In recent years, the mainland's economy has taken off, and the country's strength and people's sense of well-being have increased year by year, but around 2000, there were still quite a few economic crimes on the mainland. These corrupt elements, in the face of the temptation of interests, have easily lost the bottom line and will eventually be brought to justice.
In February 2000, mainland police found a laptop in a hotel in Hangzhou. The laptop revealed a large number of economic crime facts, and the police followed the vine and arrested a fairly large economic crime gang.
The owner of the laptop, named Fang Fuming, was originally just an ordinary deputy director of the State Water Conservancy Bureau, but he later quit his job at home and ran to the United States to settle down, becoming a veritable Chinese American.
Although they are Chinese-Americans, they are still subject to Chinese law for committing crimes in China, which also warns the world not to act arbitrarily in China because of American citizenship.
So who is this Fang Fuming? Why did he commit such a major economic crime? What happened to him in the end?
Fang Fuming was arrested
At the turn of the millennium, the mainland police found that the behavior of a Hong Kong engineering bidding company was somewhat abnormal, at a time when Hong Kong was not long after the handover of Hong Kong, the domestic economic development was on the eve of its take-off, and there were many cases of domestic economic crimes in those years.
The police found a Chinese-American named Fang Fuming, who had made suspicious moves in a number of water conservancy project bidding behaviors, and once the police found that Fang Fuming had left his laptop in the hotel, and the police immediately decided to send special police to investigate the situation.
It was learned from the police investigation that Fang Fuming had stolen a large amount of economic intelligence and documents for a number of companies in the United States and Japan, many of which were bribery and bribery, causing huge economic losses to China and serious circumstances.
At this time, it was in the early stages of the investigation, and a lot of evidence and circumstances were not yet clear, so the police decided to miss this opportunity and continue to investigate and look for more evidence.
Steal intelligence
The police copied most of the evidence in the notebook, returned the laptop to Zhao, and secretly laid out a larger reconnaissance network, hoping to eliminate these criminal gangs in one net.
By March 2000, the police had completed the deployment of the police force, and after spending a peaceful Spring Festival in the United States, Fang Fuming returned to the mainland, at which time the police thundered and immediately took down Fang Fuming.
Fang Fuming's case involved a wide range of groups and the circumstances of the crime were serious, so the police interrogated Fang Fuming himself as a breakthrough in the case.
At this time, Fang Fuming's state was very bad, because he was well aware of his criminal situation, and this person was very cunning, and the police circled with him for a while and found that there was no more intelligence and evidence.
Arrest prisoners
While the police were hesitating, an agent proposed that it did not need to be so complicated, and that the case should be investigated directly from the evidence already in the laptop, from small to large, from near to far.
At the end of March, the police showed Fang Fuming the bribery record in the laptop, thinking that Fang Fuming should have nothing to say.
However, Fang Fuming's modus operandi was quite clever, and his signature on the bribery document was written in other handwriting, so he refused to admit it, and the police had to continue to wrestle with him.
Later, the police found that one of the bribe-takers was named Wu Shouren, and his handwriting was matchable, so the police decided to start with this person to break through the case.
So who is Wu Shouren, and how should the police break through the key points of this case?
Interrogation scene
Fang Fu revealed his person and his crimes
Let's first roughly sort out the life of the restoration below to see what kind of person he is and what kind of upbringing background he has.
Fang Fuming was born in 1936, and studied at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in his early years, you can imagine that the Shanghai Jiaotong University students at that time were such a proud son of heaven, and his future should be very bright and brilliant.
When he was young, Fang Fuming showed good character and work style, and around 1960, Fang Fuming entered the Zhejiang Provincial Electric Power Bureau with excellent results, where he worked diligently for nearly thirty years.
Starting as an engineer, he was gradually promoted to the president of the Engineering Institute, and then to the deputy director of the Zhejiang Provincial Electric Power Bureau, during which his work style and work achievements were quite eye-catching, and there was nothing illegal and undisciplined.
However, we do not know why, in the 1990s, Fang Fuming unusually left the Power Bureau, left China to settle in the United States, and soon became a U.S. citizen.
Become a U.S. citizen
Because he has been working for the provincial power department for a long time in China, he is very familiar with the bidding process and bidding process of power projects, and at the same time, he has worked in the power bureau for many years, and most of the leaders of the department are his old acquaintances, so his network resources are very wide.
