Peng Bo was prosecuted

The Supreme People's Procuratorate informed on 11 June that the case of Peng Bo, former deputy director of the Office of the Central Leading Group for the Prevention and Handling of Cult Problems, was suspected of accepting bribes, which was investigated by the State Supervision Commission and designated by the Supreme People's Procuratorate and examined and prosecuted by the Wuxi Municipal People's Procuratorate in Jiangsu Province. Recently, the Wuxi Municipal People's Procuratorate of Jiangsu Province has filed a public prosecution with the Intermediate People's Court of Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province.

During the review and prosecution stage, the procuratorial organs informed the defendant Peng Bo of his procedural rights in accordance with the law, interrogated the defendant, and listened to the defender's opinions. The procuratorial organs indicted and accused: Defendant Peng Bo took advantage of his position as deputy director of the Network News and Propaganda Bureau, director of the Network News Coordination Bureau, director of the Network News Emergency Affairs Bureau of the CPC Central Committee's Foreign Propaganda Office, full-time deputy director of the State Internet Information Office, deputy director of the Office of the Central Leading Group for the Prevention and Handling of Cult Issues, and other convenient conditions for the formation of his authority or status, to provide assistance to others in the operation of enterprises and control of negative information on the Internet, and illegally accepted property from others, the amount of which was particularly huge. They shall be investigated for criminal responsibility for the crime of accepting bribes in accordance with law.

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On the afternoon of March 13, the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission published the news that Peng Bo was suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and was subject to disciplinary review and supervision and investigation.

On the morning of August 17, the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission announced that Peng Bo had been expelled from the party.

After investigation, Peng Bo's ideals and convictions have collapsed, he is disloyal to the party, he deviates from the decision and deployment of the party Central Committee on launching the struggle for public opinion on the Internet, abandons the management of the Internet front, uses public instruments for private use, relies on the Internet to eat the internet, resists organizational censorship, and engages in superstitious activities;

Violating the spirit of the eight provisions of the central government, entering and leaving private clubs in violation of regulations, and accepting banquets at public expense in violation of regulations;

Failure to report personal matters as required;

There is no bottom line of discipline and law, engaging in power and money transactions, and seeking benefits for relatives' business activities;

He used his position to seek benefits for others in business operations and other aspects, and illegally accepted huge amounts of money and property.

The circular pointed out that Peng Bo seriously violated the party's political discipline, organizational discipline, honesty discipline, work discipline, and life discipline, constituting a serious violation of official duties and suspected of accepting bribes, and still did not restrain and did not accept it after the Eighteenth National Congress of the Party.

In accordance with the "Regulations on Disciplinary Punishment of the Communist Party of China," the "Supervision Law of the People's Republic of China," the "Law of the People's Republic of China on The Punishment of Public Employees in Government Affairs," and other relevant provisions, after being studied by the Standing Committee of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission and reported to the CPC Central Committee for approval, it was decided to give Peng Bo the punishment of expulsion from the party; to cancel the treatment he enjoyed in accordance with regulations; to confiscate the proceeds of his violation of discipline and the law; and to transfer his suspected crimes to the procuratorial organs for examination and prosecution according to law, and the property involved was transferred together.