The amount involved in the case exceeded 100 million! Li Tie, the former head coach of the national football team, was charged with five crimes and pleaded guilty and repented in court
Beijing News According to the Xianning Intermediate People's Court, on March 28, 2024, the Intermediate People's Court of Xianning City, Hubei Province, held a public trial of the first instance of the case of Li Tie, the former head coach of the Chinese national men's football team, for accepting bribes, offering bribes from units, accepting bribes from non-state workers, and offering bribes to non-state workers.
The Xianning Municipal People's Procuratorate alleges: From 2019 to 2021, the defendant Li Tie took advantage of his position as the head coach of the Chinese National Men's Football Selection Team (hereinafter referred to as the Men's National Football Team) and the head coach of the Chinese National Men's Football Team (hereinafter referred to as the Men's National Football Team) or the facilitation of the formation of his authority and status to provide assistance to relevant units and individuals in matters such as the selection of players for the national team, winning competitions, and signing clubs, and illegally accepted a total of more than 50.89 million yuan from others. In 2019, Li Tiewei was elected as the head coach of the men's national football team, asked others to help, and later gave others RMB 1 million in 2020. In 2019, during his tenure at Wuhan Zall Professional Football Club Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Zall Club), Li Tie agreed with the person in charge of the club to ask others to provide help, and the club gave others RMB 2 million in order to seek benefits such as being elected as the head coach of the men's national football selection team and improving the influence of Zall Club. From 2017 to 2019, Li Tie took advantage of his position as the general manager and head coach of Zall Club to provide assistance to Hebei Huaxia Happiness Football Club Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Huaxia Club) in matters such as player transfer and winning games, and successively received a total of RMB 26.75 million from Huaxia Club. From 2015 to 2019, during Li Tie's tenure at Huaxia Club and Zall Club, in order to win the game or obtain favorable results, he agreed with the person in charge of the club to ask other football clubs to cooperate or play negatively in the game, and Huaxia Club and Zall Club gave a total of more than 39.05 million yuan to the relevant personnel. The procuratorate requested that Li Tie be investigated for criminal responsibility for the crimes of accepting bribes, offering bribes, offering bribes to units, accepting bribes from non-state functionaries, and offering bribes to non-state functionaries.
During the trial, the procuratorate presented relevant evidence, the defendant Li Tie and his defender conducted cross-examination, the prosecution and defense fully expressed their opinions under the auspices of the court, and Li Tie made a final statement and pleaded guilty and repented in court.
At the end of the trial, the court announced an adjournment and announced the verdict at a later date.
More than 40 people, including deputies to the National People's Congress, members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, journalists, and people from all walks of life, attended the trial.
The bribery case of Huang Song, former director of the Competition Department of the Chinese Football Association, the embezzlement, bribery, bribery, and bribery case of Fu Xiang, former executive vice president of the Wuhan Football Association, and the embezzlement, bribery, and bribery case of Gu Jianming, former chairman of the Chengdu Football Association, were tried in open court by the People's Court of Songzi City, Jiayu County, and Tongcheng County in Hubei Province on the same day.
Edited by Mao Tianyu