At the end of the 80s of last century, Fang Fuming, who had served as the deputy director of the Zhejiang Provincial Electric Power Bureau, suddenly resigned his post and settled in the United States, and became an American citizen. I thought that this was just Fang Fuming's yearning for life in the United States, but I didn't expect it to be involved in a spy case.
Fang Fuming, who became an American, still travels between China and the United States, discussing cooperation with former leaders and colleagues. It is precisely under the cloak of commercial cooperation that Fang Fuming brazenly sells domestic intelligence to the United States and Japan.
Fang Fuming
In 2000, after obtaining evidence of Fang Fuming's espionage, state security officers immediately launched an arrest of Fang Fuming. When he was arrested, Fang Fuming said arrogantly: "I am an American, you have no right to arrest me!" ”
Why did a former deputy commissioner of electricity become a spy for the United States? What kind of punishment did the arrogant "American" Fang Fuming receive from the mainland afterwards?
1. Cold nobleman
In 1936, Fang Fuming was born in a peasant family in Zhejiang, when China was still in the midst of war and turmoil, and Fang Fuming's life was full of hardships, but fortunately, his parents were very supportive of Fang Fuming's study. After a difficult road of study, the founding of New China gave Fang Fuming a chance to change his life.
In the early 50s, the new China could be said to be poor and white, everyone was working hard to build the motherland, and Fang Fuming was admitted to Shanghai Jiao Tong University with excellent results. College students in the 50s are not exaggerated to describe them as the proud son of heaven.
After graduating from university, Fang Fuming was assigned to work in Zhejiang Electric Power Bureau by the state without worrying about finding a job, so he worked for half his life. By the 80s of last century, Fang Fuming was already the deputy director of Zhejiang Electric Power Bureau. Compared with ordinary people, Fang Fuming is undoubtedly a big official, but Fang Fuming, who is nearly 50 years old, has also come to an end, and the rest is to stay in his post for ten years and wait for retirement.
The deputy director in the 80s, although he lived better than ordinary people, but the national society experienced the impact of reform and opening up, and everyone focused on money, and Fang Fuming was no exception. As the deputy director Fang Fuming, there is never a lack of rich businessmen around him, but this group of people who are not as good as Fang Fuming in terms of ability and knowledge, but their income can be a hundred times higher than him.
Fang Fuming only hated that he was born too early and did not catch up with the good times. Although I envy the life of a rich person, the work still has to continue, and Fang Fuming, who is 50 years old, resigns from the post of deputy director and goes to the sea to do business, right? Even if Fang Fuming wants to make money, a clear water gate from the power bureau can't give Fang Fuming much room to play.
If the power bureau is a Qingshui Yamen, it is already a thing of the past, and by the mid-80s, with the influx of foreign capital, the speed of domestic production and construction has greatly increased, and the demand for electricity has also increased. The construction of power plant projects has become a sweet potato in the eyes of major enterprises.
In 1985, Japan's Marubeni Co., Ltd. wanted to break into the mainland market and won the Beilun Port Power Plant project. However, this project has been bid by many companies at home and abroad, and Marubeni Co., Ltd. is not strong in its own strength, and it is likely that it will not be able to win the bid. Since you can't take it down by relying on the light, then use the dark one.
The Japanese moved their minds, and they found Fang Fuming, deputy director of the Zhejiang Electric Power Bureau, with a heavy salute. It was the Japanese who gave this gift that opened a new door to Fang Fuming's life. Seeing that it was the Japanese who came to him, Fang Fuming wanted to refuse directly, but when the Japanese took out a thick wad of US dollar bills, Fang Fuming's eyes suddenly couldn't move away from the US dollar bills.
This is $160,000, and Fang Fuming has never seen so much money in his life. Beilun Port Power Plant was a key project in mainland China at that time, and was later renamed Zhejiang Beilun Power Plant, which is the first million-kilowatt-class large-scale power plant in Zhejiang, and its importance is self-evident.
But no matter how important the Beilun Port Power Plant is, it will not make a penny for Fang Fuming, but by helping Japanese companies find connections, you can get 160,000 US dollars, and the second half of Fang Fuming's life will be settled. Fang Fuming inevitably had to deal with wealthy businessmen in the bidding process of the project.
