The details of Zhang Zhigang's illegal and criminal activities, one of the main criminals in the "Zhang Brothers" black-related case in Yingshang County, Anhui Province, were revealed through a verdict from his wife.
The Paper noted that the China Judgment Documents Network recently issued the "First Instance Criminal Judgment on Ma Renli Accepting Bribes, Concealing and Concealing Criminal Gains, and Proceeds of Crime." It is mentioned that when Zhang Zhigang (who has been sentenced) was serving as the director of the Yingshang County Construction Bureau and the deputy director of the Urban and Rural Planning Bureau, he and his wife Ma Renli accepted and demanded two sets of real estate sent by others, with a total value of more than 11 million yuan.
Zhang Zhigang Infographic
The "Zhang Brothers" triad-related case was once listed and supervised by the National Anti-Mafia Office. According to statistics, a total of 28 people in the Yingshang Zhang family hold public office in important departments of cities and counties, illegally controlling real estate, building materials and other industries. Including Zhang Zhigang and his two younger brothers, Zhang Zhiyong and Zhang Zhibin, the "Zhang Brothers" criminal and evil forces have been entrenched in Yingshang County for more than 30 years, with more than 200 cases of violations and crimes involving 34 crimes, of which 40 are suspected of committing crimes abusing public office and 52 are suspected of organized crimes of a criminal syndicate and evil nature.
On November 10, 2020, the court rendered a first-instance judgment in the "Zhang Brothers" case, sentencing the main offender, Zhang Zhigang, to life imprisonment, Zhang Zhiyong to 22 years' imprisonment, and Zhang Zhibin's death to a suspended death and a restriction on commutation. In January 2021, Zhang Zhigang's wife, Ma Renli, was sentenced to six years in prison and fined 520,000 yuan in the first instance.
The three brothers were investigated one after another
Public information shows that Zhang Zhigang, born in May 1968, has a technical secondary school degree and is a member of the Communist Party of China. As early as 1993, at the age of 25, he became the deputy secretary of the party committee and the mayor of Tangdian Township in Yingshang County, and four years later he became the secretary of the township party committee.
In July 2004, Zhang Zhigang entered the field of urban construction, serving as the secretary of the party group and director of the Yingshang County Construction Bureau, and the first deputy secretary of the Tangdian Economic Development Zone.
During his more than 4 years as the "number one" of the county construction bureau, Zhang Zhigang also served as the secretary and director of the party group of the county industrial park management committee, and the secretary of the party committee of Shencheng Town. Until 2008, when his cousin Zhang Zhi'an, known as the "White House Secretary", was investigated, Zhang Zhigang was transferred to the county construction bureau in November of that year.
However, less than 4 years later, Zhang Zhigang "made a comeback" again. In April 2012, he was appointed as a member of the Party Group and Deputy Director of the Urban and Rural Planning Bureau of Yingshang County, and in April 2019, he was appointed Deputy Director of the County Natural Resources and Planning Bureau (Forestry Bureau).
In 2019, Zhang Zhigang's "Yingshang Zhangjia" also ushered in the "anti-black storm". On April 19 of that year, the Office of the Fuyang Municipal Leading Group for Combating Organized Crime and Eliminating Evil Forces issued the "Circular on Reporting and Exposing Violations of Discipline and Crimes by the Gangs of Criminal syndicates and Evil Forces Headed by Zhang Zhiyong and Zhang Zhibin."
The circular said that on April 17, 2019, in accordance with the requirements of the central government's special struggle against organized crime and evil forces, under the direct leadership of provincial and municipal discipline inspection and supervision departments and public security organs, some members of the criminal and evil forces gang headed by Zhang Zhiyong and Zhang Zhibin (nickname: Sanmao) were arrested in Yingshang County. In order to thoroughly find out the facts of the gang's violations of discipline and crimes, to further advance the special struggle against organized crime and evil forces, to purify the social security environment, to safeguard social fairness and justice, and to ensure that the masses of the people live and work in peace and contentment, clues on violations of discipline and violations of the law and committed crimes by the gang's personnel are hereby collected from the broad masses of the people and all sectors of society.
Zhang Zhiyong Infographic
Zhang Zhiyong and Zhang Zhibin mentioned in the circular are Zhang Zhigang's second and third brothers, of which Zhang Zhiyong was a member of the party committee and deputy director of the Yingshang County Transportation Bureau at that time.
More than half a month after the two younger brothers were arrested, on May 5, 2019, Zhang Zhigang reported that they had been investigated. The WeChat public account "Chat time situation" disclosed that on the morning of April 17, 2019, Zhang Zhiyong was taken away directly from the venue by higher-level public security personnel; on May 4 of the same year, Zhang Zhigang was taken away by relevant departments, and the police rushed to his home that night to search.
