In 1995, Liu Jinbao, who had gone all the way to the top and had already sat as the president of the Shanghai branch of the Bank of China, published his own book, "The Echoes of Finance".
"I like to make friends by nature, but today I am afraid to make friends. Sitting in my chair, I am most afraid of making friends with entrepreneurs. Because some entrepreneurs have made friends with me, the next step is to ask me for a loan... As for the girlfriend, I dare not make it... The essence of love is to give. ”
At this time, Liu Jinbao was 43 years old, had a wife and a daughter, and was a famous "god of wealth" on the beach, but he had a so-called first love regret in his heart: he could not forget his middle school female classmate Chen Chen, in the case of two unsuccessful pursuits, he seemed to find Chen Chen's shadow in one of his female subordinates, and quickly transferred this female subordinate to his side as a secretary and developed into a lover.
In order to make up for his regrets when he was young in his lover, after that, Liu Jinbao fell deeply into the love network, let this lover have a facelift more than a dozen times according to the appearance of his "first love", and his long-term companion was around, he not only threw thousands of dollars for the "red face", embezzled and accepted huge amounts of money, but also illegally lent 1.8 billion yuan to two enterprises according to his lover's will, bringing at least 545 million yuan of huge losses to the country, and also brought himself a prison disaster.
1, "first love" love, let him grumpy
Originally from Haining, Zhejiang Province, Liu Jinbao was born in 1952 to an ordinary working-class family in downtown Shanghai.
He has 7 brothers and sisters, the whole family is crammed into a small house of only 18 square meters in the old city of Nancheng, each person can only say that he has a place to lie down and sleep, this old house is old, the roof has long been dilapidated, whenever the summer rainy season in Shanghai comes, it rains heavily outside, and the house will also rain lightly.
Shanghai Shikumen Old House (pictures and texts have nothing to do)
Under such difficult conditions, Liu Jinbao finished primary and secondary school, when he was taciturn and introverted, because his family was poor and always wore the old clothes that his brother had eliminated, and he did not attract attention in school, and the only thing he could do was his grades.
According to a high school classmate of Liu Jinbao, in the middle school era, Liu Jinbao was not outstanding in the class, just entered adolescence, he had a vague love affair in his heart, and secretly fell in love with a female classmate named Chen Chen, Chen Chen was in good shape and good looks, and there were many boys who liked her, and she almost never paid attention to Liu Jinbao.
Shanghai Middle School Campus in the 1970s (picture and text unrelated)
One day, Liu Jinbao plucked up the courage and boldly stuffed a love letter into Chen Chen's hand, who expected Chen Chen to be very disgusted, opened only one glance, and tore it to pieces in public, after this incident, Liu Jinbao felt deeply humiliated and became the laughing stock of the whole class, and his self-esteem was seriously damaged, he secretly swore that he would get ahead in this life, and turned back to let Chen Chen look at him differently: Today you ignore my love, tomorrow I will let you climb high.
Sensible Liu Jinbao knows that his family conditions are not good, his parents can give limited, only study is the only way out, therefore, even during the Cultural Revolution he did not waste his studies, after work everywhere outstanding, in 1972, he was guaranteed by the unit to beijing Institute of Foreign Trade (now the University of International Business and Economics) to study, in August 1976, Liu Jinbao graduated with excellent results, and was sent to the Bank of China head office to work, becoming the first batch of university graduates accepted by the head office after the Cultural Revolution.
Just arrived at the unit, Liu Jinbao heard that the head office will send several employees to London to work, his education and profession fully meet the requirements, but at this time he is still unmarried, does not meet the dispatch requirements of "married personnel", the time is urgent, in order to dispel the doubts of the person in charge of the unit, can be dispatched successfully, Even Liu Jinbao, who does not have a girlfriend, immediately returned to Shanghai and proposed to the daughter of the old neighbor.
The 24-year-old Liu Jinbao had a dazzling education and job, coupled with his warm and sincere attitude at the time, and soon "took" the daughter of the neighbor's family, through the sudden marriage, Liu Jinbao became a married person, and was also sent to work at the London branch of the Bank of China in December 1977, becoming one of the youngest foreign exchange and gold traders in China at that time.