Fang Fuming envied the drunken life of rich businessmen, and now a heavy gift from the Japanese has opened the door of evil in Fang Fuming's heart. After getting the money, Fang Fuming couldn't handle this matter alone, so he found Wu Shouren and Liu Liancheng to help Japanese companies win this project.
2. Go to the United States to become a naturalized citizen
In 1989, in the eyes of everyone's astonishment, Fang Fuming resigned as the deputy director of the power bureau and decided to take his family to the United States to settle. In the eighties and nineties of the last century, there was a wave of going abroad in China, and everyone who could go abroad, especially to the United States, was either rich or expensive, Fang Fuming was 53 years old at this time, and he was a senior cadre in the system, not waiting for retirement in China, what did he do in the United States?
Fang Fuming's family also did not understand Fang Fuming's choice, but he couldn't help him, so he had to agree to go abroad. In the crowded airport, Fang Fuming anxiously waited for the plane that carried him to the United States. No one will know that in Fang Fuming's suitcase, there are a full 80,000 US dollars, which is the confidence of Fang Fuming to settle in the United States with his family.
Back in 1985, since Fang Fuming chose to cooperate with Wu Shouren and Liu Liancheng, it meant that he had the confidence to pull the two into the water. Fang Fuming gave Wu Shouren and Liu Liancheng 40,000 US dollars respectively to complete this matter. Fang Fuming received a huge sum of $80,000 alone, and could no longer look at his position as deputy director of the power bureau, so he chose to resign.
In addition to wanting to go to the United States to enjoy life as soon as possible, another important reason is that he is afraid that he will be severely punished by the state after the East Window incident, so it is better to run to the United States as soon as possible.
In the 80s, China and the United States were still in the honeymoon period, and it was not too difficult for Fang Fuming to immigrate to the United States with his family. Wu Shouren, Liu Liancheng and Fang Fuming are already grasshoppers tied to a rope, but they are not willing to give up everything in China, so they choose to bring the US dollars entrusted to Fang Fuming to their son in the United States.
After coming to the United States, Fang Fuming did see the flower world of capitalism, and only hated that he was too old to better enjoy American life. After several years of squandering, the $80,000 that Fang Fuming brought to the United States could not help but spend, and Fang Fuming had to find a way to make money.
An old man who is nearly 60 years old and has served in the Chinese system for most of his life, shouting at people and commanding people, what ability does he have to earn money? The only thing worth relying on is Fang Fuming's relationships in China. It was in mind that a company in Hong Kong threw an olive branch to Fang Fuming, and in Fang Fuming's eyes, this was a lifesaver.
Without saying a word, Fang Fuming agreed to the invitation of the Hong Kong company, and in 1994 he officially became a U.S. citizen and became an American. The Hong Kong company did not come to let Fang Fuming continue to be the leader, but asked him to go to his former leaders and colleagues and bribe them to win over the country's engineering projects.
Fang Fuming had done this a few years ago, and naturally there was no resistance in his heart, and now he just wanted to make money, and he didn't have the slightest emotion for the former motherland. Ask yourself, as a college student in the 50s, Fang Fuming directly entered the system to work, it can be said that he has never suffered and suffered, and the country has never owed him anything, but Fang Fuming not only did not have the slightest gratitude, but blamed that era buried himself.
Fang Fuming, who had long been distorted ideologically, embarked on a path of betrayal of the motherland. The operator behind this so-called Hong Kong company is actually a multinational company in the United States, which is why Fang Fuming was able to obtain American citizenship so smoothly.
After receiving the American task, Fang Fuming rushed between China and the United States. Fang Fuming's frequent activities have attracted the attention of mainland personnel, as long as China bids for certain projects, Fang Fuming will rush to China non-stop, and with Fang Fuming's participation in the bidding activities, the company behind him will always win the bid to win the project.
These abnormal performances have to make people suspect that Fang Fuming is engaged in power and wealth trading, but because there is no direct evidence, the mainland is not easy to arrest Fang Fuming, so it can only continue to investigate secretly. In 1999, when some projects on the mainland were about to start bidding again, Fang Fuming flew back to China from the United States, and as soon as he got off the plane, he went straight to the luxury hotel to entertain his old colleagues and friends.
