On February 10, the Procuratorial Daily published "Considering the Overall Situation as Subtle as Possible, Playing a Good "Combined Fist" of Ordinary Criminal Prosecutions - An Interview with Miao Shengming, Director of the First Procuratorate of the Supreme People's Procuratorate."
Miao Shengming, director of the First Procuratorate of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, was interviewed by reporters
According to Miao Shengming, since 2021, under the leadership and support of the Central Committee for Comprehensively Ruling the Country in Accordance with the Law and the Central Political and Legal Commission, the Supreme People's Procuratorate has taken the implementation of the criminal justice policy of fewer arrests, cautious prosecutions, and prudent detention as an important task to grasp, and played a set of "combined fists" of "improving system construction + carrying out special activities + case guidance practice".
Miao Shengming told reporters that in April 2021, the Supreme People's Procuratorate held a summary meeting of the national procuratorial organs' special struggle against organized crime and evil forces and a work conference on the normalization of the deployment of the anti-gang crime and anti-evil work conference, systematically summarized the experience of the procuratorial organs' special struggle against organized crime and evil forces, and then formulated and issued the "Opinions on Giving Full Play to the Role of procuratorial functions and normalizing the struggle against organized crime and eliminating evil forces".
Miao Shengming said, "In terms of adhering to the principle of 'not letting go and not making up the number' and implementing the source of governance, we have closely followed the supervision and guidance of key cases, and screened 25 cases with major impact and difficulty in promoting the cases involving criminal syndicates and evil forces in The 'Four Major Industries' field from the whole country, such as the '5.25' black case in Southwest Jiangxi, the Cao Peijun case in Yibin, Sichuan, and the cases involving criminal syndicates and evil forces in the 'four major industries', and efficiently handled the 'nail cases' and 'bone cases' according to law." At the same time, we have also strictly grasped the unified system of checking and characterizing cases involving criminal syndicates and evil forces, and strengthened the guidance for listing supervision and handling and key cases involving criminal syndicates and evil forces. ”
Among the 25 cases involving criminal syndicates and vices, including the case of Cao Peijun in Yibin, Sichuan.
The history of the fall of the "Bottle Cap King"
Cao Peijun, male, Han ethnicity, born in April 1963, 59 years old, was the vice president of the Sichuan Provincial Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Standing Committee of the Yibin Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and the vice chairman of the Municipal Federation of Industry and Commerce.
Before being investigated, Cao Peijun was more well known as the chairman of Yibin Hengxu Investment Group Co., Ltd. Hengxu Group is a family-owned enterprise and the first private enterprise in Yibin City with an annual output value of more than 10 billion yuan.
Public information shows that Cao Peijun started with a brick kiln.
According to a 2017 report by Yibin News Network, in 1993, Cao Peijun, the head of Hengxu, borrowed 30,000 yuan to start his home and contracted a small brick kiln in Shengtian, GaoXian County, Yibin.
In 2004, Hengxu Group entered the bottle cap industry. In 2011, Yibin Hengxu Investment Group Co., Ltd. was established, which has kiln technology, wine packaging, building materials, real estate development and other industries. In 2012, Hengxu established a microfinance company.
According to media reports, Cao Peijun was once the "bottle cap king" of China's wine industry. Many wines that can be named in China, the bottle caps are used by his family, including Wuliangye, Maotai, Langjiu, Luzhou Laojiao and so on.
With the rise of capital, Hengxu Group has also become high-profile in the industry.
In October 2013, at the South Bank Sports Center in Yibin City, Hengxu Group held a "Hengxu Light" star concert under the title, inviting many stars.
Before being investigated, Cao Peijun had unlimited scenery and won honors including "China Era Leader", "CCTV National Top Ten Economic Leaders", "National Outstanding Entrepreneurs Supporting Non-public Party Building", "Excellent Entrepreneurs in Sichuan Province", "Labor Model in Nanxi District", "Model of Dedication and Dedication ethics in Yibin City" and so on.
In addition, Sichuan Daily also published an article in 2016 that Cao Peijun donated 1 million yuan to the Dongliang Project in Nanxi District for 8 consecutive years, and donated 5 million yuan to establish the "Hengxu Education Development Fund", and also invested 1 million yuan to build the Hengxu Elderly (Children) Day Care Center for the Elderly for three consecutive years.
Tear open the other side: involvement in black and evil
However, no matter how beautiful and disguised Cao Pei had been, he could not hide his evil deeds.
In January 2019, Yibin released the news that Cao Peidu, chairman of Yibin Hengxu Investment Group Co., Ltd., was suspected of serious violations of the law, and after the Yibin Municipal Supervision Commission designated jurisdiction, the GaoXian Supervision Commission is currently conducting a supervision and investigation of Cao Peijun.
On November 19, 2020, nearly two years after Cao Peijun was investigated, the Public Security Bureau of Yibin City, Sichuan Province, issued an announcement on the public collection of clues about Cao Peijun and others' illegal crimes:
In accordance with the unified arrangements for the special struggle against organized crime and evil forces, under the command of the Sichuan Provincial Public Security Department, the Yibin City Public Security Bureau smashed the major criminal organizations involved in criminal syndicates and evil forces headed by Cao Peidu and who had long been entrenched in our city. In order to thoroughly ascertain the facts of the crimes of this criminal organization involved in criminal syndicates and evil forces, it is now open to the whole society to collect clues on the illegal and criminal acts of Cao Peijun and Cao Hongping's criminal organizations involved in criminal syndicates and evil forces.
I. All enterprises, units and victims who have been illegally infringed upon by Cao Peijun and others should report the case to the public security organs as soon as possible and provide relevant evidentiary materials to assist the public security organs in investigating and solving the case. It is hoped that the broad masses of the people, especially those in the know, will actively report and expose, and truthfully provide the public security organs with clues about Cao Peijun and others' violations and crimes.
II. Urge those involved in Cao Peijun and others' violations and crimes to voluntarily surrender themselves to the public security organs and strive for leniency and leniency. Whoever shields, harbors, or conceals the facts of a crime, informs a criminal suspect, conceals and destroys evidence, or helps evade the crackdown of the law, the public security organs will sternly pursue legal responsibility in accordance with law.
III. Public security organs solemnly promise: Anyone who provides case leads that are verified to be true will be rewarded in accordance with the provisions of the "Measures for Rewards for Whistleblowing.". Public security organs will strictly preserve the confidentiality of informants, victims, and witnesses, and protect their personal safety in accordance with law.
On February 10 this year, the Supreme People's Procuratorate disclosed that the case of Cao Peijun in Yibin, Sichuan Province, was supervised by the Supreme People's Procuratorate.
According to the data, from January to November 2021, procuratorial organs at all levels across the country approved the arrest of 2,179 cases of 5,341 people for crimes related to criminal syndicates and vices, prosecuted 3,260 cases of 17,465 people, and realized the liquidation of all existing cases during the special struggle in the procuratorial link.
From January to November 2021, procuratorial organs across the country arrested 528 cases of 2,503 people, prosecuted 495 cases and 4,616 people, and formulated and issued 478 procuratorial recommendations for 528 cases of mafia-related crimes in the four major industries of information networks, natural resources, transportation, and engineering construction.
Source: Zhonghong Network