"After four o'clock in the afternoon, don't go to Secretary Yang, you can't find him, he must be playing basketball."
This sentence is the default unspoken rule in the circle of cadres in Qianjiang District, Chongqing, and the Secretary Yang they call him is also known as "Secretary qiu".
In 2010, after Yang Hongwei was promoted to the secretary of the Qianjiang District Party Committee of Chongqing, he believed that his career was difficult to promote again.
Already a local "number one", he decided to enjoy it and began to take advantage of his position to engage in corruption.
Yang Hongwei is passionate about basketball, formed a basketball circle in his jurisdiction, and promoted subordinates by playing basketball skills.
He also played mahjong with the business owner all night, turned the mahjong table into Vanity Fair, and the boss who accompanied him to play mahjong could not stand it.
When accepting bribes, Yang Hongwei always held a fluke mentality, believing that the central investigation would not come to him.
However, the paper can never contain the fire, and the facts of his corruption were all involved when the Discipline Inspection Commission investigated another case.
Play basketball during working hours, people give nicknames "ball secretary"
"He likes to play basketball and often arranges for the staff around him to play basketball with him during working hours."
Yang Hongwei's love for basketball can be said to be obsessed, almost every day, he has to take time to play basketball for a while.
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In order to be able to organize a "basketball game" anytime and anywhere, Yang Hongwei specially recruited a group of subordinates who are good at playing basketball.
Although these people perform well in basketball, most of them have mediocre work ability and are not suitable for working within the system.
Yang Hongwei did not care about these things, in his heart, as long as he could accompany him to play basketball, his subordinates were good subordinates.
Whenever personnel are transferred and promoted, he also gives priority to his basketball players and determines the status by basketball ability.
"He uses people in his circle, whether he has the ability or not." Yang Hongwei's employment standard is so simple and crude.
Many people have seized yang Hongwei's psychology and used basketball to get close to him and mingle with him.
After visiting the comrades who investigated Yang Hongwei, they found that these people had basically been reused and promoted by Yang Hongwei.
In order to play basketball, Yang Hongwei often left his job without permission, neglected his duties, and used his working hours to go to the basketball court.
"Don't go to Secretary Yang after four o'clock in the afternoon" has become an open secret among cadres in Chongqing's Qianjiang District.
Of course, Yang Hongwei is not bold enough to dare to unabashedly announce the fact that he plays basketball during his work hours.
In order to hide his eyes, he specially chartered a stadium, which was only open to insiders he trusted.
Yang Hongwei's basketball activities are almost never interrupted for objective reasons, whether it is cloudy or rainy, he is present on the basketball court.
People who shared Yang Hongwei's stink used this as a way to please him, but their subordinates, who were unwilling to cater to him, were made miserable by his hobby.
Since he would disappear after four o'clock in the afternoon, many cadres waiting for him to sign had to change their work plans.
They can only go to him in advance or postpone the time to report to him, and in the long run, they have attracted the dissatisfaction of many cadres.
Everyone did not dare to directly point out his faults on the surface, but in private they gave him a not very good title - "Secretary of the Ball".
The so-called soldiers bear one, will bear a nest, Yang Hongwei's behavior makes others begin to learn from it.
Other officials in Chongqing's Qianjiang district followed suit, making excuses to sneak out during working hours to play.
Yang Hongwei single-handedly disrupted the originally thriving official atmosphere in Qianjiang District.
Mahjong table fame and fortune fair
In addition to playing basketball, Yang Hongwei has another hobby, that is, playing mahjong.
However, officials like Yang Hongwei do not go to low-grade street teahouses when playing mahjong.
For him, mahjong is not just a leisure activity after tea and dinner, but a place where he and business owners connect with "feelings".
In Qianjiang, Chongqing, there is such a private luxury clubhouse, where government officials and business owners come and go.
In order to make the power and money transaction more secretive, the location of the private clubhouse was deliberately selected in an office building that looked ordinary on the outside.
Private clubs take the form of a membership system, and only insiders who know the doorway can get admission tickets.
It seems that there is not much space here, but in fact, it is complete, with restaurants, KTV, tea houses and other facilities to provide customers with one-stop service.
Yang Hongwei often meets here with acquaintance business owners, and after eating, several people will naturally play a few rounds of mahjong.