Just when Fang Fuming and these people were having a drink, the staff who had been secretly investigating Fang Fuming sneaked into Fang Fuming's room and found the computer that Fang Fuming had been carrying, which stored evidence of Fang Fuming's long-term bribery, and no matter how well Fang Fuming disguised, he finally showed his horse's feet.
Third, the fate of spies
Fang Fuming has always strictly supervised his personal computer, but this negligence allowed our personnel to seize the opportunity.
Fang Fuming's personal computer is not like ordinary laptops on the market, but very high-end confidential computers. But this is not difficult for our personnel, after cracking, our personnel got a lot of data, after copying these data away, everything was restored to its original state. When Fang Fuming returned to the room drunk, he did not realize that his secret had been discovered.
The data, copied from Fang Fuming's personal computer, was densely written with records of Fang Fuming's bribery of officials, as well as some confidential information obtained from domestic espionage. Fang Fuming's spy identity is already a certainty. According to statistics, Fang Fuming provided more than 500 pieces of intelligence information to the United States and bribed more than 30 officials.
With this data, wouldn't we be able to arrest these bribe-taking officials in one fell swoop? It's not that simple. The cunning Fang Fuming wrote pseudonyms on the bribery list, and in reality there was not a single official whose name was written on the list. Although Fang Fuming's tricks have added some difficulty to the detection work of our personnel, the legal net has been restored and not leaked, as long as the investigation continues, we will definitely be able to dig up all these moths.
The reason why Fang Fuming wanted to record all the bribery transactions was firstly because they had to price them differently according to their level and ease of doing things, and secondly, he had to report these data to his superior, that is, the United States. It's just that Fang Fuming didn't expect that this would become evidence that he couldn't argue.
After a detailed review, Fang Fuming's bribe list included a handwritten name called "Yao Wuhong", who had been working with Fang Fuming for a long time, and according to an investigation of officials who had interacted with Fang Fuming, the staff found that Wu Shouren's handwriting was strikingly similar to this Yao Wuhong.
The national security personnel immediately found Wu Shouren and saw that his corrupt deeds were exposed, Wu Shouren's psychological defense line collapsed instantly, and he honestly explained his power and wealth transactions with Fang Fuming. After there was a breakthrough, most of the officials on Fang Fuming's list found the corresponding personnel one by one.
With conclusive evidence, state security officers immediately arrested Fang Fuming in 2000. Seeing that Wu Shouren and the others had already confessed, Fang Fuming could only confess his crime. After Fang Fuming was caught, a large number of borers were also dug up. From Fang Fuming's mouth, a "big fish" that was not on the bribery list also burst out.
Cha Keming, former vice minister of the Ministry of Electric Power Industry and deputy general manager of the State Power Corporation, accepted bribes from Japanese people to open the door for Japanese companies in project tenders. The Japanese who bribed Cha Keming was called Kunio Nagase, and Fang Fuming was a "colleague". For example, Fang Fuming and Kunio Nagase are spies from the United States and Japan who infiltrated the mainland and corrupted mainland officials to gain benefits and obtain intelligence for the United States and Japan.
Although Fang Fuming admitted his identity as an American spy, he was already a U.S. citizen, and the case was also under pressure from the United States.
For a moth in the system like Wu Shouren, the mainland naturally has to severely punish him, but how can Fang Fuming be judged to be an "American"? Finally, in 2002, Fang Fuming's case was finally tried, and Fang Fuming was sentenced to five years in prison, after which he was deported.
Some people may feel that the punishment of the other party's Fuming is too light to deter the little criminals, because although Fang Fuming is a "traitor", his conviction can only be based on crimes such as leaking state secrets and bribery, while Cha Keming, Wu Shouren and others were sentenced to 13 years in prison and confiscated all personal property.
After being arrested, Fang Fuming was full of confidence, because he knew that with his "American" status, there would never be an accident. Western media are also constantly spreading various rumors and rhetoric that Fang Fuming has been secretly tried by our side. The mainland has solemnly refuted this. In the eyes of many people, a sentence of 5 years is not painful at all for Fang Fuming, who betrayed the motherland.
But at this time, Fang Fuming was already in his 60s, and the mainland could not sentence him to ten years and eight years to stay in prison until the end of his life, so he was sentenced to five years and deported, so that Fang Fuming could no longer set foot on Chinese soil. For someone like Fang Fuming who betrayed the motherland, how to punish it cannot be exaggerated.