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On January 15-19, 2022, CCTV broadcast five episodes of the anti-corruption feature film "Zero Tolerance", in which anti-corruption cases have been repeatedly searched on Weibo.
The biggest feeling that many viewers have after watching "Zero Tolerance" is: How can these corrupt officials who have embezzled tens of millions and hundreds of millions of yuan still smile and squint at the camera when they confess their guilt?
The corrupt officials in the film and television works either panicked to the point of whiteheading after the incident, or confessed with a handful of snot and tears. However, this feature film, jointly produced by the Propaganda Department of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission and the Central Radio and Television General Station, is refreshing people's stereotypes of corrupt officials.
In the film, each case has an interview with the person involved in the camera. The "flies" and "tigers" who were imprisoned appeared one by one to say that there was no weeping, no tears in the iron window, and most of these corrupt officials had calm expressions and relaxed limbs.
The first episode, "Not Worth 1.4 Billion", tells the story of the political gang case of Sun Lijun, former vice minister of public security, and the case of Hu Huaibang, former party secretary of the China Development Bank.
Sun Lijun, former vice minister of public security
In September 2021, Sun Lijun was investigated, and in the procuratorate's public prosecution against him, he mentioned that he illegally accepted other people's property and property, the amount was particularly huge; the circumstances were particularly serious; and the illegal possession of firearms was a major crime. In the documentary, Sun Lijun looks at the camera, with a little smile on his lips, and talks about his criminal process.
When Hu Huaibang, the former chairman of the China Development Bank, who embezzled 85.52 million yuan, confessed the facts of the crime to the camera, his chin was slightly raised, as if he was still maintaining the posture of "leadership training". After reading it, some Weibo netizens commented, "These high-ranking officials are smiling as if they are participating in an artistic life", "not in reflection, but in Deser".
Hu Huaibang, former chairman of the former China Development Bank
Gao Shouhong, former member of the Party Committee and deputy general manager of Moutai Group
Zhao Yonglian, former director of the Low Security Office of the Civil Affairs Bureau of Yongdeng County, Gansu Province
Although these "tigers" are very relaxed in the face of the camera, they are very honest when dissecting their own criminal psychology. For example, Liu Guoqiang, former deputy secretary of the party group of the Liaoning Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, was found to have taken bribes in the past after 3 years of retirement. He recalls in the film that when he faced a bribe of 350 million yuan, he "did not feel too much guilt", and at one point he negotiated with the case-handling staff and tried to pass the test. He also prepared in advance to transfer some of the proceeds of the bribe to the bosses who had been handed over, and told them not to say anything to the investigators. But in fact, these bosses quickly confessed Liu Guoqiang.
In the latest fifth episode of Zero Tolerance, "Forever on the Road", the case of Zhou Jiangyong, former member of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and former secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee, was disclosed for the first time. After the 18th Party Congress, Zhou Jiangyong served as the "number one" in Zhoushan, Wenzhou, Hangzhou and other cities 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.
In the program, Zhou Jiangyong recalled some of the details of his use of public power to gain benefits for his brother who was engaged in business, and the embezzled money he received in the name of a loan alone was as high as more than 90 million yuan. The "big tiger" said: "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, former member of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and former secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee
After watching five episodes, a face that is difficult to fill is presented to the audience, which is sobering and thought-provoking. It is not only the calm expression of the embezzlers, but also the motives for their crimes.
Someone is out of psychological imbalance. For example, Hu Huaibang, the former chairman of the China Development Bank, granted a loan of $4.8 billion in violation of the law, and his motive for the crime was to find that "the executives of the financial industry, the people you deal with are relatively high-level, and people have private jets." ”
Some people are out of love for their children, such as Liu Chuansheng, former secretary of the party committee of Beijing Normal University, who illegally let his son use the signboard of Beijing Normal University to open a kindergarten to make money; before retiring, he hoped to pave the way for his son once and for all and permanently authorize the "Kindergarten Affiliated to Beijing Normal University" to his son. Before she was discovered, her son had opened such kindergartens in many parts of the country. Sun Deshun, the former president of China CITIC Bank, as the first bank practitioner in China to work from a grassroots teller to the president of a state-owned bank, is very confident in his professional ability, believing that after setting up layers of financial barriers, the relevant departments cannot detect his corrupt behavior, and wantonly rely on loans in exchange for benefits.
Still others can't even find a reason. For example, Wang Fuyu, former chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, said: "My crazy greed has reached its peak, but I don't know what I want money for." ”
Wang Fuyu, former chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
"Post-95" Zhang Yujie should be the lowest-ranking person among the corrupt officials involved in the film. He was the protagonist of a judicial auction in Chuzhou, Anhui Province, in 2021. At that auction, an out-of-print game card with an original price of about 100,000 yuan and a starting price of 80 yuan was speculated to more than 87 million yuan. Zhang Yujie is the original owner of the card. He said lightly that buying game cards with embezzled money was "a child's thought at that time."
He was originally a clerk of the most ordinary government agencies, and he was not even a "bureaucrat" commonly known as the common people. Such a small fly has lost more than 70 million yuan in more than three years by using the convenience of its position. The crime was not accidentally exposed until the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, when the property custody account only went in and out and generated a deficit.
Zhang Yujie, former staff member of the Real Estate Registration Center in Chuzhou City, Anhui Province
Even Zhang Yujie himself probably felt strange, because "this loophole is very easy to block, as long as you really want to be right, basically it doesn't take half an hour to get it out." ”
Zhang Yujie also refreshed the new direction of the criminal motives of the huge corrupt people: buying top game equipment in the game, passing the level in a dashing manner, and climbing to the top of the rankings in the competition area... Then there's the girlfriend, the swap of girlfriends, and the 100,000-night undersea suite with your girlfriend. At the time of the crime, 70 million was almost squandered.
In these unnatural, even bizarre characters and behaviors, the audience can see that some of the shortcomings of individual officialdom are infringing on the rights and interests of every citizen. There are no tearful scenes in "Zero Tolerance" or the big scene of the police car singing, but through the smiling faces, the souls of corrupt people are naked to the fullest, and the ugliness of those officialdom is exposed at a glance.
Exposing the absurd with the truth, and warning the truth with the absurd — in this sense, the five-episode anti-corruption feature "Zero Tolerance" completes its mission.
(Source: Tencent News)
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