How was the municipal party secretary who harbored the murderer discovered?

Recently, businessman Chen Qing was sentenced to 1 year in prison and 1 year probation by the Rucheng County Court in Hunan Province for paying a bribe of more than 1.3 million yuan.

View News reporters noted that one of the important reasons why he received a light sentence was that he exposed Ma Yong, the former secretary of the Yiyang Municipal Party Committee, who was sentenced to 12 years in prison in August last year for accepting bribes and abusing his power. Year, it was deemed a "major meritorious service".

The reason why the Ma Yong case attracted national attention was not because this man made more than 3 million yuan, but because he interfered with the judiciary after collecting the money, resulting in the two murderous sons of businessman Hu Shuangfu being sentenced to lighter crimes or even suspended. .

Last year, the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission publicly reported 7 typical cases of leading cadres intervening in the judiciary, and the Ma Yong case was the first one.

The National People's Congress was being held, and a businessman went to the secretary's office to deliver gold bricks

The first-instance verdict of Chen Qing's bribery case was recently announced and revealed that between 2007 and 2012, he engaged in illegal activities to obtain unfavorable financial results. With legitimate interests, he gave property to Ma Yong, then secretary of the Yiyang Municipal Party Committee, eight times, totaling HK$80,000, 3,800 grams of gold and a white women's watch of the "Piaget" brand. After identification, the gold and watches were worth more than 1.26 million yuan.

View News reporters noticed that judging from the location of gold delivery, Ma Yong’s office and home were occupied 4 times and 3 times respectively. The only exception occurred before the Spring Festival in 2012. At that time, the Hunan Provincial People's Congress was being held. Chen Qing drove from Yiyang to Changsha and gave Ma Yong two 500-gram gold bricks worth more than 350,000 yuan in his suite at the hotel where the Provincial People's Congress representative lived.

As for the matters he requested, it was mainly the "Hong Kong City" project developed by his Zhongnan Company. In terms of construction, demolition, land transfer fee refund, tax reduction and exemption, etc., Chen Qing*** made a profit of more than 5 million yuan.

It must be pointed out that the project is still in an unfinished state. The media once revealed a detail: Once, a businessman leaked that the secretary was going to inspect Hong Kong City. When reporters arrived at the scene, they found that Ma Yong was the only one on the construction site, without even the secretary, "which indicated that the matter had not been reached within the government*" **knowledge".

Documentary evidence issued by the police shows that on December 5, 2014, Chen Qing was investigated by the Hengyang Municipal Public Security Bureau on suspicion of illegal transfer and reselling of land use rights, and was arrested two days later. During the investigation, he took the initiative to confess the criminal facts of bribing Ma Yong. What the Opinion News reporter would like to remind is that at that time Ma Yong had left Yiyang and was serving as deputy secretary-general of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee at the department level. On May 13, 2015, Ma Yong was dismissed on suspicion of serious disciplinary violations. At this time, it had been half a year since Chen Qing was arrested.

In the end, Chen Qing’s revelation was verified to be true. The defense lawyer believed that the crime he exposed had a huge impact across the country and should be considered a major meritorious service. The court of first instance agreed with this view, and because his family members actively returned the stolen goods, he was sentenced to probation.

As for Ma Yong, who was mentioned many times above, public information shows that the 60-year-old is from Chongqing and entered politics there after studying in Hunan. At first, this person had been working in the statistical system for 20 years, from being a cadre of the Rural Economic Survey Team to being promoted to deputy director of the Provincial Bureau of Statistics.

In 2006, he left the provincial capital and went to Yiyang to serve as mayor. Two years later, he was promoted to secretary of the municipal party committee. He returned to Changsha in 2013 and served as deputy secretary-general of the provincial party committee.

One and a half years after he was dismissed, in August last year, the Chenzhou Intermediate People’s Court sentenced Ma Yong to 12 years in prison for accepting bribes and abusing power, and he received property equivalent to more than RMB 3.68 million. , be confiscated and turned over to the state treasury.

The son of a businessman committed murder and was given a three-year suspended sentence

Ironically, as early as October 2011, Ma Yong, then secretary of the Yiyang Municipal Party Committee, spoke to the media, He even disclosed his family income: "The salary income is a little more than 5,000 yuan. The annual income, plus various royalties and other expenses, is roughly 80,000 yuan a year. To sum up, my income situation should be said It belongs to the better among the typical working-class people in China.”

In fact, it was his lover Wang Lan who took over projects as his business spokesperson, such as gas stations and sand and gravel. A retired local cadre once pointed out that Wang Lan went directly to Ma Yong to complete the gas station approval procedures, and then resold it to a boss, making a profit of 4 million.

In addition, another of his mistresses opened a teahouse, which became his "second office".

It is said that at that time, Yiyang City officials formed a consensus that meetings in the municipal party committee compound could only be a formality, and the real promotion matters were resolved in the teahouse.

View News reporters found that Ma Yong’s case has attracted social attention not because of the amount of bribes he accepted, nor because of the egregious circumstances of his crime, but because he was responsible for an intentional murder as the municipal party committee secretary. He illegally interfered with the administration of justice, which ultimately resulted in the serious consequences of a light sentence for a serious crime.

