was dismissed.
Wang Xuefeng was the "first tiger" in Hebei Province after the closing of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. In addition, since the 19th National Congress, multiple "tigers" have been investigated in Hebei Province. In addition to the five former deputy directors of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress mentioned above, there are also former vice chairman of the Provincial Political Consultative Conference, Ai Wenli, former deputy governor Li Qian, and former standing committee member and deputy governor Zhang He.
