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"It's all true, I admit it all."
One day in 2014, facing the accused in court, the man in black standing in the dock lowered his head and closed his eyes, and cried with regret.
This man is not an ordinary criminal. Although his name is ordinary, his origin is really great!
This person is the former director and deputy chief engineer of the Ministry of Railways Transportation Bureau. Zhang Shuguang , known as the "chief designer of China's high-speed railway"!
In the court, Zhang Shuguang confessed to his acceptance of more than 47 million yuan of bribes.
was finally sentenced to Zhang Shuguang to death with a two-year reprieve after being ruled by the Second People's Court of Beijing.
Amid the judge's verdict, Zhang Shuguang, standing in the dock, hung his head weakly as if all his energy had been removed.
What exactly did Zhang Shuguang, who should have a bright future, experience to fall to this point?
Qianli became an official only for wealth
0 Zhang Shuguang graduated from Lanzhou Railway Academy . After graduation, he was assigned to work at the grassroots level of railways.
After nearly ten years of hard work, Zhang Shuguang finally rose from the grassroots level to the deputy section chief of the Bengbu Vehicle Depot.
Zhang Shuguang did not work in this position for long. At the end of 1991, Zhang Shuguang was transferred to Ministry of Railways to serve as a management engineer.
Although the deputy section chief of Bengbu Vehicle Depot and the Ministry of Railways management engineer are both section-level positions, one is at the grassroots level and the other is at the ministerial level. Obviously, the two cannot be equated.
Zhang Shuguang jumped from the grassroots level to the ministerial level, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is carp jumping on the dragon gate.
So some people speculated that Zhang Shuguang's mobilization was related to his wife Wang Xing .
Wang Xing was born in 1960, 4 years younger than Zhang Shuguang. She and Zhang Shuguang both graduated from Lanzhou Railway Academy and are also engaged in railway work.
Zhang Shuguang's father-in-law Wang Yaliang is an experienced seniority in the Ministry of Railways. So some people speculate that Zhang Shuguang was transferred to the Ministry of Railways because of Wang Yaliang's secret support.
1994, due to the vacancy of the position of deputy director of the Bus Department of the Ministry of Railways, Zhang Shuguang quickly gained recognition from the leaders for his excellent communication skills polished at the grassroots level, and finally became the deputy director of the Bus Department.
html After 2004, Zhang Shuguang was promoted to director of the bus department, which can be said to have a bright future.Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long. Not long after Zhang Shuguang took office, he revealed his greedy nature.
Since buses have a great say in the bidding of equipment and materials of the Ministry of Railways, although Zhang Shuguang is just a small director, he can easily grasp various domestic small and medium-sized locomotive accessories manufacturers.
During Zhang Shuguang's tenure as director of the bus department, he had a great appetite and demanded bribes from manufacturers across the country openly and secretly, so he received a lot of reports.
Shenyang Railway Bureau Branch
However, the relevant departments did not find direct evidence of Zhang Shuguang's bribery at that time, so they only criticized him verbally, transferred him from the bus office and sent him to Shenyang Railway Bureau as assistant director.
From the perspective of hindsight, Zhang Shuguang had already shown signs of corruption around 2000.
By accepting bribes, Zhang Shuguang received a considerable amount of stolen money, but how to deal with the stolen money has become a problem that has troubled Zhang Shuguang.
There is so much money, but it can’t be spent all of it, but it’s not safe to keep it all at home.
The risk of depositing stolen money into the bank is greater. Once the discipline inspection department investigates the bank accounts of Zhang Shuguang and his relatives and friends, his corruption will be directly exposed.
After thinking about it, Zhang Shuguang finally made a decision that most corrupt officials would make: invest overseas!
In 1999, Zhang Shuguang's wife Wang Xing bought a single-family villa worth nearly $350,000 in Los Angeles.
.35 million US dollars, which is roughly equivalent to more than two million RMB according to the exchange rate of that year.
is more than two million, even today it can still be considered a huge sum of money, let alone 1999?
Judging from the salary of Zhang Shuguang and Wang Xing at that time, it was impossible to pay such a huge sum of money.
In 2002, Zhang Shuguang and his wife jointly purchased a luxury villa in Walnut, USA, worth about 7 million yuan.
However, Zhang Shuguang, who tasted the sweetness, not only did not restrain himself, but instead became even more bold and arrogant.
But the old saying goes, those who play with fire must burn themselves. How can you not wet your shoes when you walk by the river?
made friends with Minister Liu, and rocket-style promotion
Speaking of Zhang Shuguang, we must not mention another heavyweight, that is, my country's former Minister of Railways Liu Zhijun .
Liu Zhijun was originally a railway guard. Because he was good at speaking and good at flattering, he married the daughter of the director of the Wuhan Railway Bureau . Liu Zhijun, who became a son-in-law, was promoted all the way, and finally successfully replaced his father-in-law and became the director of the Wuhan Railway Branch.
After the father-in-law lost his value, Liu Zhijun quickly filed for divorce from his wife, and instead started dating with another high-ranking daughter, and finally entered the marriage hall with him.
With the blessing of two political marriages, Liu Zhijun's career was like a rocket, soaring.
Liu Zhijun
But this person is greedy for money and lustful. His second wife is not good-looking, so Liu Zhijun felt that he was full of wings and decisively threw away his second wife. Finally, he found a young and beautiful female nurse to get married.
More than railway personnel confirmed that Zhang Shuguang and Liu Zhijun had known each other as early as 1997.
As the saying goes, dragons look for dragons and phoenixes look for phoenixes. Liu Zhijun and Zhang Shuguang are both greedy for money and lustful. The two are like bad tastes. Others are talented and beautiful women, and these two are undoubtedly jackals and tigers and leopards.
