What kind of person is Wu Zhengge?

Among the criminal cases involving the infringement of citizens’ personal information caused by secret photography, Hunan businessman Wu Zhengge’s involvement in the crime is the most typical, which has triggered widespread discussion in the public and legal circles. The first case in which an official was convicted after making a real-name report.”

From January 2015 to June 2016, Wu Zhengge hired an information consulting company to purchase tracking and positioning, secret photography, video and other equipment, and conducted interviews on multiple judges in Yiyang, Changsha, Guangzhou and other places. Tracking location and covert filming.

Among the judges Wu Zhengge secretly photographed, some gambled in public, opened private clubs, accepted bribes in private, traveled on public funds, and colluded with lawyers. There are pictures and videos to prove it.

After Wu Zhengge provided the secretly filmed video to the Discipline Inspection Commission or superior authorities, Xia Xiaoying, then director of the Executive Bureau and Wu Shengjun, deputy director of the Yiyang Intermediate People's Court of Hunan Province, Xie Deqing, then president of the Heshan District Court, and deputy director Wu Shengjun President Wang Maohua, executive chief Cao Deqin and many others were punished by party and government disciplines, and some were sentenced.

In June 2016, Wu Zhengge and others were arrested by the local police. One of the suspected crimes was infringement of citizens’ personal information.

After a trial in another place, the People's Court of Anxiang County, Changde City, first instance convicted Wu Zhengge of illegally obtaining citizens' personal information and sentenced him to 4 years in prison and a fine of 30,000 yuan.

Wu Zhengge’s appeal was quickly rejected by the second instance court.

Because the case had a great impact across the country, the Changde Intermediate Court held a press conference after the final verdict was announced.

Long Chaobing, deputy president and spokesperson of the Changde Intermediate People's Court, said that stealing or illegally obtaining citizens' personal information through other methods, if the circumstances are serious, constitutes the crime of infringing on citizens' personal information and is punishable by three years in prison. The following: fixed-term imprisonment or criminal detention, and concurrently or solely a fine; if the circumstances are particularly serious, the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years, and shall also be fined.

According to the relevant judicial interpretations of the "Two Highs and Highs", illegally obtaining more than 50 pieces of whereabouts information, communication content, credit information, and property information shall be deemed as stipulated in Article 253-1 of the Criminal Law. "The circumstances are serious" and if more than 500 pieces of the above information are illegally obtained, it shall be deemed as "the circumstances are particularly serious".