On April 9, 2019, the Third Intermediate People's Court of Beijing publicly pronounced the case of Liu Qiang, former vice governor of the Liaoning Provincial People's Government, taking bribes and sabotaging the election. The defendant Liu Qiang was sentenced to eleven years in prison for accepting bribes and fined RMB 1.2 million; he was sentenced to two years in prison for destroying the election, and decided to execute twelve years in prison and fined RMB 1.2 million. The property and its proceeds obtained by Liu Qiang's bribes were recovered, the property used to destroy the election crime was confiscated, and the property was handed over to the state treasury. Liu Qiang expressed his obedience to the judgment and did not appeal.
After trial, it was found that from 2000 to 2017, the defendant Liu Qiang used his position as the Party Secretary and General Manager of Fushun Petrochemical Branch of China National Petroleum and Natural Gas Co., Ltd., Mayor of Fushun Municipal People's Government, Secretary of the Fushun Municipal Committee of Liaoning Province, and Vice Governor of the People's Government of Liaoning Province, and the convenient conditions formed by his duties and powers and status for relevant units and individuals to operate enterprises, undertake projects, and adjust their positions in business operations, project contracting, and position adjustments to relevant units and individuals in enterprise operations, project contracting, and project adjustments, As a result of help in matters such as providing assistance, illegally accepting property given by others directly or through specific person , equivalent to a total of more than 10.63 million yuan; from 2011 to January 2013, Liu Qiang was elected as the vice governor of the Liaoning Provincial People's Government, and used his powers and influence to serve as the Secretary of the Fushun Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, and used methods such as giving property to others and saying hello to conduct canvassing and bribery, destroying normal election activities, with serious circumstances and bad social impact.
Beijing Third Intermediate People's Court held that the defendant Liu Qiang's behavior constituted the crime of accepting bribes and sabotaging the election, and should be punished for multiple crimes in accordance with the law. Given that after Liu Qiang was arrested, he was able to truthfully confess his crimes, actively confessed most of the facts of bribery that the case handler did not yet grasp, pleaded guilty and repented, and actively returned the stolen money and property, and had all the stolen money and property, and had statutory and discretionary circumstances for lenient punishment, and he could be given a lenient punishment according to law. The court then made the above judgment.
(Source: "Beijing French Net Affairs" WeChat official account)
