Warning Education Conference 7 financial "giant beetle" repented, some people greedily accepted hundreds of millions of bribes

On December 12, the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission released the news that at the recent warning education conference held by the party committee of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and the discipline inspection and supervision group of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, seven financial "giant beetles" of the ICBC system appeared in the warning education film.

Among the 7 financial "giant beetles", 4 were former leaders of provincial branches, some were sentenced to life imprisonment for accepting bribes of hundreds of millions, some "illegally issued loans, seriously damaging the political ecology of the financial institutions they worked in", and some "disregarded the safety of state-owned assets, and made up for personal investment losses by greeting and interfering in loan issuance and illegal approval of financial financing".

According to the report, during the two-hour meeting, from the main venue in Beijing to the video sub-venues in various places, all the party-member leading cadres at the deputy department level and above of the bank collectively received warning education and hit the "preventive injection" together. The party members and cadres of the ICBC attending the meeting held that the warning education is a "good medicine to wake up the brain" to remove the rotten muscles, and the cases in the circular and warning films are very shocking, and have released a strong signal that whoever violates party discipline and state law will resolutely deal with whoever violates party discipline and state law, regardless of the branch of the head office or the level of his position; it is necessary to draw a profound lesson from negative examples and abide by the bottom line of abiding by rules and discipline.

Who are the 7 financial "giant beetles"? Some people have been sentenced to life in prison for accepting bribes of hundreds of millions

Who are these 7 financial "giant beetles" of the ICBC system?

According to the report, "Xie Ming, Gu Guoming, Xu Weidong, Wang Yingkui, Lu Jian, Zhang Youfu, Lu Jinwen ... The 7 management cadres of the ICBC Party Committee who were investigated and punished appeared one after another on the big screen, and the confession from the bottom of their hearts struck their hearts. ”

Why were they investigated?

Xie Ming, former member of the party committee and vice president of ICBC Chongqing Branch, held this position for 11 years and retired in October 2017; two years after retirement, he was investigated on April 11, 2019. In October 2019, Xie Ming was expelled from the party, and reported that he was corrupt and extravagant in his life, had an improper family style, was unruly and unruly to his children, and indulged in indulgence; economically greedy, colluded with illegal private business owners, was willing to be "hunted", directly intervened in and interfered in the approval of credit projects, engaged in power and money transactions, illegally issued loans, and seriously undermined the political ecology of the financial institutions he worked for.

According to reports, when Xie Ming was the vice president of the Chongqing branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, he used his authority to help enterprises obtain loans in a number of corporate loans, involving hundreds of millions of dollars.

Xie Ming was once disclosed by the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission as a "two-faced person" with different words and deeds: When attending democratic life meetings, he often said that he should be innocent, sober in his work, and honest as an official, and he would not restrain himself until after retirement; he often said that he wanted to comprehensively investigate hedonism and extravagance, but he accepted luxurious banquets organized by business owners in internal restaurants; he often said that he wanted to take the initiative to control substantive risks, but when he encountered enterprises with interests, he opened the door to convenience; he handed in gifts and gifts from time to time, and also deliberately arranged for others to do it on their behalf. In order to enhance the effect of word of mouth, it was discovered after the incident that this was just the tip of the iceberg of his huge bribes. In October 2017, the person in charge of a private enterprise agreed to give Xie Ming 10 million yuan in the name of hiring a "consultant" after the expiration of the three-year ban period for Xie Ming's retirement, and pay it in 10 years. The "consultant fee" of 10 million yuan was attempted due to Xie Ming's downfall.

Gu Guoming, former party secretary and president of ICBC Shanghai Branch, was vice president and president of ICBC Shanghai Branch for 17 years until he was investigated in June 2019. On the morning of August 12 this year, Gu Guoming was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People's Court in the first instance. According to the first-instance judgment, he took advantage of his positions in charge of the credit approval department, credit management department, and presiding over the work of the whole bank to provide assistance to relevant units and individuals in handling financing loans, project allocation, contracting projects and other matters, seeking benefits, and accepting bribes equivalent to more than 136 million yuan.

