Beijing, January 19 (Xinhua) -- On January 19, the TV special "Zero Tolerance" broadcast the fifth episode of "Forever on the Road", which netizens said was "the annual anti-corruption blockbuster" to usher in the end.
In the final episode, Zhou Jiangyong, former member of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and former secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee, and Zhang Qi, former member of the Standing Committee of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee and former secretary of the Haikou Municipal Party Committee, two "tigers" who once ruled the provincial capital city, have a large number of corruption details disclosed.
Hangzhou "Tiger" Zhou Jiangyong Engages in "One Family, Two Systems"
The younger brother once collected more than 90 million yuan in "borrowing"
Born in September 1967, Zhou Jiangyong is a local cadre in Zhejiang, who has served in Ningbo, Zhoushan, Wenzhou and Hangzhou in Zhejiang. In February 2017, he was appointed secretary of the Wenzhou Municipal Party Committee, and in June of that year, he was appointed as a member of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, in May 2018 he was transferred to the Secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee, and in August 2021, he was investigated as a member of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and the Secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee.
"Forever on the Road" revealed that Zhejiang is an area where the market economy is active, and some leading cadres have the problem of engaging in "one family, two systems." This is the case with Zhou Jiangyong, who and his younger brother Zhou Jianyong, one engaged in politics and the other in business, used public power to help his brother in business.
In the feature film, Zhou Jianyong threw himself into the business sea, giving all kinds of merchants the opportunity to use him to hunt Zhou Jiangyong. Zhou Jiangyong acted as a patron for his brother's affiliated enterprises, not only providing assistance in business operations, but even interfering in the judiciary to help related companies evade criminal penalties in environmental pollution cases.
The feature film revealed that Shi Shihong, the owner of a construction company, took the initiative to find a relationship to get acquainted with Zhou Jianyong, and Zhou Jianyong also helped Shi Shihong contract the project through his brother, and the brothers jointly accepted huge bribes and then invested in the family business as capital. From 2013 to 2017, Zhou Jiangyong successively provided assistance to Shi Shihong in a number of projects involving Zhoushan and Wenzhou, in accordance with the request conveyed by Zhou Jianyong, and Zhou Jianyong accepted money from Shi Shihong eight times in the name of "borrowing", with a total amount of more than 90 million yuan.
Zhou Jiangyong believes that supervision can be circumvented by setting up a "firewall". In the process of accepting bribes from Shi Shihong, he and Shi Shihong never had contact, and they all used their brothers as a bridge.
"From the perspective of my case, I have now made serious mistakes and crimes, and I am full of regret, and this is really, really, very painful." Zhou Jiangyong confessed.
Zhang Qi, a "corrupt official with hundreds of millions of yuan", amassed wealth through his wife and children
He received less than 2 million yuan in bribes
Zhang Qi was born in March 1961 in Shou County, Anhui Province, and worked in Huainan City, Anhui Province in his early years. In the early 1990s, he came to Hainan and successively served as deputy director of the Hainan Provincial Administration for Industry and Commerce, head of the discipline inspection team, member of the Standing Committee of the Sanya Municipal Party Committee, vice mayor and deputy secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, director of the Hainan Provincial Tourism Bureau, mayor of Danzhou City, secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, and other positions. In September 2014, Zhang Qi became a member of the Standing Committee of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee, the following month he was transferred to the secretary of the Sanya Municipal Party Committee, and in November 2016, he went to haikou, the provincial capital, to serve as the secretary of the municipal party committee. In September 2019, Zhang Qi was investigated. On December 3, 2020, Zhang Qi was sentenced to life imprisonment for accepting bribes.
Zhang Qi has been deeply involved in Hainan for many years, and from 2005 to 2019, the amount of corruption during his tenure in Sanya, Danzhou and Haikou reached more than 107 million yuan.
It is worth mentioning that when he was "double-opened", the official informed Zhang Qi that he was "disloyal and dishonest to the party, deliberately resisted the organizational review, did not report personal matters according to regulations, and did not truthfully explain the problem when organizing the conversation." In "Forever on the Road", which was broadcast on the 19th, Zhang Qi's means of evading supervision were disclosed.
In terms of power and money transactions, of the more than 100 million yuan that Zhang Qi accepted bribes, he directly accepted less than 2 million yuan, and the rest were received through his wife and son, and he used "business investment" as a pretext. After the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the central authorities explicitly prohibited the spouses, children, and spouses of leading cadres from doing business and running enterprises within their jurisdiction. Qian Ling and Zhang Qi are typical of the front shop and the back factory.
In addition, the feature film revealed that during Zhang Qi's son Zhang Yan's study in Canada, a boss gave his son 100,000 Canadian dollars in front of Zhang Qi as "living expenses".
"His son also had a kind of learning, during his life in Canada, he asked his boss for money, asked for hundreds of thousands of Canadian dollars to buy a luxury car, and within a few days this car crashed, and then went to ask people for hundreds of thousands of Canadian dollars to repair the car." Liu Lifeng, a staff member of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission and the State Supervision Commission, introduced it.
After Zhang Yan returned from studying abroad and proposed to do business, Zhang Qi introduced various bosses to him and "borrowed" from the boss again as a capital. Luo Haiqiang, the actual controller of Hainan Jianfeng Tourism Development Company, "lent" Zhang Yan 30 million yuan, and in return, Zhang Qi provided help for Luo Haiqiang's enterprises in promoting land acquisition and demolition.
His son is wanted worldwide
Zhang Qi: I hope to persuade my son to come back
The feature film revealed that in September 2019, Zhang Qi was filed for review and investigation and taken lien measures. Because of the sheer amount of money his son was involved in, China issued a red notice to the world. Zhang Qi said that he was very sorry to let his son escape, hoping to persuade his son to come back during the review, he sent dozens of WeChat messages to his son, but his son never returned.
"I'm sorry for my 93-year-old father and 87-year-old mother, my mother said in particular, you can't take people's money, you can't ask for people's money, you can't ask for people's things. Once my wife went to the mall to buy something, with a shopping card, she accompanied my mother to shop, my mother saw it and asked her where the shopping card came from, my wife said that people sent it, my mother twisted her head at that time and left, let me go back. ”
Zhang Qi confessed: "I ruined this family, originally a family of four generations of the same family, old and young, and now it is fragmented." As a man, be loyal and filial, I am not only unable to be loyal to the country, but also a sinner of the country, and I cannot fulfill filial piety. (End)
Source: China News Network