In Vanity Fair, everyone is not playing cards, but people in the light and in the dark.
The business owner who plays cards with Yang Hongwei either has something to ask for, or he will rely on his power in the future.
Therefore, when playing cards, the business owner will deliberately release water, do not make a round, do not play cards, and let Yang Hongwei win money at the card table alone.
After each game, Yang Hongwei can win at least a thousand yuan, and even tens of thousands of yuan when he is more.
This feeling of winning every bet made Yang Hongwei very addicted, and he formed a card game at every turn and invited people to come and play cards.
After a long time, the business owners who played cards with him were a little tired of the card game, and even claimed that they couldn't stand it.
Of course, the bosses are not worried about the money exported, but do not have the extra energy to deal with the frequent and lengthy hand games.
Pu Heng, the owner of the company who often plays cards with Yang Hongwei, said that Yang Hongwei's time playing cards is really more than he can bear.
"Usually after work, it is called until two or three o'clock in the morning, and the end of one or two o'clock is early."
Yang Hongwei did not say the end, and the business owner at the table did not dare to mention the matter of the dispersal.
I can only endure sleepiness and continue to play cards with him, during which I have to take time to praise his card skills.
Of course, for business owners, playing cards with Yang Hongwei is a good thing for Wanli.
As long as they can have a good relationship with Yang Hongwei, a little project leaking out of his fingers can make them make huge profits.
Yang Hongwei knew all this in his heart, the project was to be done anyway, it was better to give it to the bosses who knew each other.
And if these projects can boost the economy, the final political achievements will still be counted on his head, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.
Therefore, when Yang Hongwei was the secretary of the Qianjiang District Party Committee of Chongqing Municipality, he disregarded the actual situation in the jurisdiction and arbitrarily approved the project.
In the end, Qianjiang District was heavily indebted, and its economic benefits plummeted.
Pay attention to "cost performance" for officials
Yang Hongwei was born in 1964 in an ordinary family in Dazhou, Sichuan Province, and entered the system at the age of 20 to start working.
In 2010, he was officially appointed secretary of the Qianjiang District Party Committee of Chongqing, and with the power of the district in his hands, he began to breed corrupt ideas.
At this time, Yang Hongwei had been in politics for 26 years, and he believed that his political career had entered a bottleneck period, and it was difficult to make a bigger breakthrough.
At the same time, he felt that his current rank was the most "cost-effective" grade in the official field.
Having real power but not being too conspicuous, it is difficult to attract supervision and investigation by the central authorities after using power to grab benefits.
Yang Hongwei, who has an idea in his heart, believes that he has worked hard for so many years, and it is time to enjoy it.
He prides himself on being the "boss" of Qianjiang District, and he begins to talk about pomp and circumstance in everything, pursuing a life of luxury and pleasure.
"My main psychology, after all, I am the secretary of the district party committee and the boss in Qianjiang, and that desire, that kind of thought, hopes to be satisfied to a certain extent."
A business owner who has a deep intersection with Yang Hongwei said that Yang Hongwei attaches great importance to his "boss" status.
In ordinary exchanges, they have to use their power to suppress them at every turn, and the bureaucratic atmosphere is very strong.
In order to create a small circle that he can trust, Yang Hongwei took the initiative to find a business owner who can "cooperate".
He is responsible for helping business owners operate illegally and win projects, and business owners return them with money or luxury goods.
According to statistics, over the years, Yang Hongwei has collected millions of yuan in bribes at the card table alone.
In the field of engineering, Yang Hongwei's face of embezzlement and bribery is even more ugly, with a total of more than 34 million yuan received.
Behind many people's livelihood projects in Qianjiang District, Chongqing, there are Yang Hongwei's black box operations and profits.
In the face of the business owners who asked for him, he was even more open-mouthed, and he had to share 55% of the profits with one mouth.
"Started with me 50%, then said no, 55%." Pu Heng, a businessman involved in the case, said that he was not easy to refute and could only agree.
Relying on this project, Yang Hongwei has received a total profit of more than 10 million yuan.
Yang Hongwei promoted subordinates not to look at work ability, only to look at their daily relationship, relying on nepotism to take the position of a large number of cadres.
