He accepted a bribe of 338 million and was sentenced to death with a suspended death sentence in the first instance. He refused to accept the appeal! Court of second instance: uphold the original ver

He accepted a bribe of 338 million and was sentenced to death with a suspended death sentence in the first instance. He refused to accept the appeal! Court of second instance: uphold the original verdict

According to the Hainan Provincial Higher People’s Court’s WeChat public account “Hainan High Court” on January 17, the Provincial High Court recently ordered the former Party Secretary and Chairman of Hainan Nongken Investment Holding Group Co., Ltd., Hainan Province Yang Sitao, the former director of the General Administration of Agricultural Reclamation and the former secretary of the Chengmai County Party Committee, was pronounced at the second instance in the case of accepting bribes and abusing his power. According to the law, Yang Sitao's appeal was rejected, the original judgment was upheld, and Yang Sitao's suspended death sentence was approved in accordance with the law.

Accepted bribes of approximately 338 million yuan

The court found out after trial that during his tenure in Chengmai, Yang Sitao took advantage of his position to help others in land expropriation, transfer, and property transfer, real estate Seeking benefits from project planning and construction application, adjustment of floor area ratio, contracting of government projects, special financial support, etc., bribes totaling more than 338.2773 million yuan were accepted. In addition, he abused his power, constructed designated projects in violation of regulations, and returned land transfer fees in violation of regulations, causing a loss of 8.14351 million yuan in state-owned assets. Yang Sitao took the initiative to report and expose clues about other people's crimes, which was a meritorious performance.

On June 15, 2021, the Hainan Provincial No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court held a public hearing of Yang Sitao’s case in the first instance. Yang Sitao was sentenced to death for accepting bribes, with a two-year suspended execution, deprived of political rights for life, and confiscated all personal property. ; Sentenced to seven years in prison for abuse of power. Several crimes were punished concurrently, and it was decided to execute the death penalty with a two-year reprieve, deprive him of political rights for life, and confiscate all his personal property. After the first-instance verdict was announced, Yang Sitao refused to accept the verdict and filed an appeal.

He was once the "Secretary of the County Party Committee at the department level"

Yang Sitao was born in November 1964. He has held various positions in Hainan Province. In 2006, Yang Sitao was appointed as the county magistrate of Chengmai County. In 2008, Yang Sitao was appointed as the secretary of the Chengmai County Party Committee. He was promoted to the deputy department level the following year, and to the department level in 2012, becoming a rare "department-level county party secretary". Yang Sitao has served as Secretary of the Chengmai County Party Committee for 9 years. In 2017, Yang Sitao was transferred to the party committee secretary and chairman of Hainan Nongken Investment Holding Group Co., Ltd. until April 2019 when he was investigated.

Picture source: Chengmai News

Hainan Agricultural Reclamation Investment Holding Group Co., Ltd. is a wholly state-owned enterprise directly under the Hainan Provincial Government. It currently owns a total land area of ??nearly 10 million acres and has two subordinate There are 35 companies, including 2 listed companies and 1 company listed on the New OTC Market.

On November 18, 2019, the Hainan Provincial Committee’s Political and Legal Committee portal website - Hainan Political and Legal Network released information stating that the former Party Secretary and Chairman of Hainan Agricultural Reclamation Investment Holding Group Co., Ltd., and the President of the Hainan Provincial Agricultural Reclamation Administration The case of Director Yang Sitao suspected of bribery and abuse of power was prosecuted by the First Branch of the Hainan Provincial People's Procuratorate, and the First Intermediate People's Court of Hainan Province opened the case for acceptance on the same day.

According to a report on the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission on July 24, 2020, Yang Sitao was expelled from the party and public office.

The report stated that Yang Sitao violated political disciplines, engaged in fraud, resisted organizational review, and engaged in superstitious activities; violated organizational disciplines, did not truthfully explain problems when the organization inquired, violated rules of procedure and change of office disciplines; violated integrity disciplines, Taking advantage of their authority to seek benefits for relatives' business activities and engaging in profit-making activities in violation of regulations; violating mass discipline and allocating expenses to enterprises; violating work discipline and intervening in engineering projects in violation of regulations; violating life disciplines. Taking advantage of his position to seek benefits for others in real estate development and construction, engineering project contracting, etc., illegally accepting huge amounts of property; abusing his power and causing losses to state-owned assets.

Resume of Yang Sitao

Yang Sitao, male, Han nationality, born in November 1964, from Dapu, Guangdong, with postgraduate degree in work, PhD in history, senior economist, July 1985 Participated in work and joined the Communist Party of China in June 1989.

