Zhou Jiangyong, former member of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and former Secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee, was sentenced to death with a reprieve in the first trial
On July 25, 2023, the Intermediate People's Court of Chuzhou City, Anhui Province publicly announced the verdict on the bribery case of Zhou Jiangyong, former member of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and former secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee. The defendant Zhou Jiangyong was sentenced to death for the crime of bribery, with a two-year suspension of execution, deprivation of political rights for life, and confiscation of all personal property; The proceeds and fruits of Zhou Jiangyong's bribery crime shall be recovered in accordance with the law and turned over to the national treasury.
After trial and investigation, it was found that from 2001 to 2021, the defendant Zhou Jiangyong took advantage of his positions as Deputy County Magistrate of the People's Government of Yin County, County Magistrate and Secretary of the Xiangshan County Committee, Standing Committee Member of the Ningbo Municipal Committee and Secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Development and Construction Management Committee of Hangzhou Bay New Area, Acting Mayor and Secretary of the Zhoushan Municipal Committee, Standing Committee Member of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee and Secretary of the Wenzhou Municipal Committee, Standing Committee Member of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee and Secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal Committee, as well as the convenience of his powers and status, to provide assistance to relevant units and individuals in engineering construction, project contracting, land acquisition, case handling, and other matters. He directly or through his relatives illegally received property totaling RMB 1.81. More than 200 million yuan.
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The Chuzhou Intermediate People's Court believes that the defendant Zhou Jiangyong's behavior constitutes the crime of bribery. Zhou Jiangyong's bribery amount is particularly huge and has caused significant losses to the interests of the country and the people. He should be punished severely according to law. Considering that Zhou Jiangyong truthfully confessed his crimes after arriving at the case, voluntarily confessed some of the bribery crimes that the supervisory authorities had not yet mastered, pleaded guilty and repented, actively returned the stolen goods, and all the stolen funds and goods have been recovered, there are legal and discretionary circumstances for lenient punishment. The court then made the above judgment.