Although he later claimed in the interrogation that he was desperate for "true love" and that "true love" meant more to him than anything else, Liu Jinbao's first marriage was based entirely on utilitarianism, and he also seized this rare opportunity and began to live forever.
During his time as a trader in London, Liu Jinbao, who had a bright mind and solid professional knowledge, performed well and earned a lot of foreign exchange for the country, which attracted the attention of the superior department.
In October 1981, Liu Jinbao was transferred back to China, and in order to reunite him with his wife in Shanghai for many years, he was arranged to go to the Shanghai branch of the Bank of China, where he first worked as a translator at the foreign affairs reception and later as a clerk at the Economic Research Institute of the Bank of China.
In his hometown, he made friends and bragged about his special experience as a trader in London. According to Liu Jinbao's colleagues at the Bank of China, "At that time, there were many talents in the industry, and it was difficult to get ahead step by step, but he was still different when he just returned from London." ”
In the early 1980s, when the trust industry was just emerging in Shanghai, Liu Jinbao handled some difficult problems with his past trading experience, and his professional ability was recognized. In 1984, he was appointed Deputy Manager of the newly established Shanghai Trust Consulting Company of BOC Shanghai Branch, and in 1989 he became Vice President of BOC Shanghai Branch, where he was named One of the "Top Ten Young Elites" in Shanghai.
After becoming vice president, Liu Jinbao thought that he had achieved fame and could make up for the regret of his "first love" of that year, he disregarded his married status, asked his classmates everywhere about Chen Chen's news, but learned that she had long been married and went abroad.
Female middle school students in the 1970s (picture and text independent)
Although He returned to his hometown and held the financial power, he could not show all this in front of the long-admired "first love", Liu Jinbao was even more regretful, and he dreamed back in the middle of the night, he still missed Chen Chen, and his inner love and hatred were entangled, and that unforgettable feeling could not be erased from his heart no matter what.
2, throw 4 million yuan to recreate the "first love"
In 1992, the well-spoken Liu Jinbao was named the third "China's Top Ten Outstanding Youths" through his story of "gold trader" and financial reform, and in May 1993, he was officially appointed acting president of bank of China Shanghai branch.
On May 4, when Liu Jinbao saw Lin Ling (pseudonym), the propaganda officer of the subordinate unit, for the first time at the meeting to welcome him to take office, he couldn't help but be dazzled, as if he saw Chen Chen, the "first love" of 20 years ago.
Lin Ling's smile was exactly like Chen Chen, even younger and more beautiful than Chen Chen, and he was very concerned and considerate of his "big leader", which made him think that love was back.
The 41-year-old Liu Jinbao was bent on finding the feeling of "first love" in Lin Ling, and he quickly transferred Lin Ling to the branch to be his secretary, and then took her on business trips around the world every three or five minutes, London, Hong Kong, New York, and left traces of their play everywhere.
Looking at Liu Jinbao's other eyes, Lin Lingxin understood that under the blessing of power, the President Liu in her eyes appeared to be particularly attractive, courageous, and aura, so Lin Ling, who admired vanity, regardless of the fact that both of them were married, quickly threw himself into Liu Jinbao's arms and became his underground lover.
Liu Jinbao
There is no impermeable wall in the world, Lin Ling's husband is also an employee of the Shanghai branch, after learning of his wife's scandal with Liu Jinbao, he planned to "go to find trouble", and in order not to let Lin Ling's husband disturb their "two-person world", Liu Jinbao promoted him to a small cadre in the field office, defused the storm, and also separated Lin Ling's husband.
One night in December 1994, Liu Jinbao invited several high school classmates to dinner, and specially asked Lin Lingzuo to accompany him, and the students were stunned by the beautiful female secretary who appeared at the banquet, and they couldn't speak, and they were half drunk, and a classmate surnamed Qin took the initiative to say: "Strange, you look like a copy of one of our old classmates!" Liu Jinbao wanted this effect, and he triumphantly said in front of his old classmates: "Then do you still need to say?" What else is there to say? That Chen Chen didn't agree to my pursuit, and now she just turned back to me, and I still think she's old! Only at this time, his "first love regret" many years ago seems to have been made up, but he has made up his wish.
