Written by | Meng Yaxu
htmlOn November 9, the Supreme People's Procuratorate held a press conference to inform the national procuratorate of applying special procedures for confiscation of illegal income and handling cases of duty crimes, and released the 32nd batch of guiding cases of the Supreme People's Procuratorate.
Zheng Zhijun learned from the press conference that From January 2018 to November 2021, the procuratorates across the country accepted 74,869 cases of various types of duty crimes 89,650 people, and have filed public prosecutions of 58,122 cases involving 73,488 people, of which 82 former provincial and ministerial-level cadres were prosecuted. 48 corrupt officials who fled and died were filed for the confiscation of illegal income.
Zheng Zhijun noticed that in the guiding cases released this time, more details of the case of the dead "tiger" Ren Runhou were also revealed.
was dismissed from the party for 10 days and died of illness after being expelled from the party for half a year
Let me first talk about who is Ren Runhou.
Public information shows that Ren Runhou, male, born on October 19, 1957, Han nationality, from Dai County, Shanxi Province, doctoral education, former vice governor of Shanxi Province, former chairman and general manager of Shanxi Lu'an Mining (Group) Co., Ltd., and chairman of Shanxi Lu'an Environmental Protection Energy Development Co., Ltd.
On September 20, 2014, Ren Runhou was dismissed for serious violations of discipline and died of illness 10 days later.
Half a year after Ren Runhou's death (On April 13, 2015), the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced the decision to be expelled from the Party by Ren Runhou's serious violations of discipline and law.
reported that Ren Runhou violated the regulations on integrity and self-discipline and accepted gifts; embezzled public funds; seriously violated political rules and organizational discipline, sought benefits for others in the selection and appointment of cadres, accepted bribes, and bribed others. Corruption, bribery, and bribery are suspected of crimes.
Three years after his death, in July 2017, the Yangzhou Intermediate People's Procuratorate publicly sentenced the case of the confiscation of Ren Runhou's application for bribery, embezzlement, and huge amounts of illegal income from unknown sources of property.
The court ruled to confiscate the illegal income of the suspect Ren Runhou, RMB 12.95562708 million, HKD 42975768 million, USD 1.04294699 million, Euro 213.20057 million, Canadian dollars 10,000 yuan, interest, and 135 items, and handed over to the state treasury.
At that time, the court found that:
- From 2001 to 2013, Ren Runhou took advantage of his position as chairman of Shanxi Lu'an Mining (Group) Co., Ltd., chairman of Shanxi Lu'an Environmental Protection Energy Development Co., Ltd., and vice governor of Shanxi Province to illegally accept property for the relevant requestors, as well as requesting property from relevant personnel of subordinate units and managed units with administrative management relationships and requesting personal expenses to be reimbursed, totaling RMB 2.23505549 million.
- illegally embezzled public property, totaling RMB 441,6738 million.
- Ren Runhou and his relatives cannot explain the source of his property of RMB 12.655627.08 million, some foreign currency and items.
requested 700,000 yuan for election bribes
htmlOn December 9, the Supreme People's Procuratorate disclosed more details of the Ren Runhou case.
According to the situation previously found by the court, Ren Runhou received more than 2 million bribes, and of the more than 2 million, 700,000 were used for election bribery.
In the case of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, it was mentioned that from 001 to 2013, Ren Runhou had provided assistance to relevant requesters on promotion and adjustment in terms of position, and asked relevant personnel of subordinate units for RMB 700,000 for election bribes.
Zheng Zhijun also noticed that in 2017, the "China Judgment Documents Network" published the "Ren Runhou's First Instance Criminal Ruling".
It mentioned that in 2007, Ren Runhou instructed Guo, deputy general manager of Lu'an Group, to ask for 150,000 yuan from Wang A, the then director of Changcun Coal Mine of Lu'an Environmental Energy Company, to use Ren Runhou to run for provincial reserve cadres in Shanxi Province to purchase bribery gifts.
In 2010, in order to become the vice governor of Shanxi Province, he instructed Guo to demand 300,000 and 250,000 from the mine managers of the two mines, both for the bribery expenses of the vice governor of Shanxi Province.