From 1985.07 to 1995.07, he successively served as the responsible technician of the communications and transmission station of the Nanhai West Company of China National Offshore Oil Corporation, the power station director, the deputy station director and the chairman of the labor union, the station director, and the party branch secretary;

1995.07-2000.11 successively served as deputy director-level cadre of China National Offshore Oil Nanhai West Company and Hainan Fertilizer Project Manager;

2000.11-2004.12 successively served as deputy county magistrate of Chengmai County Government of Hainan Province, member of the Standing Committee of the County Party Committee, and County Party Committee Deputy Secretary, Secretary of the Working Committee and Director of the Management Committee of the Old City Development Zone;

2004.12 - 2006.02, deputy secretary of the Chengmai County Party Committee, Hainan Province, County Mayor and Secretary of the Working Committee of the Old City Development Zone, Director of the Management Committee;

2006.02-2008.05, served as deputy secretary of the Chengmai County Party Committee and county head of the county government in Hainan Province;

2008.05-2017.05, served as secretary of the Chengmai County Party Committee, Hainan Province;< /p>

From 2017.05 to 2017.06, he served as Party Committee Secretary of Hainan Nongken Investment Holding Group Co., Ltd.;

In 2017.06, he served as Party Committee Secretary and Chairman of Hainan Nongken Investment Holding Group Co., Ltd.

Inspected in April 2019.

Editor|He Xiaotao and Du Hengfeng

Proofreading|Duan Lian

Extended reading:

"Hainan Tiger" illegally promotes the Haihua Island project Arranging for the son and daughter-in-law to flee to Canada

On January 18, 2022, the last episode of the CCTV TV special "Zero Tolerance" "Always on the Road" was broadcast. Zhang Qi, former member of the Standing Committee of the Hainan Provincial Committee and former secretary of the Haikou Municipal Committee Appearing in the feature film to confess.

Zhang Qi, the "sea trespasser", has been deeply involved in Hainan for more than 30 years. He is the first central management cadre who grew up in Hainan to be investigated and punished since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. In October 2014, Zhang Qi was transferred to the Standing Committee of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Sanya Municipal Party Committee. From November 2016 until his resignation, he served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Haikou Municipal Party Committee. Zhang Qi has been in charge of three of the four prefecture-level cities in Hainan Province, except Sansha City.

On January 27, 2021, the "China Discipline Inspection and Supervision News" published an article revealing that Zhang Qi used his position as deputy mayor of the People's Government of Sanya City, Hainan Province, director of the Hainan Provincial Tourism Bureau, and director of the Danzhou Municipal People's Government. Chang, Secretary of the Danzhou Municipal Party Committee, Member of the Standing Committee of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee, Secretary of the Sanya Municipal Party Committee, Secretary of the Haikou Municipal Party Committee, etc., he abused public power, used it for profit, used cunning pretexts for land reclamation and illegal development, and turned land resources into arbitrary divisions. Cake and tools for making money are typical examples of "making money by relying on the land", "making money by sitting on the land" and "making money by borrowing from the island".

Upstream journalists noticed that in order to pursue political achievements, Zhang Qi did not hesitate to sacrifice land, marine resources and the ecological environment. When he was secretary of the Danzhou Municipal Party Committee, he illegally promoted the Haihua Island project, involving a total reclamation area of ??783 hectares. Under his strong promotion, the Danzhou Municipal Government and the Ocean Department split the reclamation project into 36 sub-projects with an area of ??less than 27 hectares through the method of "breaking it into parts", allowing the projects that failed to pass the test to be advanced. The prohibited project was approved, resulting in the permanent destruction of large areas of coral reefs and white butterfly shells.

Zhang Qi, former member of the Standing Committee of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee and former secretary of the Haikou Municipal Party Committee, appeared on camera to confess. Image source/CCTV screenshot

Using investment as a cover to accept bribes through his wife and son

The feature film mentioned that after Zhang Qi became a provincial and ministerial cadre, that is, after 2014, he was suspected of corruption. The amount is approximately 107 million yuan.

Zhang Qi specifically selects bosses whose companies are not too big and has been with him for a long time, believing that this can reduce risks. In terms of power-for-money transactions, of the 100 million yuan that Zhang Qi accepted in bribes, less than 2 million yuan was received directly by himself. The rest was received through his wife and son, and he used business investment as a cover.

