The trial lasted more than 10 hours longer than the Chen Xuyuan case, and it involved five crimes, setting a record for anti-corruption in football
On March 28, Beijing time, Li Tie was suspected of accepting bribes, offering bribes, offering bribes by units, accepting bribes by non-state functionaries, and offering bribes to non-state functionaries.
Li Tie's case is extremely complicated
At 8:30 this morning, Li Tie's case was tried in the first instance at the Xianning City Intermediate People's Court in Hubei Province, and the case was still being tried after 6:30 p.m. Counting the 45 minutes of the lunch break in between, the trial has already exceeded 10 hours, and there is no sign of its end.
According to mainland law, the trial procedure of a criminal case includes pre-trial preparation, announcement of the opening of the trial, court investigation, court debate, and the defendant's final statement. The presentation and cross-examination of evidence belongs to the court investigation stage. As of the noon adjournment, the court investigation phase of Li Tie's case has not yet ended.
You must know that the first trial of Chen Xuyuan's case ended before 17 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, and an official announcement was issued, and the same was true of Yu Hongchen's case. This shows that the complexity of Li Tie's case is greater than that of Chen Xuyuan and Yu Hongchen.
This is reminiscent of the last anti-corruption campaign in football in more than a decade. In the football trials in Tieling and Dandong that year, the suspects also went in early in the morning and the sun set before they came out. According to reporter Zhao Yu's recollection: "At the entrance of the Tieling Court, it was more than 20 degrees below zero, and the reporters waited for a day. Yang Yimin's lawyer and the reporter stayed in the same hotel, and everyone went to the lawyer's room that night for an interview, which was 14 years ago”
Suspected of 5 crimes, the most in the history of anti-corruption in football
The reason why Li Tie's case is so complicated is that he is suspected of five crimes, namely, accepting bribes, offering bribes, offering bribes by units, accepting bribes from non-state functionaries, and offering bribes to non-state functionaries.
The bribery occurred during Li Tie's tenure as the coach of the national football team, and the bribery of non-state functionaries occurred during his tenure as the coach of the club. Bribery, bribery of non-state functionaries, and bribery of units will inevitably involve more people and clubs.
Chen Xuyuan and Yu Hongchen are both charged with one crime, accepting bribes. The last time there was an anti-corruption campaign in football, there were two crimes the most, such as Nan Yong and Xie Yalong, who were guilty of accepting bribes and dereliction of duty. Therefore, Li Tie also set a record.