The most prominent of these are the chairmen of two state-owned enterprises in Qianjiang District, The City Investment Group and Hongye Company, both of whom are old acquaintances of Yang Hongwei.
In order to grasp the discourse power of municipal construction projects, Yang Hongwei specially transferred two acquaintances as the chairman of the company.
One of these two people was his old subordinate, the other was his old classmate, and they had a lot of relationship with him.
After these cadres are promoted, it is often impossible to do things for the people, but to follow Yang Hongwei's bureaucratic atmosphere.
After Yang Hongwei "fell from power," cadres in other engineering fields in Chongqing's Qianjiang District were also investigated by the discipline inspection department.
Of the 70 cadres surveyed, as many as 17 were corrupt and corrupt, and most of them were former close associates of Yang Hongwei.
Verdict! The "big tiger" wept and repented
In 2019, Yang Hongwei finally revealed the fox's tail after 9 years of running amok in Qianjiang District.
The Chongqing Municipal Discipline Inspection and Supervision Organs were investigating another case of officials suspected of corruption.
However, in the record of the official's case, Yang Hongwei's name appeared coincidentally.
The Supervision Organ seized on this small thread and believed that Yang Hongwei was also seriously suspected and that it was necessary to conduct a preliminary investigation into him.
During the visit, investigators found that Yang Hongwei had long been "notorious", and many people had more or less opinions about him.
In May of the same year, after learning about the preliminary situation, the supervision department announced that a disciplinary investigation into Yang Hongwei was officially launched.
According to the survey results, during his tenure in Qianjiang District, Chongqing, Yang Hongwei has been using his position to grab benefits and accept bribes of 34 million yuan.
After the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China was convened, the Central Committee vigorously grasped the phenomenon of corruption, and At this time, Yang Hongwei still did not want to repent and continued to accumulate wealth.
When Yang Hongwei talked about his mental journey during this time, he couldn't help but show a look of regret.
"I have this awareness and thought, it always has an end, and it is lucky to avoid it." He was always lucky.
What he never expected was that the central authorities were determined to crack down on corruption, and he could not escape the net of justice if he repeatedly stepped on the red line.
When he was just taken away for investigation, Yang Hongwei still had illusions, believing that as long as he did not recognize it, he could retreat with his whole body.
In fact, when his "friends" who were the owners of the enterprises were questioned by the Supervision Organs of the Discipline Inspection Commission, they had already told the truth one hundred and fifty years ago.
When the comrade in charge of the interrogation told Yang Hongwei the news, he woke up like a dream and suddenly woke up.
"I thought these bosses were real friends, thought they were leading them to 'get rich together,' and fantasized that they would be 'tight-lipped.'"
Yang Hongwei, whose psychological defense line was completely destroyed, no longer struggled and chose to confess to the organization.
In the interrogation room, Yang Hongwei originally confessed his criminal facts and corruption experience over the years.
In the face of the impending legal sanctions, he also wrote a confession with tears in his eyes.
The confessional book dissects in detail the course of his mental transformation and shows how a cadre fell into the abyss of sin step by step.
He wrote: "In the face of the promotion and reuse of the organization, I did not have a strong sense of gratitude, and my ideological realm did not get a higher level. ”
He said that he had a bad idea and went astray of "ignoring the laws of the country and accepting a large number of bribes".
In October 2019, Yang Hongwei was officially transferred to the judicial authorities, and he was only sent to court after the evidence was sorted out.
In June 2020, the judiciary filed a public prosecution against Yang Hongwei, and the court held a public trial of Yang Hongwei's embezzlement and bribery case.
After the trial, the court held that Yang Hongwei took advantage of his position to embezzle and accept bribes and neglect his duties in his work.
The behavior was heinous, the consequences were serious, the discipline of honest government was seriously violated, and the atmosphere of the qianjiang officialdom and the normal life of the people were affected.
According to the relevant laws, Yang Hongwei was sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined 2 million yuan.
After the verdict was handed down, Yang Hongwei did not file another appeal, but silently accepted his ending.
Although Yang Hongwei has "fallen from power," the official atmosphere in the Qianjiang District of Chongqing City, which he had disturbed, has not yet been completely corrected.
The Supervision Organ of the Chongqing Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection is continuing to investigate the relevant personnel involved in the case, and it is bound to return to the official arena with solemnity and clarity.
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