With the support of the party and the state, the "anti-corruption and clean government" activities have been carried out nationwide, and we are committed to returning a good environment for political parties to be upright and clean.
Not only has the political party circle been vigorously carried out, but the film and television industry has also actively responded to the call of the state through its own way, with the tv series "The People's People's Righteousness" launched for the first time by the film and television industry on the theme of "anti-corruption and promoting honesty", and later the TV series "Sweeping The Black Storm" starring Sun Honglei and adapted from a true case.
The emergence of these film and television works has made the momentum of the anti-gang crime and anti-corruption campaign greater, hotter, and closer to the people, so that ordinary people can also feel the determination and intensity of the state's vigorous anti-corruption.
Some time ago, CCTV News and CCTV Radio and Television Station joined hands to broadcast the TV special film "Zero Tolerance" on the CCTV comprehensive channel to show the public the process of the "anti-corruption and clean government" activities and the results achieved from the perspective of investigators.
The story that Xiaobian will tell you today is from the fifth episode of the TV special "Zero Tolerance", "Forever on the Road".
The protagonist of this episode of the feature film is Zhang Qi, former member of the Standing Committee of the Haikou Provincial Party Committee and former secretary of the Haikou Municipal Party Committee, what kind of corruption and corruption has happened to this cadre?
After Zhang Qi was arrested, he faced the camera with great remorse, and he confessed that "he should not have taken chances in the first place, vainly wanted to escape supervision, and finally ended up like this."
Time goes back to the past, and the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was successfully convened, heralding the arrival of a new era in China. At this meeting, it was clearly pointed out that in the future period of time, the central authorities should more resolutely carry out the action of "opposing corruption and promoting clean government."
We should be unswerving, have zero tolerance, persist in cracking down on illegal and criminal matters, persist in thoroughly investigating anti-corruption cases, and take tough measures to deal with any criminal cadre and beat the horse.
As a party member and a state cadre, Zhang Qi is very clear about the great determination of the party Central Committee to fight corruption this time. But in the end, he still failed to resist the temptation of money and power, and stepped onto the road of corruption and corruption.
"Zhang Qi is very smart." In the process of investigating Zhang Qi's life and work, a cadre of the Discipline Inspection Commission personally evaluated Zhang Qi in this way.
Indeed speaking with facts, Zhang Qi is an extremely intelligent criminal suspect. Of the more than 100 million yuan he embezzled, less than 2 million yuan was received by Zhang Qi himself, and the rest of the embezzled money fell into Zhang Qi's pocket through the hands of Zhang Qi's wife Qian Ling and Zhang Qi's son Zhang Yan.
After the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee explicitly prohibited the spouses of leading cadres, as well as other relatives and children from working within the jurisdiction of cadres.
Zhang Qi's wife, Qian Ling, was a member of the sea to do business in the early years, and she also lived in the commercial market, with no worries about food and clothing. But after Zhang Qi embarked on the path of corruption, he recalled his wife to his side.
On the surface, he draws a clear line between his wife Qian Ling and the companies he manages, but behind the scenes, he still lets his wife Qian Ling become a shareholder of these listed companies and manage these companies for Zhang Qi as a behind-the-scenes controller.
In some money and power transactions, Zhang Qi is very good at using legal means to disguise the fact of corruption, for example, Zhang Qi personally participated in the launching ceremony of a project when he was the secretary of the Sanya Municipal Party Committee.
In the industry, the contracting rights of some large projects need to be grabbed through various contracting companies, and Zhang Qi, as the secretary of the Sanya Municipal Party Committee, is honored to be invited to participate in the process of bidding and competition.
The landscape improvement project for a main road in Sanya was successfully bid by a company headed by Zhang Hailin as chairman.
On the surface, this seems to be an extremely normal project bidding process, but in fact, behind the scenes, it is just a shady curtain of Zhang Qi's and Zhang Hailin's money and power transactions.
Zhang Qi, who was behind his back, had already accepted bribes from Zhang Hailin, and let his wife Qian Ling secretly pocket the bribes that Zhang Hailin gave him tens of millions of yuan through packaging such as "stock speculation and financial management".
On the surface, Zhang Qi manipulated the bidding process through his own rights, so that the enterprises under Zhang Hailin's control successfully won the bid and obtained the contracting rights for this batch of projects.
In fact, the puppet that Zhang Qi used to cover up his corruption was not only his wife Qian Ling, he even pulled his son Zhang Yan, who was studying in Canada, into the chaos of this money and power transaction.
In 2012, Zhang Yan went to a university in Canada to study under the arrangement of his father Zhang Qi. During this period, with the permission of his father Zhang Qi, Zhang Yan accepted a million yuan of "living expenses" from a certain big boss.
Not only that, when Zhang Yan returned to China after completing his studies in Canada, he proposed to his father the idea of borrowing money to start a company.
The father took this opportunity to introduce the major bosses he had known over the years to his son Zhang Yan, and also asked some bosses for "borrowing" to use as the starting capital of Zhang Yan's company. Among them, Luo Mou, the head of a tourism development company in Hainan Province, had "borrowed" 30 million yuan from Zhang Yan.
In fact, in the process of the follow-up investigation of Zhang Qi, the Discipline Inspection Commission found out one by one that these "loans" were ostensibly used for the start-up funds of his son Zhang Yan's company, but in fact, behind the scenes, these big bosses used to bribe Zhang Qi's stolen money.
It's just that Zhang Qi is afraid of frequent operations and excessive amounts, so that he will be targeted by people with hearts. That's why I came up with such a trick of "tanuki for prince".
