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Through his wife's bribery, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for more than 100 million yuan, and his son was wanted for hiding overseas

author:Southern Metropolis Daily

On the evening of January 19, the fifth episode of the anti-corruption feature film "Zero Tolerance", "Forever on the Road", was broadcast on CCTV, revealing a typical case of family-style corruption that abused power for personal gain and did not distinguish between relatives and relatives, and Zhang Qi, former member of the Standing Committee of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee and former secretary of the Haikou Municipal Party Committee, used his power to help others in land development, project contracting, project promotion and other matters, and accepted bribes of more than 107 million yuan through his wife. Under the influence of Zhang Qi, his son Zhang Yan also embarked on the road of no return for violating discipline and law, and has now carried the red notice on his back to hide in Tibet overseas.

According to the official website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission, Zhang Qi was the first central management cadre to be investigated and punished since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China. In 1988, Zhang Qi, who was in his early 20s, came to Hainan under the call of "100,000 talents to go to Hainan", and in the past few decades, he was promoted from the grassroots level to the standing committee of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee and the secretary of the Haikou Municipal Party Committee, but finally lost his original intention.

Through his wife's bribery, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for more than 100 million yuan, and his son was wanted for hiding overseas

Zhang Qi describes himself in the film. Screenshot of CCTV

The husband and wife duo "front shop and back factory", after serving as provincial and ministerial officials, accepted bribes of up to 101 million yuan

According to the official website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission, Zhang Qi has been deeply engaged in Hainan for more than 30 years. He abused public power, used his power for profit, skillfully set up land reclamation in the name of the sea, developed it in violation of the law, and turned land resources into a cake that was arbitrarily cut and a tool for making money.

The feature film revealed that Zhang Qi resigned his job in his hometown in Anhui to develop in Hainan in 1988 under the call of "100,000 talents going to Hainan", and he was also full of passion when he was in his 20s, hoping to make a career here. He started from the grassroots level, and in the past few decades, he has been promoted step by step, successively serving as the secretary of the danzhou, sanya, and haikou municipal party committees, but in the process of power growth, he gradually lost his original intention of breaking into Hainan.

Liu Lifeng, a staff member of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission, said that after Zhang Qi became a provincial and ministerial cadre in 2014, he accepted bribes of about 101 million yuan. Judging from his political experience, he was also a promising young man, and after becoming a cadre at the provincial and ministerial levels, he had great power in his hands, and at this time he completely forgot who I was and for whom I was.

According to reports, Zhang Qi and his wife Qian Ling are typical of "front shop and back factory" type of corruption. When Zhang Qi was the secretary of the Sanya Municipal Party Committee, he launched a landscape improvement project on a main road, which was a project with a target amount of hundreds of millions of yuan, and Zhang Hailin, chairman of the winning enterprise, was a related household with Zhang Qi who had interests. On the one hand, Zhang Qi let his wife accept tens of millions of yuan in bribes from Zhang Hailin's enterprise under the packaging of seemingly legal economic behaviors such as "stock speculation" and "financial management"; on the other hand, he covered up the essence of the project approved by Zhang Hailin through superficially compliant bidding procedures.

According to the official website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission, the examination and investigation found that it is not an isolated case for leading cadres to use their powers and influences to meddle in land projects to seek huge interests. According to Zhang Qi and the personnel involved in the case, the problems of violations of laws and regulations in the commercial development of Many islands such as Sanya's Phoenix Island, Xiaozhou Island, and Haikou Simapo Island are prominent, and there are leading cadres behind them who intervene and manipulate.

According to data disclosed by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission, since April 2017, discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels in Hainan Province have investigated and dealt with 515 cases of corruption involving the engineering field, involving 49% of the members of the leading bodies of relevant cities and counties, and 30% of the top leaders; among them, the cases investigated and handled by the Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission and supervision commission involved engineering corruption as high as 69%, and the number one accounted for 59%. In 2017, the national land special inspector pointed out more than 3,000 problems in 23 categories, and in 2018, the national marine inspectorate pointed out that there are 35 problems in the development of marine resources, and the problems left over in Hainan Province are multi-faceted and wide-ranging, and the rectification task is arduous and urgent.

Under his "example", his son also embarked on the road of no return and is still hiding overseas

At the crossroads of his son's graduation from college and into society, Zhang Qi used his "demonstration" to teach his son the first corruption lesson in his life, and thus brought his son to a road of no return that violated discipline and the law.

According to the feature film, in 2012, Zhang Qi went abroad to attend his son's college graduation ceremony, and let his son accept the "living expenses" sent by a boss who accompanied him for the first time. Zhang Qi said that he was still deceiving himself and telling his son that you would return it to him in the future.

According to reports, after Zhang Yan returned to China, he proposed to do business, and Zhang Qi introduced various bosses to him, and once again "borrowed" from the boss to give his son as 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. Zhang Yan soon became accustomed to relying on his father for nothing, and also began to take the initiative to ask the boss. He traveled back and forth between China and Canada to live a life of luxury and pleasure.

According to the feature film, Zhang Qi also let Chen Xuehui, the owner of Hainan Hengrui Industrial Development Co., Ltd., invest in haikou and Shenzhen to buy two properties for his son, of which the purchase price of sea-view houses in Shenzhen reached 35 million yuan. In return, Zhang Qi used his authority to help Chen Xuehui's company in contracting projects and resolving land disputes. In order to hide the eyes and ears, the property has been placed under the name of Chen Xuehui Company and has not been transferred. In 2019, Zhang Qi felt that the organization was investigating himself, and arranged for Chen Xuehui to cover up in many ways.

Ma Wei, a staff member of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission, said that the key to the above-mentioned property was in the hands of Zhang Yan, and Zhang Qi, in order to evade the investigation, asked Chen Xuehui to replace the door lock, and on the other hand, asked Chen Xuehui to renovate the house and arrange for Chen Xuehui's subordinates to live in it to confirm that the house was not his.

According to reports, in 2019, a boss who was closely related to Zhang Qi was retained, and Zhang Qi had a premonition that he might pull himself out and began to find ways to resist the organizational investigation. After learning of the situation, Zhang Qi arranged for his son and daughter-in-law to flee to Canada the next day, and also tried to cut the relationship between him and Qian Ling, in order to save himself. In addition, he contacted a number of private business owners with whom he had improper economic dealings, asking them to leave the country and take refuge. In September 2019, Zhang Qi was filed for review and investigation and taken into custody. Because of the huge amount of money involved in Zhang Yan's case, China issued a red notice to the world.

In March 2020, the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced that Zhang Qi, former member of the Standing Committee of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee and former secretary of the Haikou Municipal Party Committee, had seriously violated many of the party's disciplines, constituting a serious violation of official duties and suspected of accepting bribes, and had been expelled from the party and punished with public office, and transferred to the judicial organs. In December 2020, the court sentenced Zhang Qi to life imprisonment.

Ma Wei, a staff member of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission, said that Zhang Qi actually regretted letting his son escape in the later stage, and he hoped that during the period of review, he could persuade his son to come back.

Zhang Qi confessed to the camera: "I'm sorry for my 93-year-old father and 87-year-old mother, my mother especially said that 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. "It was I who ruined this family, which was originally a family of four generations of people with old and young, and is now in tatters." 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. ”

Nandu trainee reporter Guo Ruomei was sent from Beijing

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