According to the surging news reported on December 10, according to the Hunan Changde Court Network, on December 10, according to the designation of the Hunan Provincial High Court, Wen Liehong and 25 other defendants were suspected of organizing, leading, and participating in triad-type organizations, and were tried in public at the Changde Intermediate People's Court in the first instance. The trial time of the case is expected to last 8-15 days.
The scene of the trial Is pictured from the Changde Court website
Wen Liehong was known as "Third Master Wen" in Changsha, and it was rumored that he had been a "black boss" for a long time, and his issuance of usurious loans to the bosses of relevant private enterprises caused disputes and conflicts. In February 2017, Wen Liehong was arrested and the members of his organization were arrested one by one.
Wen Liehong (second from right) was arrested Picture from the red net
The Paper learned from multiple sources that Wen Liehong's case was a major triad-related case listed and supervised by the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Ministry of Public Security, and the official "8.19" project was investigated by the police in Changde, Hunan Province. Because of his involvement in Wen Liehong's case, Zhou Fubo, former executive deputy director of the Hunan Provincial Public Security Department, Shan Dayong, former executive deputy director of the Changsha Municipal Public Security Bureau, and many other police officials were dismissed.
The 25 defendants were prosecuted in three cases, and the assets involved in the case were frozen for 1.2 billion yuan
On July 24, 2017, Wen Liehong, who was detained in the case, escaped from a detention center in Changde, and the police offered a reward of 100,000 yuan for the pursuit, which caused widespread concern.
Hunan Daily has since reported that Wen Liehong used 20 million yuan as bait to "plot against" Liu Mou, and with the help of Liu Mou, gradually grasped the internal situation of the detention center, such as "there are several doors outside the detention center, the protective net is not firm, and where the guard monitoring area is located". At about 6:00 a.m. on July 24, 2017, Wen Liehong took advantage of the fact that the guards were asleep and conspired with Liu to successfully escape from the detention center. 50 hours later, at 8 a.m. on July 26, Wen Liehong was arrested again.
According to the above report, Wen Liehong was born in December 1969 in Minfu Village, Qiaoyi Town, Wangcheng District, Changsha. Because he was the third oldest among his brothers and sisters, people called him "Wen San's Servant", and after mixing into the underworld, he was called "Wen San Ye". Wen Liehong only read the fourth grade of primary school, then dropped out of school and began to mix with society. In 1997, Wen Liehong, who made a little money through the package project, fell into the vice of gambling, and later opened a casino and a company to collect accounts, accumulating a lot of wealth. Gambling is Wen Liehong's greatest hobby. Once, Wen Liehong "went out of the thousands" at the gambling table and won back more than 20 million; one day in 2012, Wen Liehong spent more than 5 million yuan to lead a group of card friends and horse bag special planes to Singapore to gamble, but this time Wen Liehong himself lost more than one hundred million.
On September 20, 2018, the Changde Municipal People's Procuratorate filed a public prosecution with the Changde Intermediate People's Court for Wen Liehong and others in organizing, leading, and participating in a mafia-type case.
According to the prosecution's allegations, since 2002, Wen Liehong has wantonly issued usurious loans to some business owners in the province, opened casinos, organized gambling games, and provided gambling settlement in major hotels in Changsha, attracting and soliciting many business owners to participate in gambling activities and extracting profits from them. In 2009, Wen Liehong recruited defendants She Bin, Gong Hao, and others to use violent means such as illegal detention to recover usurious debts and gambling debts. In February 2010, with the advice and assistance of defendant Yao Yue, Wen Liehong registered and established Hunan Hongda Pawnshop Co., Ltd., using the corporatized model of usurious lending, violent debt collection, and casinos, and gradually established a relatively stable mafia-type organization with defendant Wen Liehong as the organizer and leader, defendants Shu Kai, She Bin, and Gong Hao as backbone members, defendants Liu Chuping, Wang Feng, Yao Yue, Yi Huiyue, and Wen Ya as active participants, and defendants Chen Zhifu, Hu Gaosheng, Zhang Xiangwei, And Huang Zemeng as other participants. The criminal organization has seized huge economic benefits by systematically and for a long time illegal and criminal activities such as illegal usurious lending, violent debt collection, extortion, forced trading, fraud, opening casinos, gambling, etc., and has sealed, seized, and frozen more than 1.2 billion yuan of the organization's assets involved in the case; causing many business owners whose legitimate interests have been damaged to dare not report and accuse; seriously interfering with and undermining the normal production, operation, and work order of many companies, causing their business activities to come to a standstill and the real estate projects they have developed to a halt. As a result, it has triggered many large-scale mass incidents, causing a major impact in Yuelu District of Changsha City, Dingcheng District of Changde City and other places, and seriously undermining the local economic order and social life order.