In fact, in this big family, Zhang Qi is not the only one who accepts bribes and exchanges power for money, Zhang Qi's wife Qian Ling and son Zhang Yan have all been found by the Discipline Inspection Commission to have a number of assets of unknown origin, which they obtained through illegal means.
Among them, the one with the largest amount of corruption and the most rampant style is Zhang Qi's son Zhang Yan, who is said to inherit his father's business, and Zhang Yan also began to embark on the road of breaking the law and committing crimes under the protection of his father Zhang Qi.
He repeatedly used the fact that he wanted to open a company but the capital chain was short, and asked for "loans" from several bosses who were good friends with his father.
Not only that, Zhang Yan's subsequent practices were even more rampant, and he used the money he obtained several times to return to China and Canada, living a luxurious and absurd life like a rich man.
He drove a luxury car bought for hundreds of thousands of Canadian dollars abroad, and raced on the road in the middle of the night with the rich man he met in Canada, without the slightest concern for the safety of the pedestrians around him.
If the luxury car is unfortunately damaged, Zhang Yan relies on his father's rights to ask for money from the bosses who want to seduce his father to buy a luxury car again.
The money borrowed by Zhang Yan needs to be made up by Zhang Qi with his rights in the future, but fortunately, those bosses have not made too much demands.
As long as Zhang Qi can do what he can and can do, he will handle it properly for these bosses, and some witty bosses will give Zhang Qi some "gifts" to thank him afterwards.
This is just a separate action of Zhang Qi and Zhang Yan, in fact, Zhang Qi began to seek a way out for his son and his descendants early.
With a clever mind, he quickly came up with an idea, saying that he would do it, and Zhang Qi quickly found the rich bosses who had the same ideas as himself, and hit it off, and jointly created a "co-corruption circle".
In fact, the operation of this "common corruption circle" is not difficult to understand, and it is also very easy to maintain, which is simply "exchanging power for money".
Zhang Qi used the power of his mobile phone to give his son Zhang Yan an official position in the political party circle, and tied the way for Zhang Yan to get acquainted with the brothers of these rich bosses.
In the later stage of operation, Zhang Yan provided these rich second generations with the official positions they wanted, and these rich second generations became Zhang Yan's economic security.
Liu Lifeng, a staff member of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission, mentioned in the documentary that this "circle of common corruption" is actually a retreat path created by Zhang Qi and these rich people for their descendants, which is mutually beneficial and win-win.
And Zhang Qi is to pass on the money and power in his hands through this circle between the two generations, and maintain this good interest relationship and constantly contact.
In fact, the advantages of this "co-corruption circle" are obvious, and the shortcomings are also obvious to all, that is, "one glory and one loss."
In 2019, a big boss who had a close relationship with Zhang Qi was arrested. The arrest of this good brother made Zhang Qi feel a strong sense of crisis, and he began to plan for his own way back.
He first arranged for his wife Qian Ling and son Zhang Yan to flee abroad, and he was determined to divorce his wife and cut off the relationship between the two people, so as not to involve himself in the discipline inspection commission when it examined his wife Qian Ling.
Subsequently, he coerced and lured several big bosses who had many financial transactions with him to flee abroad, and even left the country to evade the censorship of the Discipline Inspection Commission.
But Skynet was restored, and it was not leaked. In the end, it was the state's action that was one step faster, and Zhang Qi, who had not yet had time to escape, was captured in Hainan City.
At this point, Zhang Qi's life that he thought was brilliant and safe was shattered and came to an end.
After Zhang Qi was arrested, he still felt that he could successfully go out, and did not have the slightest intention of repentance, until September 2019, the Discipline Inspection Commission found out that Zhang Qi's son Zhang Yan was involved in a huge amount of money, the circumstances were very bad, and issued a red notice on the internet.
Seeing that his wrong deeds had involved his son Zhang Yan as a wanted criminal, Zhang Qi was in pain, and at this time he suddenly repented.
I understood how wrong I was in what I had done, and when I pulled my son into the water, I did not create a better future for him, but ruined my son's life.
Therefore, Zhang Qi took the initiative to stand up and began to personally persuade those criminal bosses who had fled abroad to return to China to face trial, and some bosses, after hearing Zhang Qi's persuasion, took the initiative to return to China and surrender themselves and strive for leniency, but only Zhang Qi's son Zhang Yan has not been heard from so far.
"It was I who ruined my son's life, it was my father's fault. I really regret that I arranged for my son to escape, and now I very much hope that he can take the initiative to return to China and accept the trial of the party and the state. But I've sent him a lot of messages, and he hasn't replied, and he hasn't returned home. ”
At the end of the show, Zhang Qi sat alone on the bed in the cell, looking at the birds outside the iron window in a daze, looking forward to the early return of his son Zhang Yan and striving for leniency.
Self-righteous cleverness ends up ruining the future of countless people.
On March 4, 2020, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection published the results of zhang qi's handling on the Internet: after investigation, Zhang Qi, as a state party member and leading cadre, has already violated the party's requirements, violated his own ideas, and embarked on the road of illegal crimes and corruption, and now through the trial of state organs, he finally decided to expel Zhang Qi from the party and deprive him of political rights for life.
Eventually, Zhang Qi will spend the rest of his life in a cell.
References: "Central Commission for Discipline Inspection Website Comments on Corrupt Officials' Sons Amassing Wealth: Upward Goodness is Really Good for Children" - Central Commission for Discipline Inspection State Supervision Commission website