These important resources provided conditions for Fang Fuming's criminal activities in the later period, perhaps tempted by profits, Fang Fuming, who originally had no problem with his work style, settled in the United States and began to engage in some extremely risky and highly rewarding bribery behaviors.
In 1993, Fang Fuming joined the Hong Kong Yafei Power Company, and since then he has been in frequent exchanges between the United States, Hong Kong and the mainland for a long time.
Due to his special status, most of the domestic power engineering projects have his participation, he often has close contacts with the leaders of various countries, and every time he interacts with foreign companies, he can successfully bid successfully.
This phenomenon was keenly captured by the police, so every bidding act since then has in fact been under close surveillance by the police, and it is really Skynet that has not been leaked, and Fang Fuming certainly did not expect when he made huge profits that the police had been eyeing him for a long time.
Power companies
At the beginning of 2000, Fang Fuming returned to Hangzhou again, this time he still set up a banquet to entertain several old customers, during which they drank and had fun, presumably having a lot of fun, because everyone drank too much wine at the banquet, and the mood was more excited, so Fang Fuming's laptop fell in the hotel.
For Fang Fuming, this laptop is extremely important to him, sometimes he even sleeps with this computer next to him, and it is such an important computer, this time he is still negligent.
The reconnaissance team entered Fang Fuming's room from the hotel's secret door, at this time Fang Fuming had already returned home, and there was only a rather old laptop on the hotel desk lying quietly, and the investigators resolutely opened the computer and let the staff familiar with the computer operation enter the folder of the computer.
The investigators were horrified, and the laptop contained a large amount of evidence of the crime.
It lists a dense list of national power projects, as well as the date and amount of bribes accepted, which make investigators both excited and shocked.
Computer
The number of perpetrators involved in the crime is very large, involving more than 30 staff members of various units, the amount of bribes reached more than 6 million US dollars, and a large number of invoices and receipts for bribes are also stored in the folder.
The police conducted an investigation through the other party's laptop computer, and determined that Fang Fuming's modus operandi was very common, that is, he used his connections and connections in the power bureau to help companies in Several countries such as Japan and the United States successfully bid.
Among them, more than 500 trade secrets were stolen by Japanese companies, and more than 50 trade secrets were stolen by helping the United States work.
After the arrest of Fang Fuming, Fang Fuming's cunning made it difficult for the police to find strong evidence for a while, and the police changed their thinking and began to investigate from the other perpetrators involved in the folder, which quickly achieved results.
The police carefully checked the information of Wu Shouren, another criminal who appeared in the folder several times, and decided to start with him for the next step of investigation.
Fang Fuming's criminal acts
In April 2000, investigators found Wu Shouren, and the unsuspecting Wu Shouren was inexplicably taken away by the police, which caused a huge reaction in his unit, and the most shocking person should be Wu Shouren himself.
The criminal investigators initially used a soft approach to Wu Shouren, warning him that he would be lenient in confessing, but Wu Shouren was unusually firm in saying that he had not committed a crime, but had only accepted some tobacco and alcohol items, and had not done anything illegal and disorderly.
The police also showed him the agreement in Fang Fuming's computer and told him that the handwriting had been identified by the court, and it was Wu Shouren's handwriting. In the face of ironclad evidence, Wu Shouren felt fear, but he still had illusions, perhaps because he had a great backstage, or simply feared the sins he had committed, no matter what, at this time, Wu Shouren still refused to confess.
The police saw that Wu Shouren was quite cunning, so they told him about Fang Fuming, and in the solemn warning of the police, Wu Shouren's psychological defense line was finally broken, and he confessed the crime with a haggard face.
trial
It turned out that their illegal behavior began in 1985, and the most serious violation was the corruption case of Marubeni Co., Ltd. in Japan.
Bidding for the Beilun Port power plant project was about to begin, with Japan's Marubeni Corporation and several other companies participating.
In fact, Marubeni Co., Ltd.'s bidding qualifications and engineering level were not as good as those of several other companies, but under the operation of Wu Shouren and Fang Fuming, they finally won the bidding.