Two police officials served as umbrellas, and one person has been prosecuted
The Paper previously reported that because of its involvement in The Wen Liehong's case, a number of officials in Hunan province were dismissed, including Zhou Fubo, former executive deputy director of the Hunan Provincial Public Security Department, and many other officials.
After Wen Liehong was arrested, on March 1, 2017, the official website of the Hunan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection released the news: Zhou Fubo, director of the Hunan Provincial Comprehensive Management Office (at the level of the main department) and former executive deputy director of the Hunan Provincial Public Security Department, was under investigation by the organization for suspected major violations of discipline. On August 25, 2017, the Hunan Provincial People's Procuratorate arrested Zhou Fubo on suspicion of accepting bribes in accordance with the law.
On March 23, 2017, Zhang Xiangtao, former member of the Standing Committee of the Changsha Municipal Party Committee and minister of propaganda, was "shuanggui" by the Hunan Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission. On May 8, 2018, the Changde Municipal People's Procuratorate filed a public prosecution with the Changde Intermediate People's Court for the crime of accepting bribes and the crime of having a large amount of assets of unknown origin.
In November 2017, Li Zhengke, former deputy secretary of the Hunan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection (at the level of the main department), was subjected to organizational review. On September 12, 2018, the Intermediate People's Court of Chenzhou City, Hunan Province, held a public hearing on Li Zhengke's bribery and huge amount of assets of unknown origin.
According to democracy and the legal system magazine, Zhou Fubo, Zhang Xiangtao, and Li Zhengke are all "people in the circle" of Wen Liehong. Their downfall is all related to Wen Liehong.
According to the above report, when Zhou Fubo was the vice mayor of Shaoyang City, he was fascinated by gambling, often returning to Changsha from Shaoyang on Friday, going straight to the gambling place, gambling with Wen Liehong and others until Sunday night before returning to Shaoyang to work, fighting at the card table for two days and two nights, losing more than 2 million yuan at the most. After losing money, he asked Wen Liehong to borrow usurious loans. After becoming the leader of the Public Security Department, Wen Liehong exempted him from interest, but the huge principal has not been able to be repaid, so he obediently became Wen Liehong's umbrella for the evil forces.
In October 2018, the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection publicly exposed five typical cases of mafia-related evil corruption and "protective umbrellas", one of which involved Zhou Fubo, former executive deputy director of the Hunan Provincial Public Security Department, who served as a "protective umbrella" for Wen Liehong and others, and Shan Dayong, former executive deputy director of the Changsha Municipal Public Security Bureau.
According to the circular, in December 2014, the Changsha Municipal Public Security Bureau filed a case against Wen Liehong, the ringleader of a criminal gang involved in the mafia, on suspicion of tax evasion and illegal business operations. To this end, Wen Liehong repeatedly asked Zhou Fubo, then deputy secretary of the party committee and executive deputy director of the provincial public security department, for attention (Zhou because he often gambled in the casino opened by Wen Liehong). In the first half of 2015, Zhou Fubo instructed the Changsha Municipal Public Security Bureau to suspend the investigation and coordinate Wen Liehong's relationship with the whistleblower. Later, the Changsha Municipal Public Security Bureau made a decision to withdraw the case. Shan Dayong, former deputy secretary of the party committee and executive deputy director of the Changsha Municipal Public Security Bureau, contacted Wen Liehong, a party in the case, in violation of the law, to inform him, and took advantage of his position to act as a "protective umbrella" for Wen Liehong's criminal gang involved in organized crime and accepted huge amounts of property. Zhou Fubo and Shan Dayong also had other problems of violating discipline and law, and they were all expelled from the party and dismissed from public office, and the suspected crimes were transferred to the judicial organs for handling. Other public officials who provided assistance to Wen Liehong's criminal gangs involved in organized crime were punished by party discipline and government affairs, and those suspected of committing crimes were transferred to the judicial organs for handling.
The Supreme People's Procuratorate announced on October 29 that Hunan procuratorial organs have prosecuted Zhou Fubo for suspected bribery, a huge amount of assets of unknown origin, and harboring and conniving at a mafia-type organization.
The Hunan Xiangxi Prefecture Procuratorate alleged that Zhou Fubo, as a state functionary, took advantage of his position to seek benefits for others and illegally accepted property from others, the amount of which was particularly huge; the amount of property and expenditure obviously exceeded the lawful income, and the source could not be explained, and the difference was particularly huge; as a functionary of a state organ, he shielded a mafia-type organization and connived at an underworld-type organization to carry out illegal and criminal activities, and should be investigated for criminal responsibility in accordance with law for the crime of accepting bribes, the crime of concealing and conniving at a mafia-type organization.