After the meal, Lin Ling, who knew nothing about this, took the initiative to ask about the reason, liu Jinbao did not hide his "past" with Chen Chen, he told Lin Ling about his "regret of first love", and also told her that although she looked very similar to Chen Chen, her chin did not have Chen Chen's tip, and her waist was not rounded by Chen Chen, and jokingly suggested: "Are you going to try plastic surgery?" That's more like that. ”
For this unreasonable request, Lin Ling could have ignored it, but she knew that Liu Jinbao was a well-known "god of wealth" in Shanghai Beach, and many people wanted to open Liu Jinbao's joints from her, in order to make herself speak more weighty in Liu Jinbao and be able to pry the credit power in his hands, Lin Ling actually agreed to do plastic surgery, and also asked Liu Jinbao to provide a photo of Chen Chen, taking a plastic surgery by herself, and hearing this, Liu Jinbao sighed and said: "If she is willing to send me a photo, do I still need to look for you?"
This originally seemed to be a dewy love affair, and Liu Jinbao soon lost interest in this anecdote, but wanted to leave Shanghai to find a bigger stage. However, at that time, Liu Jinbao was too exaggerated, which caused many people in the financial circles to resent, and there was no hope of promotion, so he went to his college classmate wang Xuebing, the former president of the Bank of China, to help.
In 1997, with the help of Wang Xuebing, Liu Jinbao was appointed As the Permanent Deputy Director of the Hong Kong and Macau Management Office of bank of China and the general manager of the Hong Kong branch.
Lin Ling, who is nearly 30 years old, has a sense of crisis, and after hearing that Liu Jinbao has become obsessed with a female model surnamed Ma in Hong Kong, she has made a lot of noise, but the relationship between the two has become more and more rigid. In order to regain Liu Jinbao's heart, she asked a classmate surnamed Qin to find a photo of Chen Chen when he was young and took the initiative to ask for a plastic surgery.
Since then, Liu Jinbao has arranged for Lin Ling to go to Hong Kong, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and South Korea for plastic surgery more than ten times, spending a total of more than 4 million Hong Kong dollars in surgical fees, after the doctor's "meticulous carving", Lin Ling and Chen Chen's appearance is more similar, as if Chen Chen returned to Liu Jinbao through time and space, and his eyes were full of admiration.
Looking at the "first love" in front of him, Liu Jinbao seemed to feel the flow of time, and he became a former affectionate teenager, regained his youth, and restored his enthusiasm for Lin Ling.
After that, as long as Lin Ling snorted, Liu Jinbao had no resistance at all and could only obey orders.
Lin Ling, on the other hand, grasped the phrase "the essence of love is to give" that he often hung on his lips, and constantly asked him to meet his material needs, large and small.
3. Fell violently and was sentenced to a suspended death sentence
In April 1996, Lin Ling had a 76 square meter old mansion in the unit, she was very dissatisfied, asked Liu Jinbao to help her change a large set, in May 1997, Liu Jinbao called Xie Mou, the chairman of a real estate company in Fengxian County, to dinner, asking Xie to help Lin Ling change the house, as a transaction, he promised to give the company a loan for the new project, Xie immediately took Lin Ling all over Shanghai to choose a house, and finally spent more than 1.3 million yuan to buy a new home of 152 square meters for her, and obtained a loan of more than 300 million yuan from Liu Jinbao.
With a new house, Liu Jinbao began to help his lover Zhang Luo decorate, and after receiving 280,000 yuan of decoration money, he lent 1.48 billion yuan to another real estate company, Wantai.
Later, Lin Ling received more than 1 million yuan for this house and decoration, which was known as Liu Jinbao's first two bribes.
For these acts that violated party discipline and state law, Liu Jinbao defended that they were all for "true love."