When receiving Liu Zhijun, Zhang Shuguang was always able to meet his preferences, and he was also very good at flattering. After a while, Zhang Shuguang became Liu Zhijun's confidant.
In March 2003, Liu Zhijun was promoted to Minister of Railways. As the saying goes, one person has achieved enlightenment and the chickens and dogs have ascended to heaven, and Liu Zhijun, who is proud and satisfied, naturally did not forget Zhang Shuguang.
Zhang Shuguang, who was deeply appreciated by Liu Zhijun, was quickly promoted to the position of deputy director of the Ministry of Railways Equipment Department, responsible for introducing foreign high-speed rail technology into the country.
Liu Zhijun promoted Zhang Shuguang in an extraordinary way, but things always have two sides. Although Zhang Shuguang and Liu Zhijun were extremely corrupt, it was during their tenure that my country's high-speed rail industry ushered in a leap forward development.
However, some people believe that the rapid development of my country's high-speed rail industry is the result of my country's promotion of industrialization and the general trend. Liu and Zhang just happened to be in the limelight and there is nothing to be proud of. Let’s not talk about the debate about
for the time being. If we only talk about Zhang Shuguang’s personal personalities, his professional strength is still quite strong.
Many people in the railway system appreciate Zhang Shuguang's work spirit and ability.
not only knows the inside, but Zhang Shuguang is also very strong and professional when negotiating with foreign companies.
Since the high-speed rail industry in my country was still in its early stages of development and various technologies were relatively backward, it needed to bid for foreign companies to obtain advanced technology from foreign companies.
Zhang Shuguang always conducts research on the bidding foreign companies before bidding. Therefore, he is very clear about the prices and advantages and disadvantages of foreign companies' products, so he always has the advantage when bargaining with foreign companies. Once, the bidding price of Siemens 9 billion yuan was cut overnight, which became a good story in the industry!
In addition to excellent actual combat performance, Zhang Shuguang also made outstanding contributions in theory.
In the years when China's high-speed rail is booming, it is precisely because of the high-speed rail dynamic theory published by Zhang Shuguang that China's high-speed rail is above the world's top.
The high-speed rail theory book written by Zhang Shuguang
Not only that, he also wrote high-speed rail theory books such as "Theory and Practice of Ultra-large Engineering System Integration" and "Basic Theory and Engineering Technology of Application of Railway High-speed Trains", which provided a guiding light for later Chinese high-speed rail personnel. It is no exaggeration to say that he was the founder of my country's high-speed rail.
But it is precisely because of Zhang Shuguang's amazing talent that his corruption and depravity seem so regrettable.
paper can't contain the fire after all
In 2011, Zhang Shuguang's corruption was finally exposed, and he was immediately arrested.
Among the many criminal facts prosecuted by the procuratorate to prosecute Zhang Shuguang, the amount of bribes received in the first case alone was as high as more than 10.5 million yuan!
Between 2000 and 2011, Zhang Shuguang used his position to accept bribes from Yang Jianyu's legal person Yang Jianyu . In exchange, Zhang Shuguang provided assistance to Yang Jianyu's "Blue Arrow" train (a domestic high-speed rail train with backward technology) under Yang Jianyu's company, so that the "Blue Arrow" train, which should have retired early, remained in service.
According to Yang Jianyu's account, since Zhang Shuguang likes to collect, he sent Zhang Shuguang a large number of calligraphy, paintings and porcelain, and also sent Zhang Shuguang's lover Luo Mou to 10 watches and 300,000 yuan in car models, and also paid Luo Mou 16,000 yuan a month.
Zhang Shuguang confessed to the above facts.
In addition to money-right transactions, Zhang Shuguang also involves nepotism.
Luo
Zhang Shuguang's wife Wang Xing operated a train toilet trading abroad as early as the end of the last century. After Zhang Shuguang was quickly promoted to the director of the Transportation Bureau of the Ministry of Railways, Wang Xing happily took over the domestic high-speed rail toilet market.
You should know that the toilet container on the high-speed rail is often hundreds of thousands of yuan. At that time, under the operation of Zhang Shuguang and Wang Xing and his wife, 70% of the EMU toilet containers in the country were made by foreign companies, and the kickbacks alone were enough to make the two of them eat a lot.
In Zhang Shuguang's own opinion, this is a very formal business income, and the company's name is under the name of his wife Wang Xing, who is an American nationality, which has no impact on him at all.
It’s a pity that Zhang Shuguang’s statements were not recognized by the court. Except for 8 million yuan of Zhang Shuguang’s property, which was characterized by the court as mutual help from friends, the rest were treated as corruption and bribery.
In the end, the court sentenced Zhang Shuguang to death with a two-year reprieve and deprived of political rights for life.
However, contrary to the perception of most netizens, the "death reprieve" in my country's law does not mean shooting the prisoner again in two years, but if the prisoner does not intentionally commit a crime during the two-year probation period, the death penalty can be reduced to life imprisonment in two years.
The reason why Zhang Shuguang was sentenced to death sentence instead of immediately executed is probably a considerable reason for Zhang Shuguang's outstanding contribution to my country's high-speed rail industry.
In 2017, Zhang Shuguang's two-year probation period expired, and his punishment was reduced to life imprisonment.
Although it has been reduced from a reimbursement to a life imprisonment, Zhang Shuguang still has to spend the second half of his life in prison.
Zhang Shuguang has been greedying for most of his life, but he has no luck in enjoying it, which can be regarded as a wake-up call for other potential corrupt officials.
References: "Government Legal System"