On the morning of July 7, 2020, Gu Guoming was tried. Infographic

According to an article published on the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission, Gu Guoming is a "two-faced man, and he is quietly greedy through options corruption and holding on behalf of others; in order to cover up corrupt behavior, he also deliberately makes a superficial fuss through various major and small matters. "In the exchange with private entrepreneurs, how to grasp yourself is an important issue." Gu Guoming once summoned the presidents of 31 branches of the Shanghai branch to sign a letter of responsibility, one of the important contents of which was that "dealing with private enterprises must ensure integrity." During the talks on honest government, Gu Guoming asked cadres not only to refuse gifts and gifts, but also to handle well the relationship with business development, and talked about their experience in skillfully refusing gifts. He cut hair, washed, and sent off old comrades in the unit out of his own pocket, and the party fee paid took the initiative to increase the calculation standard. Many people were deeply impressed by the party lessons taught by Gu Guoming, and he often took out the manuscript and quoted the scriptures. Less well known is that after an impassioned party lesson, the teacups in the conference room are still warm, and he has asked drivers to increase the throttle and rush to various high-end meeting places.

Gu Guoming's "greed is silent" is vividly manifested in the investigation and confiscation of his bribes. According to the court's judgment, after the defendant Gu Guoming arrived at the case, in addition to truthfully confessing the criminal facts involving bribes of 5.8613 million yuan that the case-handling organs already had, he also took the initiative to confess other criminal facts that the case-handling organs did not have grasped, totaling more than 131 million yuan in bribes.

During the period of retention, Gu Guoming finally recognized himself: "I am not only greedy for money, but greedy for everything." They want to get rich, but they are not willing to give up the power in their hands and the social status they have achieved, and they want to use their power to make greater wealth, and then seek greater power to serve their own private interests. He confessed: "Since joining the party in 1993, I have not seriously participated in organizational life for many years. How ironic it is to revisit the oath of joining the party in the liuzhi room today! ”

The gu guoming and Xie ming cases are the two most typical corruption cases that ICBC has investigated and handled in recent years, which are "shocking!" After the incident, ICBC concentrated on two months to carry out special education and rectification in the whole bank, and strived to achieve the comprehensive effect of "investigating and handling one case, educating one piece, saving a batch, and standardizing one party" by making good use of Gu Guoming and Xie Ming's circulars and confessions on violations of discipline and law, conscientiously carrying out "ten investigations", holding special organizational life meetings, formulating and issuing disciplinary inspection recommendations or supervision recommendations, and effectively implementing rectification and reform.

Xu Weidong, former member of the party committee and deputy general manager of ICBC's Private Banking Department, was investigated on January 17, 2020, and expelled from the party and dismissed from public office in October of the same year. According to the circular, Xu Weidong has lost his ideals and convictions, betrayed his original mission, has no principle of party spirit, has engaged in gangs and gangs, colluded in confessions, and transferred hidden property involved in the case, resisted organizational examination, and did not believe in Marxism-Leninism and ghosts; in violation of the spirit of the eight central regulations, he accepted gifts, entered and left private clubs, and buses for private use for a long time in violation of the law, and will be paid by others for expenses that should be borne by himself; nepotism and intervening in the selection and appointment of cadres, and seeking benefits for others in the promotion of posts; and serious irresponsibility in work and causing major asset losses Deviate from family virtues. Greedy for money and amassed wealth, using the decision-making power of the state-owned financial resources in hand to seek benefits for others, and illegally accepting huge amounts of money and property.

Wang Yingkui, former deputy general manager of ICBC's financial business department, was investigated in August 2020, when he had been retired for five years. At present, the results of the official investigation of its review have not been disclosed.