On the afternoon of January 23, 2011, the Fifth Session of the Eleventh People's Congress of Shanxi Province held its fourth plenary meeting, and Ren Runhou was elected as Vice Governor of Shanxi Province.
It is worth mentioning that in Henan, there is also a chairman of the coal industry group who was elected as vice governor on the same day - Chen Xuefeng, former vice governor of Henan.
This Chen Xuefeng is the "second tiger" in Henan. He once allocated tens of millions of advertising fees to successfully run for the vice governor. At that time, the outdoor billboards of , Henan Expressway , TV and newspapers were all advertisements of Henan Coal Chemical Group .
Back to Ren Runhou.
The above ruling also disclosed a detail, that is, From 2011 to 2013, Ren Runhou received a total of 150,000 yuan in cash in Hong at his home and hospital ward three times.
In addition to bribery, Ren Runhou's bribes were also used for recuperation.
The Supreme People's Procuratorate disclosed that Ren Runhou asked the managed units with administrative management relationship to pay for travel and recuperation expenses for them, totaling more than RMB 1.23 million; and accepted a total of RMB 300,000 from others.
The above-mentioned judicial document mentioned that the official who was elected vice governor of Shanxi in 2011 asked the former unit Lu'an Group to arrange travel and recuperation for him in the second half of his election.
Later, accompanied by Mao, then secretary of the board of directors of Lu'an Environmental Energy Company, Ren Runhou and his family visited Shanghai, Sanya, Hangzhou, Suzhou and other places for tourism and recuperation. Lu'an Group spent a total of 1.23505549 million yuan for this.
The case of the Supreme People's Procuratorate also disclosed details of Ren Runhou's criminal facts about the source of huge amounts of property.
- From September 2000 to August 2014, Ren Runhou and his relatives had a total of more than RMB 31 million, more than RMB 430,000, more than RMB 1.04 million, more than RMB 210,000 in the euro, more than RMB 100,000 in Canadian dollars, and 100 in the pound; 155 items such as jewelry, jade, gold products, calligraphy and paintings, watches, etc.
- Ren Runhou's legal income and the property that his relatives can explain is more than RMB 18.35 million, HK$800, US$1,489, Euro 875, and GBP132; 20 items.
- Ren Runhou's relatives seized and frozen more than 12.65 million yuan, more than 420,000 Hong Kong dollars, more than 1.04 million US dollars, more than 210,000 euros, more than 135 items that were seized and frozen in the case cannot explain the source.
case handling details disclosure
The Supreme People's Procuratorate also disclosed the case handling details.
During the case handling, the procuratorate conducted a key review of Ren Runhou himself and his transfer to his relatives' property, Ren Runhou's family expenditure and legal income.
By seizing, seizing, seizing, and freezing more than 270 bank accounts involved in the case, and reviewing and collecting evidence on more than 160 witnesses, they found out the expenditure and income of Ren Runhou's family property.
According to the verification situation, the total cost of Ren Runhou’s family’s house purchase, car purchase cost, daughter’s study abroad fee, marriage gift and debt rights was included in the scope of major expenditures and included in the total property.
For the relevant evidence and the legal source of the salary bonus, rent income, house sales income, investment profit, etc., totaling more than 18.06 million yuan, as well as watches, jade, gold products and other items, the total amount of property involved in the case will be deducted according to law.
minus the amount of property and family expenditures under the name of the suspect and his relatives, and the income from the legal income of the family and their close relatives, which can explain the legal source. As the illegal income of Ren Runhou is suspected of the crime of 's huge amount of property and unknown source, he filed an application for confiscation of illegal income.
The Supreme People's Procuratorate mentioned that if a person suspected of major crimes such as corruption and bribery dies before filing a case, the illegal income confiscation procedure may be applied in accordance with the law.
The purpose of the illegal income confiscation procedure is to resolve the recovery of illegal income and other property involved in the case, and is not to pursue criminal liability for the respondent.
If a person suspected of committing major crimes such as corruption and bribery, he or she should recover his or her criminal proceeds and other property involved in the case in accordance with the provisions of the Criminal Law , the illegal income confiscation procedure can be applied regardless of whether he or she dies before the case is filed or the suspect or defendant died in the lawsuit after the case is filed.
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