Zhang Qi’s wife went into business in her early years. After the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the central government banned the spouses of leading cadres from operating businesses within its jurisdiction. Zhang Qi arranged for his wife to have no relationship with the company on the surface, but in fact she was controlling the company behind the scenes. After he made profits for the developer, he found a suitable opportunity to introduce his family to his boss, and then the boss knew full well and transferred the benefits to him.

The properties and projects involved in the case of Zhang Qi, former member of the Standing Committee of the Hainan Provincial Committee and former secretary of the Haikou Municipal Committee. Image source/CCTV screenshot

As for the specific means of power-money transactions, Zhang Qi uses various seemingly legal shells to package it. When he was secretary of the Sanya Municipal Party Committee, he launched a landscape improvement project on a main road with a target value of hundreds of millions of yuan. Zhang Hailin, chairman of a central enterprise, had an interest relationship with Zhang Qi. On the one hand, Zhang Qi asked his wife to accept tens of millions of yuan in bribes from Zhang Hailin's company under the cover of economic behavior. On the other hand, he used seemingly compliant bidding procedures to conceal the essence of receiving money for projects approved by Zhang Hailin.

“I am working on two projects, one is the East Coast Wetland Park, and the other is road reconstruction. On the surface, it is for bidding. In fact, Zhang Hailin came to my wife once and asked me to have dinner. Regarding this matter, I told him who to go to and the form of the bidding process," Zhang Qi confessed in the feature film.

Upstream news reporters noted that in addition, while serving as Secretary of the Sanya Municipal Party Committee, Zhang Qi helped private business owners illegally obtain 174,000 square meters of state-owned construction land under the guise of new energy vehicles. power and seek personal gain by increasing the proportion of real estate land. From 2010 to 2018, Zhang Qi helped many private business owners illegally acquire nearly 7,000 acres of land in Danzhou, Sanya, and Haikou. Among them, he helped a real estate developer set exclusive bidder conditions in violation of regulations, illegally acquired more than 1,000 acres of land, occupied geological parks and ecological forest land, and caused billions of yuan in losses to the country.

Zhang Qi’s son Zhang Yan fled the country after the incident, and China issued a red notice to arrest him around the world. Image source/screenshot from CCTV

My son was defeated and his son became famous

Zhang Qi also dragged his son Zhang Yan into the power-money transaction.

Zhang Yan studied in Canada in his early years. In 2012, Zhang Qi went abroad to attend his son's university graduation ceremony, and for the first time, his son accepted living expenses from a boss who accompanied him there. "A boss offered to give him 100,000 Canadian dollars. I deceived myself and told my son at the time that you would pay him back in the future and pay him back after you work." The boss gave his son 100,000 Canadian dollars in front of him. million Canadian dollars.

The son was adversely affected by Zhang Qi and fell into the abyss of power and money transactions. While living in Canada, Zhang Qi's son asked a boss for hundreds of thousands of Canadian dollars to buy a luxury car. A few days later, the car crashed, and he asked the boss for hundreds of thousands of Canadian dollars to repair the car.

In September 2019, with the approval of the Party Central Committee, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission launched a case review and investigation into Zhang Qi’s serious violations of discipline and law. The review and investigation found that it is not an isolated case for leading cadres to use their power and influence to interfere in land projects to seek huge profits. According to Zhang Qi and those involved in the case, there are prominent violations and illegal problems in the commercial development of Sanya Phoenix Island, Xiaozhou Island, Haikou Simapo Island and other islands, and leading cadres are behind the scenes.

Since April 2017, disciplinary inspection and supervision agencies at all levels in Hainan Province have investigated and dealt with 515 corruption cases involving 536 people in the engineering field, involving 49% of the members of the relevant city and county leadership teams, and the number of top leaders 30%; among them, 69% of the cases investigated by the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision involved project corruption, and top leaders accounted for 59%. In 2017, the National Land Special Inspection pointed out more than 3,000 problems in 23 categories. In 2018, the National Ocean Inspection pointed out that there were 35 problems in the development of marine resources. The number of remaining problems in Hainan Province is multi-faceted and the rectification task is arduous and urgent.

In 2019, a boss who was close to Zhang Qi was detained. Zhang Qi had a premonition that he might be involved, and began to think of ways to resist the organization's investigation. After he learned of the situation, he arranged for his son and daughter-in-law to flee to Canada the next day, and also attempted to cut off the relationship between him and Qian Ling in order to protect himself.

Due to the huge amount of money involved in Zhang Yan’s case, China issued a red notice to the whole world, and he is still absconding to this day. "I regret it very much, and I also want to tell my son. He is still young, don't give up on yourself, and can return to China as soon as possible to surrender.

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