The first instance verdict of Gong Jianhua, former deputy director of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Jiangxi Province, in the bribery case
On September 19, 2023, the Intermediate People's Court of Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province publicly sentenced Gong Jianhua, a former member of the Party Group and Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Jiangxi Provincial People's Congress, to bribery. Gong Jianhua was sentenced to 15 years in prison and fined RMB 5.5 million for the crime of bribery; Gong Jianhua's bribery proceeds and their fruits that have been seized, detained, or frozen on record shall be recovered in accordance with the law and turned over to the national treasury.
After trial, it was found that from 2004 to 2020, the defendant Gong Jianhua took advantage of his positions as Deputy Secretary and Executive Deputy Mayor of the CPC Nanchang Municipal Committee, Leader of the Nanchang Planning and Land Operation Leading Group, Deputy Secretary and Mayor of the CPC Yichun Municipal Committee, Secretary of the CPC Fuzhou Municipal Committee, Standing Committee Member and Secretary of the CPC Jiangxi Provincial Committee, and Deputy Director of the Jiangxi Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee to provide assistance to individuals in matters such as land listing, engineering contracting, project development, and job promotion. He illegally received more than RMB 83.61 million in total.
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The Intermediate People's Court of Zhangzhou City believes that the defendant Gong Jianhua's behavior constitutes the crime of bribery, with a particularly large amount of bribery. Considering that Gong Jianhua voluntarily confessed his crimes truthfully after surrendering to the case, and voluntarily confessed some bribery facts that the investigating authority had not yet mastered, with the circumstances of self surrender, confession and repentance, actively returning the stolen goods, and the bribery proceeds and their fruits have all been sealed, seized, and frozen in the case, with the statutory and discretionary circumstances of lighter punishment, he can be punished with lighter punishment according to law. The court then made the above judgment.