At 8:00 p.m. on January 19, the last episode of the five-episode TV special "Zero Tolerance", "Forever on the Road", unveiled the process of Zhou Jiangyong and his younger brother Zhou Jianyong, who were engaged in politics and business, using public power to help their younger brother in business, and gradually moving towards corruption. He used the power in his hand to act as a patron for his brother's affiliated enterprises, and helped his brother's company get the overall right to coordinate subway mobile payments...
The brothers grabbed the first pot of gold
It is based on the trading of power and money
"In the end, the mistakes and crimes committed were all caused by me, without my power, he (Zhou Jianyong) was nothing, without my lead, he could do nothing." Zhou Jiangyong, former member of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and former secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee, confessed to the camera.
Zhou Jiangyong, after the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, served as a "number one" in Zhoushan City, Wenzhou City, and Hangzhou City in Zhejiang Province. In August 2021, as a member of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee, he was examined and investigated by the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
Zhejiang is a region 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. His younger brother Zhou Jianyong is a teacher at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, but he is not satisfied with the Lide tree, and he envies the life of successful people in the business world.
In 2006, he started a chemical company part-time, starting in Xiangshan County, Ningbo City, where Zhou Jiangyong was the first in charge at the time, for reasons that are self-evident.
Zhou Jiangyong said: "My brother wants to run a business and run a business, and he will introduce a business to cooperate. It's because I took that line and then I slowly... This is the bane. ”
At that time, Zhou Jiangyong was the secretary of the Xiangshan County Party Committee, and he found a local private enterprise to provide funds, land, and equipment, and his brother came up with so-called technology.
The first bucket of gold seized by the brothers Zhou Jiangyong and Zhou Jianyong was based on the trading of power and money. This private enterprise under the instruction of Zhou Jiangyong, and Zhou Jianyong "cooperation" to open Ningbo Xiangrun Petrochemical Technology Co., Ltd., the so-called "cooperation" is actually just a cover, soon Xiangrun Petrochemical Company became Zhou Jianyong independent contract, but still for a long time free use of the private enterprise's land, plant and equipment.
By waiving the lease royalties, over the years, the private enterprise has transferred more than seven million yuan in benefits to the Zhou Jiangyong brothers. Correspondingly, Zhou Jiangyong used his authority to help the company in obtaining land.
Act as a patron for his brother's affiliates
Even interference in the administration of justice
Zhou Jianyong runs a business, in fact, there is no capital foundation, no technical advantages, and no business ability, but he has no fear, and he believes that he can rely on his brother to become bigger and stronger.
He then opened a second enterprise in the name of "cooperation" with fellow villager Zhou Wenyong and others: Yongrun Petrochemical Technology Co., Ltd., Zhou Jianyong accounted for 40% of the shares, in fact, the registered capital and capital increase he should pay totaled more than 14 million yuan, all of which Zhou Wenyong paid on his behalf. The reason why these bosses are willing to pay huge sums of money to "cooperate" with Zhou Jianyong is also to climb the patron of Zhou Jiangyong.
In this regard, the businessman Involved in the case, Zhou Wenyong, also said: "Zhou Jianyong came to me, hoping that I could help him pay this money, and also gave me a promise, in case there is anything in the future, Zhou Jiangyong will also help, so find a patron, then I will promise Zhou Jianyong." ”
Zhou Jiangyong did spare no effort to act as a backer for his brother's affiliated enterprises. He not only provided assistance in business operations, but even intervened in the judiciary to help Yongrun Company evade criminal penalties in environmental pollution cases. In 2014, in order to save costs, Yongrun Company illegally handed over the waste residue after refining oil to unqualified enterprises for "treatment", which was actually transported to Shandong and dumped in farmland.
The Shandong police officially filed a case, traced back to the source to find yongrun company, Zhou Jiangyong in order to let his brother's company get light treatment, so he used his position influence to seize the jurisdiction of the case, so that the local police in Ningbo to file a case for investigation.
Zhou Jiangyong said: "I also used my power to help him, the province to deal with it better, do not take criminal measures, can take administrative fines and so on to solve, and finally can make it a big deal small, early to end." ”
He used his brother as a bridge to accept bribes
Zhou Jianyong threw himself into the business sea, and also gave various merchants the opportunity to use him to hunt Zhou Jiangyong. Shi Shihong, the owner of a construction company, is one of them.