Zhang Youfu, a former member of the party committee and vice president of the Henan branch of ICBC, was investigated on March 30 this year, and he has held this position for ten years, and was expelled from the party and dismissed from public office on August 20 this year. The circular said that Zhang Youfu lost his ideals and convictions, betrayed his original mission, had a weak political consciousness, ignored party discipline and state law, disregarded the security of state-owned assets, and made up for personal investment losses by interfering in the issuance of loans and handling financial financing in violation of regulations; violated the spirit of the eight central regulations, accepted banquets from management service recipients in violation of the law, and accepted large gifts and gifts on many occasions; engaged in power-money transactions, took advantage of his position to provide assistance to others and accepted property in violation of the law in the promotion of cadres and the recruitment of employees; and engaged in profit-making activities in violation of the law. Holding shares in unlisted companies, illegally investing in corporate customers for improper returns, corrupt lifestyle, and pursuing low-level fun.

Lu Jinwen, former member of the Party Committee and vice president of the Guangdong Branch of ICBC, was investigated on September 27 this year, and he served as a member of the party committee and deputy general manager of the sales department of the Guangdong Branch of ICBC, deputy secretary of the party committee and deputy general manager of the Guangdong Branch of ICBC, a member of the party committee and vice president of the Guangdong Branch of ICBC in August 2017, and a senior expert of the Guangdong Branch of ICBC in December 2020.

Another person is Lu Jian, who played the warning education film on the Lu Jian case "Overseas Is Not a Lawless Land" at the warning education conference on the same day, which was the first time that the official disclosed the news of Lu Jian's investigation and punishment, and the details of the case have not yet been disclosed.

We should resolutely eradicate the "hotbeds" that breed corruption and strictly prevent the change from wind to corruption

At the warning education meeting, in addition to the fallen officials "speaking by example" on the big screen, the discipline inspection and supervision team stationed at the ICBC also reported 13 typical cases in four categories, including cases of violating the spirit of the eight central regulations, typical cases of grass-roots banks, cases of serious violations of discipline and law, and cases of being held accountable for major losses caused by ineffective performance of management responsibilities since 2021:

Some "have gone to Beijing 28 times to play golf, and the fees are paid by the service management object";

Some "embezzle customer funds by forging certificates of deposit and other means on the pretext of helping customers snap up high-interest rate and large-amount savings products";

Some "disregard party discipline and state law, interfere with loan issuance by greeting, and handle financing in violation of regulations to make up for personal investment losses";

Some "do not have a strong sense of party spirit, lack of spirit of struggle, violate the party's work discipline, and bear corresponding responsibilities for huge amounts of non-performing loans"...

Chen Siqing, secretary of the party committee and chairman of the board of directors of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, stressed: Party members and leading cadres at all levels of the bank must take the case as a lesson and the alarm bells must always sound, always be loyal to the party, always strengthen ideals and convictions, always keep firmly in mind the original mission, always strengthen honesty and self-discipline, and resolutely build an ideological defense line against corruption and degeneration.

Chen Siqing stressed: We should resolutely implement the political responsibility of administering the party in an all-round and strict manner, persist in the main tone of "strictness" for a long time, further consolidate the main responsibilities of party committees at all levels, the responsibility of the first responsible person of party committee secretaries, the "double responsibility of one post" of leading bodies, and the special responsibility of discipline inspection committees for supervision, and strengthen the joint force of managing the party and administering the party. Strengthen supervision over the "number one" and the leading bodies, promote the "number one leaders" at all levels to set an example, consciously accept supervision in all aspects, strengthen supervision over the members of the leading bodies at the same level, and jointly grasp the supervision of the "number one leaders" and the leading bodies at lower levels. We should promote as a whole that we do not dare to be corrupt, cannot be corrupt, and do not want to be corrupt; we must always adhere to the powerful deterrent of "punishment," make efforts to strengthen the comprehensive effectiveness of "governance," consolidate and amplify the basic role of "education," integrate the fight against the "four winds" with anti-corruption, combine the grasp of the "key minority" with the management of the "overwhelming majority," integrate the rectification of the "four winds" and the new winds, resolutely eradicate the "hotbeds" that breed corruption, and strictly prevent the change from wind to corruption.

Text: Liang Jianzhong