Zou Mingyong, male, Han nationality , was born in February 1968. He started working in August 1992 and joined the Communist Party of China in June 1995. He once served as deputy director of the Key Construction Project Office of Ziyang City, Sichuan Province, deputy director of the Ziyang City Transportation Bureau, member of the Standing Committee of the Anyue County Party Committee and deputy county head of Sichuan Province, deputy secretary and county head of the Anyue County Party Committee, deputy secretary-general of the Ziyang Municipal Government, and office party group member.
In November 2019, the Ziyang Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision launched a case review and investigation into Zou Mingyong’s suspected serious violations of discipline and law, and took detention measures. In July 2020, after the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Ziyang Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection studied and reported to the Municipal Party Committee for approval, Zou Mingyong was expelled from the party; the Municipal Supervisory Committee gave him the sanction of expulsion from public office, and his suspected criminal issues were transferred to the procuratorial organs for review and prosecution in accordance with the law. On June 15, 2021, the Ziyang Intermediate People's Court sentenced Zou Mingyong to to 315 years in prison for bribery and abuse of power, and was fined 2 million yuan.
Yearned for power and wanted to be a local official. His businessman boss called him "boss"
In 1968, Zou Mingyong was born in a poor family in Ziyang. There were 6 brothers and sisters in the family. They often did not have enough to eat. The whole family worked hard when he was young. , The picture of difficult life is deeply engraved in Zou Mingyong's mind. "My childhood experience had a great impact on me. I just wanted to go out and make a difference. My family also supported me very much. They saved money and food to support my education," Zou Mingyong said.
In 1988, Zou Mingyong was admitted to university and got out of farming as he wished. After graduating from university, he was assigned to work in the Legislative Affairs Bureau of Neijiang Municipal Government and entered the government agency from the school gate.
"When I first started working, like most young people, I devoted myself to study and work with passion and the dream of achieving a career. Because I was diligent and willing to work hard, I quickly gained recognition from the organization. Recognized. Within a few years, I was promoted step by step from a staff member of the Neijiang City Legal Affairs Bureau to the Secretary and Section Chief of the Municipal Government Office, and the journey was relatively smooth." Looking back on his struggle, Zou Mingyong was filled with emotion.
During this period, the organization considered selecting him to work in a provincial department, but he politely declined. Zou Mingyong told the investigators: "At that time, I wanted to be the chief official. I felt that the shortcut to success in my career was at the grassroots level, and the foundation was at the grassroots level. Only those who are in charge can make a difference. After careful consideration, my yearning for power made me make the choice to give up. "
In September 2010, due to his outstanding work performance, Zou Mingyong was appointed by the organization as deputy secretary of the Anyue County Party Committee and county magistrate. Zou Mingyong, who became the chief official of the local government as he wished, was full of enthusiasm and believed that he had power and would soon be able to realize his value and become the pride of his family.
Anyue County is located between Chengdu and Chongqing. The local people are deeply influenced by Bashu culture. They are enthusiastic, generous and upright. Zou Mingyong feels that Anyuehtm These character traits of l3 are very consistent with his own. Some businessmen and bosses took advantage of his mentality and offered him food, drinks, money and gifts. They gradually became "good buddies" with him, and Zou Mingyong was also "loyal". Often stand up for business owners and provide help.
"Power is really a good thing." Seeing more and more businessmen and bosses serving him, Zou Mingyong's vanity is growing day by day, and he has thrown out the warning that "power is given by the people, and benefits are sought by the people."
After some time, there were rumors in the local political and business circles that "County Magistrate Zou is upright, dignified, and focused on structure", and business bosses called him "Uncle Zou" and "Boss". In this regard, Zou Mingyong said frankly: "I was not used to it at first, but gradually I got used to it, and I even felt that these titles were respect for myself and a title among my own people." The influence of
on business bosses Later, Zou Mingyong became more "fashionable". He became keen on wearing famous brands, drinking famous wines, and visiting high-end places, and his consumption level also increased accordingly. Zou Mingyong told the investigators: "That's when I began to pursue the 'double harvest' of power and wealth. I wanted both power and money. I thought that having both would be the 'winner in life.' World view, outlook on life, values Severely distorted."
In the face of hunting, he took the initiative to make money crazily and received more than 54.31 million yuan in property.
In 2000, Zou Mingyong was transferred back to the Ziyang Municipal Government Office from the Neijiang Municipal Government Office. At a dinner, he met Yu, the boss of a company in Ziyang. They talked happily.
After that, Yu often invited Zou Mingyong to dinner, and their friendship gradually deepened. They go to bars, clubs and other high-end places to spend money. Zou Mingyong thinks that he has a good relationship with Yu and is a "good brother" who "shares blessings and hardships".
