The deputy mayor who was investigated during his tenure was sentenced to 13 years in prison! This illegal detail was first disclosed to Li Zhong | defendant | details
On the 19th, the Hubei Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision reported 5 typical cases of corruption in the field of engineering construction. Among them, the details of Li Zhong, a former member of the Wuhan Municipal Government's Party Group and Deputy Mayor, engaging in favoritism and fraud during the process of land collection, storage, and transfer have been disclosed for the first time.
The notice points out that from 2006 to 2011, during his tenure as the District Mayor and Party Secretary of Caidian District Government in Wuhan, Li Zhong accepted requests from others during the acquisition of land from a real estate development company by Caidian Urban Construction Investment and Development Co., Ltd. He decided to treat the collected land as equivalent to commercial and residential land without evaluation, and the urban investment company paid the land value-added tax on his behalf; In the process of approving the transfer of commercial and residential land to a certain real estate enterprise, I accepted requests from others, without conducting land price evaluation and public bidding, and directed the transfer of 458.45 acres of commercial and residential land to the company at a price lower than that of the same batch of land. This caused significant losses to national interests, and I personally accepted bribes from it. Li Zhong also had other serious violations of discipline, law, and crime. He was expelled from the Party and public office, and was sentenced to thirteen years in prison.
Li Zhong, male, Han nationality, was born in July 1964 in Hubei Public Security Bureau. He has an on-the-job postgraduate degree. He joined the CPC in April 1984 and started working in July 1985. He has served in Wuhan for a long time, serving as Deputy District Mayor of Hongshan District, Deputy Secretary and Deputy District Mayor of Hannan District, Deputy Secretary and District Mayor of Caidian District, Secretary of the District Committee, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the District People's Congress, Secretary of the Wuchang District Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Party Working Committee and Director of the Management Committee of Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone. From December 2016 to February 2017, served as a member of the Party Group of the Wuhan Municipal Government; In February 2017, he was appointed as a member of the Party Group and Deputy Mayor of Wuhan Municipal Government.
In February 2018, Li Zhong was investigated during his tenure. In August of the same year, it was "double opened", and the double opening notice pointed out that:
Li Zhong violated political discipline, colluded in confessing and blocking the mouth, and opposed organizational censorship; Violation of organizational discipline, failure to truthfully report personal matters in accordance with regulations, and failure to truthfully explain issues to the organization during organizational inquiries; Violating integrity and discipline, accepting gifts that may affect the fair performance of official duties; Using one's authority to seek benefits for others, and relatives accepting the other's property. Violating national laws, using the convenience of one's position to seek benefits for others, and using the convenience conditions formed by one's power and position to seek improper benefits for others through the behavior of other state officials in their positions, accepting huge amounts of property, suspected of bribery crimes; Engaging in favoritism, abuse of power, causing significant losses to national interests, and suspected of committing crimes of abuse of power.
As a leading cadre of Party members, Li Zhong has lost his ideals, beliefs, and Party spirit. He is disloyal and dishonest to the Party, forgets his original intention, and his selfish desires are inflated. He has no bottom line in discipline and law, seriously violates Party discipline and national laws, and is suspected of committing crimes in his position. Moreover, he has not restrained himself or taken action after the 18th National Congress of the Party, and his nature is bad. The circumstances are serious, and he should be dealt with seriously.
In September of the same year, the Hubei procuratorial organs lawfully arrested Li Zhong.
After Li Zhong was investigated, Hubei also reported a number of issues related to the transfer of central environmental protection inspections, which also involved Li Zhong. From November 26 to December 26, 2016, the Third Central Environmental Protection Inspection Group conducted environmental protection inspections in Hubei Province, and on April 14, 2017, transferred 18 ecological and environmental damage liability issues discovered by the inspections to Hubei Province, requiring investigation and handling in accordance with laws and regulations.
Among them, the prominent issue of illegal lake filling and occupation in Wuhan has been reported. Wuhan City has violated the Hubei Provincial Regulations on Lake Protection by relaxing lake protection standards and failing to strictly implement the blue line protection scope in the preparation and approval of the "Three Lines and One Road" plan for lakes. As a result, some water bodies that should be protected, such as Tangxun Lake, Guanlian Lake, and Zhushan Lake, have been delineated from the protection scope, resulting in the legalization of lake filling and occupation.
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According to the Hubei Daily client, on December 18, 2018, a case involving three former members of the Wuhan Municipal Government's Party Group and Vice Mayor Li Zhong, who were suspected of bribery and abuse of power, was publicly heard in the first instance of the Xianning Intermediate People's Court.
In court, the People's Procuratorate of Xianning City accused the defendant Li Zhong, as a state employee, of taking advantage of his position as Deputy District Chief of Hongshan District, Deputy Secretary of Hannan District Committee, Secretary of Caidian District Committee, and Secretary of Wuchang District Committee, or the convenience conditions formed by his power and position, to seek benefits for others, illegally accepting property from others, and the amount was particularly huge; As a staff member of a state organ, abuse of power has caused significant losses to public property, and the circumstances are particularly serious.
It is worth mentioning that the other two people on trial in the same room also have the surname Li, namely Li Yong and Li Xin. Li Zhong conspired with Li Yong, and Li Xin executed it.
The People's Procuratorate of Xianning City accuses that the defendant Li Yong and Li Zhong conspired to illegally accept other people's property and seek benefits for others by taking advantage of Li Yong's position, with a huge amount of money involved; The defendant Li Xin executed the erroneous decision of Li Zhong and others, resulting in significant losses to public property.
The report stated that the trial strictly followed legal procedures, and the defendant and their defense fully expressed their opinions. The defendant Li Zhong and others pleaded guilty and repented in court.
In recent years, several vice mayors in Wuhan have been ousted. Except for Li Zhong, in December 2020, Xu Honglan, a member of the Party Group and Deputy Mayor of Wuhan Municipal People's Government, was investigated, and in June 2021, she was "double opened". In November 2022, Zhang Guangqing, former deputy mayor of Wuhan, was investigated and expelled from the party in May of this year. In March 2022, Yuan Shanla, former member of the Standing Committee of the Wuhan Municipal Party Committee and former Executive Vice Mayor of the Municipal Government, was dismissed from the party in September of the same year. On June 5th this year, Wang Qinghua, Vice Mayor of Wuhan, was investigated for suspected serious violations of discipline and law.
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