According to mainland regulations, Fang Fuming is the technical consultant responsible for the Bidding Project of Beilun Port, and for him, he only needs to do his duty on the technical and engineering aspects of the project, and there are special staff responsible for other aspects.
Wu Shouren, who had already been bribed by Marubeni Co., Ltd., found Fang Fuming at this time and promised to give him a large reward and let him give Marubeni Co., Ltd. more opportunities in the bidding work.
Nippon Maruno Co., Ltd.
Originally, Fang Fuming was not very clear about things in other fields, but in the face of the temptation of interests, he easily shook his faith.
Fang Fuming put a lot of energy into this matter, he met with several of his old friends, including the deputy general manager of the China Water Conservancy Corporation, the other is the director of the China Water Conservancy Import and Export Department, the position of these two people can not be said to be high, Fang Fuming has such connections and strength.
Since these two people are the direct responsible persons for this bidding and have direct decision-making power over this bidding activity, Fang Fuming's matchmaking is very critical.
Because everyone is a working unit, several people are old friends, and Fang Fuming is an old qualification in the unit, so his matchmaking plays a direct role in promoting this transaction.
China Water Conservancy
Several people seemed very happy in the banquet, Fang Fuming had been encouraging several old friends on the side, and Marubeni Co., Ltd. also showed great financial resources, so the matter was fixed after a few rounds.
The biggest beneficiary of this is Marubeni Co., Ltd. of Japan, because this water conservancy project will be in operation for a long time, and they have obtained such a large construction project with very little money, which directly won a project with huge benefits for their company.
Therefore, it is not too much to say that Fang Fuming betrayed the country here, first of all, a country's large-scale project should benefit the country and the people, and it should be used for the people, and a foreign enterprise participating in a large-scale national project, if they raise the electricity bill, or the work is not professional enough, it is the people who suffer losses.
Fang Fuming and Wu Shouren abandoned the interests of the state and the people just because of a small profit, and those who saw profits and forgot their righteousness should be severely punished.
Skynet was restored, bringing the criminals to justice
In April 2000, the police had obtained a large amount of evidence of the economic crimes of Fang Fuming and others, and the mainland procuratorate took Fang Fuming and others into custody.
At this time, Fang Fuming still insisted that he was innocent, he still stubbornly threatened the police with the idea that he was a Chinese-American, and his attitude was quite tough, at this time the police and Fang Fuming had been competing in intelligence and endurance for a long time, in addition, the United States at this time was also trumpeting the mainland government's unjustified arrest of people in the international community.
The U.S. media, in newspapers, magazines, and television news platforms, have trumpeted That Fang Fuming as a legitimate businessman who has committed no crime, and has also portrayed the Chinese government as a barbarian who provokes for no reason.
Such remarks were often heard during the millennium, and sometimes, as ordinary people, we could not distinguish who was right and who was wrong, but in the face of overwhelming evidence, Fang Fuming and his criminal accomplices would eventually be brought to justice.
procuratorate
The police seized Fang Fuming's psychological weakness and repeatedly sharpened his endurance, and finally Fang Fuming was psychologically subdued by the police and honestly confessed his crime.
After Fang Fuming confessed to his crimes, this also made the foreign media shut up, after all, committing crimes on Chinese soil is not the turn of the Western media to comment.
Other perpetrators were also arrested and interrogated by the police in turn, and they eventually all confessed their crimes, and these criminals took advantage of loopholes in national laws to use their personal connections and connections to abuse their power in economic construction projects for personal gain.
Later, Fang Fuming was sentenced to 5 years in prison, and other criminals were also sentenced to 5 to 15 years, deprived of political rights for life, and deported.
legal sanction
Fang Fuming may have been an upright party member in his early years, but he did not keep the bottom line in the face of the shortcut of using power for personal gain, which is not only a personal sadness, but also a burden to his own family.
There are many ways to obtain wealth, and many rich people are also officials at the beginning, but they obtain wealth by going to the sea to do business, not by relying on the convenience of public power to pave the way for themselves, such a road will not last long, and it is extremely dangerous.
We should remember the tragedy of Fang Fuming and keep our duty in the face of interests, so that we can create a happy life for ourselves and our families for a long time.
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[1] Chinese-American Fang Fuming was sentenced for illegally obtaining Chinese state secrets. [J]. National Security Communications