In 2010, Zou Mingyong became Anyue. After becoming the county magistrate, Yu thought that his opportunity to make money had come. In the first half of 2011, Yu approached Zou Mingyong and asked him to help coordinate the project. Although Yu did not specify the details of the return, Zou Mingyong knew his work style and decided to do so. He readily agreed. Afterwards, Zou Mingyong approached the county leader in charge of urban construction at the time and successfully helped Yu obtain two construction projects with a total investment of more than 500 million yuan, namely a resettlement housing community and a highway connection road in Anyue County. After the investment contract was signed, Yu planned to give Zou Mingyong a thank you fee of 3 million yuan. After several trials, Zou Mingyong made it clear that the money was short and rejected his "good intention"
considering future projects. Zou Mingyong's support was still needed to advance, so Yu discussed with his partners and decided to give Zou Mingyong 20% of the total profits from the above two projects, which would be paid after the projects were settled. In February 2013, Yu and others made an appointment with Zou Mingyong at a certain company in Chengdu. During the meal at the restaurant, I proposed the above idea to Zou Mingyong, and Zou Mingyong agreed.
In 2015, the highway connection project was completed and accepted, but the resettlement housing project has not yet been completed and cannot be determined. After discussion, Yu and others decided to use the project’s estimated profit of 50 million yuan as the standard, and then pay Zou Mingyong a benefit fee of 10 million yuan at the pre-agreed ratio of 20%. Zou Mingyong agreed with this, and the two parties agreed to pay after obtaining the full investment return of the project. .
In August 2018, after the investment funds and returns for the two projects were paid, Yu proposed to Zou Mingyong to pay the agreed benefit fee and proposed two methods. The first plan is to directly give 10 million yuan in cash; the second is to continue investing the 10 million yuan in the real estate project developed by Yu, and the principal can be withdrawn at any time and the guaranteed interest will be given to the bank for the same period. After thinking about it, Zou Mingyong decided to invest the 10 million yuan. Yuan invested in the real estate project developed by Yu and continued to make profits.
In addition to receiving benefits from Yu, Zou Mingyong also supplemented the construction project of the Anyue branch of a company in the Nanshan area. Provided assistance in contract signing, land bidding deposit payment, payment allocation, etc., and received more than 5.87 million yuan in favors; adjusted the architectural design plan for a certain company's project, contracted a certain resettlement area construction project, and a certain highway (Anyue Section) interconnection provided help for the online construction project and received 5.52 million yuan in cash from Zhou Moumou, a shareholder of the company; contracted and assisted a company to invest and develop a hotel project in Anyue County provided assistance in signing agreements, supporting preferential policies, and adjusting the floor area ratio of real estate development projects, etc., and accepted 9.6 million yuan in cash from the legal representative of the company on behalf of a certain person...
After investigation, Zou Mingyong was serving as the county magistrate of Anyue County and the Ziyang Municipal Government. During his tenure as deputy secretary-general, he took advantage of his position to seek benefits for 26 units or individuals, receiving property equivalent to a total of more than 54.31 million yuan in RMB.
"How could I collect so much money? I actually collected so much money!" During the detention period, Zou Mingyong recalled and calculated every property he received, and looked at the astonishing figure of more than 54.31 million yuan after accumulation. Only then did he realize that he had made a serious mistake and it would be difficult to turn back.
In order to make the family live a more dignified life, he took his nephew and brother-in-law on a corrupt journey.
Zou Mingyong used the power in his hands to gain a lot of benefits. While his living standards improved, he thought of seeking some benefits for his relatives, "I have been growing up since I was a child. Coming out of a mountain village, My brothers and sisters have paid a lot for me to study, and I have always been grateful to them. I just want to not only live a good life myself, but also use the power in my hands to make the whole family live a more decent life."
is in the wrong. Under the influence of his thoughts, Zou Mingyong's corruption led to the corruption of his entire family. Soon, his brother-in-law Jiang and nephew Zou Jun became his companions on the road to corruption.
In 2012, after Jiang Mou (handled in another case) retired from the Ziyang Municipal Transportation Bureau, he approached his brother-in-law Zou Mingyong, who was the county magistrate in Anyue: "I am retired now and feel like I can do something else. Can you think of something?" Find a way for me to make money?" Zou Mingyong immediately agreed: "No problem."
In September 2012, Zou Mingyong used his position to help a company contract a construction project. Later, Zou Mingyong greeted the person in charge of the company and asked Jiang to undertake the supervision of the project.
In June 2013, Jiang successfully won the bid by borrowing the qualifications of an supervision company. However, after winning the bid, Jiang did not actually implement the project. Due to Zou Mingyong's face, from 2016 to 2018, the company's project leader Tan still paid Jiang a total of 568,000 yuan in supervision fees.
In addition to Jiang, Zou Mingyong’s nephew Zou Jun (handled in a separate case) was also dragged into the quagmire of corruption.
In 2011, Zou Moujun purchased several shops in a property developed by Lu Company. After paying a deposit of 500,000 yuan, he was still unable to pay the balance of more than 4.8 million yuan. When Zou Jun was at a loss what to do, the developer Lu took the initiative to call him: "I have something I want to talk to your uncle about. If you can help coordinate it, the house payment can be covered."
Zou Jun knew clearly, Lu wanted to find Zou Mingyong through him and ask him to take care of and help Lu's company. "Let me give it a try." Under the temptation of a huge sum of money, Zou Moujun told Zou Mingyong about the matter. "I understand, leave the payment to me." Zou Mingyong agreed.