The businessman Involved in the case, Shi Shihong, took the initiative to find a relationship to get acquainted with Zhou Jianyong, and Zhou Jianyong also helped Shi Shihong to 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.
Shi Shihong explained: "Borrowed in the form of a loan, but there is no IOU, for us, anyway, this money as a benefit fee is given to him." The key is still Zhou Jiangyong, I gave this money to their two brothers through Zhou Jianyong, just a channel. So I actually want to give Zhou Jiangyong, what role can Zhou Jianyong play? It wasn't Zhou Jiangyong who was doing things yet. ”
Regarding these "loans", Zhou Jianyong also admitted that he did not want to repay them.
In the process of zhou Jiangyong accepting bribes from Shi Shihong, he and Shi Shihong never had contact, and they all used their brothers as a bridge. Shi Shihong's company did not directly take the project, but first found some large central enterprises and state-owned enterprises with Zhou Jianyong, promised to help them find Zhou Jiangyong to take the project, and handed over part of the project to Shi Shihong's company after the matter was completed. Zhou Jiangyong took projects for some large central enterprises and state-owned enterprises, which also seemed to be justified.
Help your brother get the overall right to coordinate the subway mobile payment system
Entering the era of digital economy, Zhou Jianyong also hopes to catch this bus. In 2017, he founded Youcheng United Information Technology Development Co., Ltd. in Ningbo, a joint venture between Ningbo and Renren, declaring that it is a high-tech company focusing on "subway Internet +", but in fact, the core resource is the power of his brother Zhou Jiangyong. Through Zhou Jiangyong's greeting, Youcheng United cooperated with Ningbo Metro, and the first business got the overall right to coordinate the mobile payment system of Ningbo Metro.
Zhou Jianyong confessed: "This is a matter of resources. Technology is not so difficult, mobile payment, that is, outside to buy vegetables can already be used. ”
Zhou Jiangyong admitted: "I have greeted him for helping to approve a batch, and the reason why he can get it is because I am a leading cadre." ”
In February 2017, Zhou Jiangyong was transferred to the secretary of the Wenzhou Municipal Party Committee, in 2018, Zhou Jianyong greeted him, and Youcheng United obtained part of the project of Wenzhou Metro mobile payment system; in 2019, Zhou Jiangyong was transferred to the secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee, and in November 2019, Youcheng United Company invested in the establishment of Hangzhou Railway Youcheng Technology Co., Ltd. as a major shareholder, intending to further expand its business in Hangzhou. In this process, Zhou Jianyong is also keen to make friends with various bosses, ostensibly to sell high-tech concepts, but in fact to peddle Zhou Jiangyong's power.
Some enterprises also hope to bind Zhou Jiangyong through Zhou Jianyong, so they take the "low-value high-investment" approach to buy part of the equity of Zhou Jianyong at an obviously unreasonable high price, and Zhou Jiangyong provides help for these enterprises in obtaining low-cost land and preferential policies.
Zhou Jianyong also uses the company, he said: "From the perspective of the company's shareholding, the stock price is definitely high. At that time, I also thought in my heart, you must also know that I am Zhou Jiangyong's younger brother, so the price I offered can be imagined, you use me, I will not use you in turn? ”
You use me, I use you, and the essence behind the transfer of benefits is the transaction of power and capital. The use of public power by leading cadres for personal gain naturally disgusts cadres and the masses. The inspection and petitioning channels have successively received some reflections on the business problems of Zhou Jiangyong's younger brother, and the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission have thus launched verifications; in the face of serious examination and investigation, as long as there is a transaction of power and money, no matter how it is covered up, it is actually difficult to cover up.
Zhou Jiangyong confessed: "From the perspective of my case, I have now made serious mistakes and crimes, and I am full of regret, this is really, really very painful. ”
Zhou Jiangyong was born in a peasant family, under the cultivation of the organization and his own efforts, step by step to become a deputy provincial cadre, should have cherished the rare career opportunities, the opportunity of the times, but unfortunately, in the process of promotion, he gradually willful use of power, deviating from the original intention.
During his tenure as secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee, Zhou Jiangyong once said publicly at a meeting: "This is an era of capable officials, and this is a city that can do things." Being able to work in such an era and in such a city is the supreme glory of each of our cadres and a major test for each of our cadres. He himself, on the other hand, actually failed to stand the test.
Source: Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and State Supervision Commission
Jimu news reporter Hu Xiuwen
(Jimu News)