In 2003, in the interrogation room, in the face of public security officers, Liu Jinbao, who looked like Sven and wore a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, still said with great enthusiasm: "What kind of woman like me can't get it?" My relationship with Lin Ling is not a power trade as some people think, but out of real love. ”
His so-called "true love" is nothing more than a power bargain, but a pity for the treasury of the country, using the money of the people of the country to pay for his underground feelings.
Liu Jinbao, who is nearly 50 years old, when he was deeply involved in this relationship, once wrote down a period of his feelings about love in his diary:
"Having a girlfriend who doesn't get involved for the sake of getting married can give a man confidence. Can make a man resourceful, magnanimous, and face the real world... The optimal proportion of being in love is 95% of the heart and 5% of the brain. Too much calculation and rationality in love will make the relationship between the two people overshadowed with utilitarianism... The essence of love is to give, and a person who truly loves receives the happiness of love in giving. ”
He turned a blind eye to a large number of utilitarian factors and money relationships in his "artificial first love", but decided that it was a true love that sprouted from the bottom of his heart, which was completely selective blindness.
And Liu Jinbao's so-called "giving", he did not give half a penny, in order to Lin Ling's new house and decoration worth less than 2 million, he has approved 1.8 billion loans to two real estate companies, and finally brought 545 million yuan of losses to the country, in this "giving", he did get Lin Ling's embrace, gratitude to Zero, but also received severe punishment from the state law.
After coming to Hong Kong, Liu Jinbao was famous in Heung Kong for a while.
After the return of Hong Kong, in 1999, the Bank of China issued a hundred-dollar denomination of Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong, and on the back there was also the signature of Liu Jinbao, general manager of the Hong Kong branch of the Bank of China, and after Liu Jinbao was imprisoned, BOCHK specially issued a statement stating that Liu Jinbao was signed by a representative agency, and his imprisonment would not affect the use and payment of these hundred-dollar bills.
He embarked on the road of corruption in the mid-1990s, when, as the president of the Bank of China branch, he earned only tens of thousands of yuan a year, but he held the power of a batch of hundreds of millions of yuan of credit, and Liu Jinbao was lost in the crowds of big bosses.
He thought, "Why am I, a grand president, not pay enough for the big bosses to eat a meal?" I'm in charge of money, but I don't have much money in my pocket... I am quite imposing now, there are a lot of rich big bosses behind my ass begging me to do things, but what if I don't do it one day? ”
As a colleague of Liu Jinbao said, as the president, he was originally the big man who managed the key to the warehouse, and there were more people who begged him to do things, so he thought that the warehouse was his own, and he could move things as he wanted.
From the time of helping Lin Ling "change rooms", Liu Jinbao began to frequently communicate with the bosses, and every weekend and holiday, he took a luxury car to and from various clubs and resorts in the suburbs, and engaged in social activities with "important customers".
When he was the president of the shanghai branch, Liu Jinbao's fleet consisted of six "Mercedes-Benz" motorhomes and four "Mercedes-Benz" off-road vehicles, and the annual "social expenses" expenditure was as high as hundreds of millions of yuan. The presidents of banks in Europe and the United States, the senior class, which will not spend money and make money? ”
After coming to Hong Kong, Liu Jinbao's public salary and equity income reached millions of yuan per year, but still could not meet his high consumption needs, he turned his attention to BOC Hong Kong's off-the-books funds of up to 100 million yuan, planning to spend more than two years to suddenly divide up this state property and earn a "pension" money for himself.
Since then, Liu Jinbao embezzled 7.52 million yuan of public funds, accepted bribes of 1.43 million yuan, and another 14.51 million yuan of huge assets that could not explain the legal source, and was arrested by the procuratorate in 2004 and sentenced to death in 2005 with a two-year suspension of execution.
And Lin Ling, who had sworn an alliance with him, had already gone away at this time, and no longer paid attention to this "true love" who was bent on "giving" her happiness.
An "artificial first love", in the end, it is still a spring dream.
References: Legal Weekly, Legendary Biographical Literature