According to investigations, from 2012 to 2014, Zou Mingyong took advantage of his position as the county magistrate of Anyue County to provide assistance in signing supplementary contracts for construction projects of a company in Lu, paying deposits for land auctions, and allocating funds. In August 2014, with Zou Mingyong's consent, Lu exempted Zou from paying the purchase price and taxes for his store, totaling more than 4.87 million yuan.
If a family "gathers together" to commit corruption, it will inevitably lead to the abyss. On the road to corruption, Zou Mingyong's nephew and brother-in-law were also severely punished by the law.
In July 2020, the People's Court of Anyue County sentenced Zou to 11 years in prison for accepting bribes and fined him 800,000 yuan. In December 2020, the Yanjiang District People's Court of Ziyang City sentenced Jiang to 5 years' imprisonment and a fine of 300,000 yuan for accepting bribes, and the Ziyang Municipal Transportation Bureau canceled his retirement benefits.
"My nephew used my influence to do business, and the businessmen used him to pay bribes, which ultimately brought him jail time. My brother-in-law used my authority and influence to do projects, take projects, and make illegal profits, and eventually he also embarked on a career path The path of crime. I have a distorted outlook on life. I am corrupt and have brought my family into it, causing several families to lose their happiness. The price is too heavy," Zou Mingyong confessed in the detention room .
acted arbitrarily, openly overturned the resolution of the County Party Committee Standing Committee, and turned non-compliance into "compliance" regardless of work principles
"Zou Mingyong acted in a domineering and tyrannical manner. He was quite courageous. In addition to taking the initiative to ask for bribes, , raking in money wantonly, and being arbitrary and unbiased at work. "According to the investigators, when he was the county magistrate of Anyue County, Zou Mingyong used power arbitrarily and acted recklessly, even openly overturning the resolutions of the County Party Committee Standing Committee and disregarding work principles." One master."
In 2011, Huang Moumou, the person in charge of a hotel in Anyue County, learned that Dai Moumou, another local hotel investor, had received huge financial preferential support funds through Zou Mingyong. Huang Moumou hurriedly visited Zou Mingyong, used money to "clear the way", and proposed to expand the construction of a hot spring tourist resort hotel on the original site of the hotel 3 kilometers away from the county seat, hoping that he would help provide the same preferential support policies. Under the "bombing" of money, Zou Mingyong agreed to Huang Moumou's request.
The planned land area of the hotel is nearly 190 acres, including 119 acres of the hotel’s original land and 70 acres of land that has not been acquired or demolished. According to relevant regulations, the above two land parcels cannot be listed for sale at the same time.
In order to alleviate the financial pressure on other projects, Huang Moumou proposed to Zou Mingyong that after winning the bid for 119 acres of land, he would start paying the preferential support funds. However, the main building of the hot spring tourist resort hotel project is designed on a 70-acre plot. When the main building project plot has not been successfully auctioned, it is obviously illegal to receive preferential support funds in advance.
However, things that were obviously non-compliant turned into "compliant" in Zou Mingyong's hands. In order to fulfill his promise to Huang, Zou Mingyong bypassed the county leaders in charge and directly arranged for the county tourism bureau to write the content of "advance payment of financial preferential support funds" into the contract for review. However, Zou Mingyong's "arrangement" did not go smoothly. The county party committee's Standing Committee rejected this clause when reviewing the draft for review.
But Zou Mingyong did not give up. He ignored the objections of the functional departments and openly violated the resolution of the County Party Committee Standing Committee when reviewing the contract that "the preferential support funds can only be paid after all the land for the project is won." He asked the County Finance Bureau to pay the preferential support funds in advance. After investigation, it was found that during this period, Zou Mingyong received a total of 7.92 million yuan in property from Huang Moumou many times.
"I know very well that going against the laws of the market and the resolutions of the County Party Committee Standing Committee will bring a lot of trouble to myself and the local area. But I was blinded by the desire for profit at the time, and I acted recklessly and recklessly." Zou Mingyong said .
It is reported that a hot spring tourist resort hotel in Anyue County has not yet started construction, but has paid financial preferential support funds in advance. Zou Mingyong's behavior caused huge losses to state-owned assets. At present, the preferential support funds paid in advance for this project have been used to recover losses through other government cooperation projects.
trapped itself in a cocoon, Zou Mingyong wrote in his confession: "I supported the establishment of a five-star hotel that went against market demand; I provided generous support policies in the context of local finance being overwhelmed and struggling; in the face of state-owned enterprises In case of loss of assets, early redemption discount I have operated the policy... and the result is undoubtedly that I have fallen into an irreversible situation. "
Zou Mingyong is in charge of the party. He is supposed to seek welfare for the people and development for the local area, but he treats public power as a private weapon and pursues his own interests. On the road of self-interest, he does not hesitate to take risks to open the door for business bosses. What he did had a negative impact on the local political ecology and economic development, and also pushed him into the abyss of crime, and eventually he became a prisoner. This is thought-provoking and thought-provoking. (Correspondent Fang Dibing Yang Hong)
Source: Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and National Supervisory Commission website
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