On February 1, 2016, the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission publicly reported seven typical cases of leading cadres intervening in the judiciary. The first case was the "Hu Brothers Intentional Injury Case" in which Ma Yong intervened. "People's Court Daily" believes that this is the most typical case investigated and dealt with since the "Regulations on Recording, Notification and Accountability of Leading Cadres Intervening in Judicial Activities and Handling Specific Cases" issued by the central government on March 18, 2015. .

The beginning of this murder can be traced back to November 4, 2012. At that time, the victim Yuan Dali was eating late-night snacks with his friends and had a quarrel with the shop owner Hu Shuangfu because a stool was broken. During the conflict, Hu's two sons, Hu Xuntao and Hu Xunheng, stabbed Yuan Dali to death with daggers.

What is very surprising is that on August 1, 2013, the Heshan District Court of Yiyang City sentenced Hu Xuntao to 5 years in prison and Hu Xunheng to 3 years in prison and suspended for 3 years for intentional injury. According to the current criminal law, the starting point for intentional injury causing death is ten years, and the maximum penalty is death. Why were the Hu brothers sentenced to such lenient sentences after committing murder?

It turns out that during the trial of the case, the defendant's lawyer submitted two pieces of evidence of the principal criminal Hu Xuntao's meritorious service. One was that he reported other people's crimes in the detention center; the other was that he was a third-class neutral during the Wenchuan earthquake. achievement. Media investigations revealed that the above-mentioned criminal acts were fabricated, and the specific method was to "transfer" clues of a drug manufacturer and trafficker onto Hu Xuntao's head.

In addition, another piece of evidence is more meaningful: the Yiyang Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce requested that the two defendants be given a lighter or reduced punishment. You know, the father of the Hu brothers, Hu Shuangfu, is the vice president of the Yiyang Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce. It is worth mentioning that Chen Qing, the businessman who exposed Ma Yong mentioned above, was the president of the Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce in Yiyang at the time.

The murder case was reaffirmed and 9 people from the Public Security Bureau and the Procuratorate were sentenced

The Chenzhou Intermediate People’s Court found that the reason for such an unusually light sentence was because Ma Yong responded to Hu Shuangfu’s orders between 2012 and 2013. Request to "say hello" to the relevant leaders of the Yiyang Municipal and Legal Affairs Bureau regarding the murder case of the Hu brothers. Later, Ma Yong accepted 100,000 yuan and 100 grams of gold bars from Hu Shuangfu in the office.

However, Ma Yong said in court that he did not know anything about the case, "The incident happened at the end of 2012, and I left Yiyang in March 2013 to transfer to the Provincial Committee. Since then, I have never asked about it, nor have I had any People have briefed me on the situation, but I don’t know what the case is or what the crime was.”

No amount of sophistry can change the facts. After Ma Yong was sacked, the murder case of the Hu brothers was remanded for retrial. In August 2016, the Chenzhou Intermediate People's Court pronounced that Hu Xuntao was guilty of intentional homicide and sentenced to 15 years in prison; the defendant Hu Xunheng was guilty of intentional homicide and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Three years.

View News reporters noticed that in addition to Ma Yong, nine other cadres of the political and legal system in Heshan District, Yiyang City who were involved in the case were imprisoned. Specifically, they are the former president of the District Court Xie Deqing, the former deputy president Wang Maohua, the former president of the First Criminal Tribunal Liu Fei, the former section chief of the Public Prosecution Section of the District Procuratorate Zhou Lijun, the former deputy section chief Li Xinjian, and the former deputy director of the Ziyang Branch of the Municipal Public Security Bureau Tan Yifu, former captain of the Anti-Narcotics Brigade Huang Zhiguo, former director of the No. 1 Detention Center Fu Like, former police officer Yang Chao of the detention center, etc. were sentenced to sentences ranging from 1 year and 4 months to 3 years.

As for Hu Shuangfu, the father of the Hu brothers, he was sentenced to three years in prison for helping to forge evidence and bribe Ma Yong for his son's case. , and fined 100,000 yuan.

The "People's Court Daily" pointed out in this case that as early as March 2015, the central government promulgated the "Regulations on Records, Notifications and Accountability of Leading Cadres Intervening in Judicial Activities and Intervening in the Handling of Specific Cases". A firewall has been erected between the two countries. Interfering with the judiciary may put officials in doubt.

Opinion News reporters found that the above regulations require that judicial personnel should comprehensively and truthfully record the interference of leading cadres in judicial activities and the handling of specific cases, so that traces of the entire process are documented. In addition, judicial organs should report on the intervention of leading cadres in judicial activities and the handling of specific cases every quarter.

If necessary, it can be reported immediately.

“To prevent the recurrence of similar cases of illegal intervention by powers, we must not only improve the mechanism and plug the loopholes of illegal interference in justice from the source; but also cultivate the ability and responsibility of judicial personnel to eliminate illegal interference.” "People's A comment in the Court Daily pointed out that the Ma Yong case is a wake-up call for the judicial organs and a warning to society: Stop being willful in interfering in cases, and those who illegally interfere with the judiciary should take Ma Yong as a warning.

At the same time, those judicial staff who do not adhere to legal beliefs and are influenced by illegal interference and bend the law for personal gain should not expect those who illegally interfere with the judiciary to keep your confidentiality. Those who bend the law for personal gain will inevitably be punished by the law.

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