There are 28 officials in the family
It is worth mentioning that Zhang Zhigang, Zhang Zhiyong, and Zhang Zhibin's father, Zhang Jiawang, was once the deputy secretary of the Yingshang County Party Committee. Behind the investigation of the three brothers, what emerged was a "Yingshang Zhang family" who was famous for its "political family".
According to the report "Yingshang Godfather" Zhang Jiashun" published by Southern Weekend in July 2008, in Anhui Yingshang, in the more than 20 years of Zhang Jiashun's journey from the production captain to the party secretary of Xieqiao Town, to the chairman of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Yingshang County, the Zhang family successively had more than 10 people holding public offices, most of whom were local cadres: the younger brother Zhang Jiawang retired from the post of deputy secretary of the Yingshang County Party Committee, the eldest nephew Zhang Zhigang was then the director of the county construction bureau, the second nephew Zhang Zhiyong was the director of the county party committee office, and the eldest daughter was then the deputy director of the personnel department of the county education commission. The eldest son-in-law was the director of the county local tax bureau at the time; the second daughter was the vice president of the county court; and the second son-in-law was the deputy county magistrate of Linquan County. Among them, the most smooth career, can be called the second generation representative of the Zhang family, and the most Zhang Jiashun is the one who continues the family's prosperity, it is Zhang Jiashun's son and the former secretary of the Yingquan District Committee of Fuyang City, Zhang Zhi'an.
The report at that time also mentioned that in the bribery case of Zhang Huaqi, the former secretary of the Yingshang County CPC Committee, Zhang Zhigang and Zhang Zhiyong brothers were found to have paid bribes to him separately, but the two were not prosecuted for this matter.
The surging news noted that Zhang Zhi'an was known as the "White House Secretary" because he built the Yingquan District Party Committee Office Building, which resembled the White House, during his tenure. In 2008, Zhang Zhi'an was taken away for investigation, and later sentenced to death for accepting bribes and retaliating against framing, with a two-year suspension of execution.
Zhang Zhi'an Data Map
The fall of Zhang Zhi'an made the "aura" of the "Zhang family" once dim. The WeChat public account "Central Political and Legal Commission An Jian" once posted an article introducing that in 2008, affected by the "White House Secretary", Zhang Zhigang and Zhang Zhiyong were transferred from leadership positions, and 4 years later, they were both promoted.
Statistics from the National Anti-Mafia Eradication Office show that a total of 28 people in the "Yingshang Zhangjia" have held public office in important departments of cities and counties, illegally controlling real estate, building materials, and other industries, resulting in the "Zhang Brothers" mafia-type organization headed by Zhang Zhiyong and Zhang Zhibin occupying Yingshang for decades and constantly gaining strength. The superposition of new cases, old cases, and hidden cases, the interweaving of violence, soft violence, and public power, coupled with the Zhang family's almost ubiquitous "relationship network" and "protective umbrella", made the handling of cases once full of resistance.
According to the Anhui Provincial Higher People's Court, in May 2019, the Anhui Provincial Party Committee decided to make the "Zhang Brothers" case, which was key handed over by the 14th Supervision Group of the Central Anti-Organized Crime Eradication And Eliminating Evil Forces and listed for supervision by the National Anti-Organized Crime Office, as the "No. 1 Special Case" of the special struggle against organized crime and evil in Anhui Province.
After more than a year of unremitting struggle, the "Zhang Brothers" criminal and evil forces that have been entrenched in Yingshang County for more than 30 years have been uprooted, and the problem of the corrupt umbrella network behind them has been thoroughly dug up and thoroughly investigated. A total of more than 200 cases of violations and crimes involving 34 crimes were verified, of which 40 were suspected of committing crimes abusing public office (2 at the departmental level and 13 at the department level; 17 were involved in triad corruption and "protective umbrellas"), 52 were suspected of organized crime of a criminal syndicate and evil nature, and nearly 600 million yuan of property involved in the case were recovered.
On November 10, 2020, the court rendered a first-instance judgment on the "Zhang Brothers" case, sentencing the main offender, Zhang Zhigang, to life imprisonment, Zhang Zhiyong to 22 years' imprisonment, Zhang Zhibin's death suspension and restriction on commutation, and all three pleaded guilty and served the law without appeal.
Husband and wife jointly accepted two sets of Beijing real estate
As a member of the "Yingshang Zhang family", Zhang Zhigang's wife Ma Renli was also a public official.
According to the above-mentioned first-instance judgment, Ma Renli, female, born in July 1970, Han ethnicity, university culture, former deputy director of the Yingshang County Data Resources Management Bureau, was decided by the Jixi County Supervision Commission of Xuancheng City in May 2019 to file a case for investigation and take liuzhi measures, because he was suspected of concealing and concealing the proceeds of crime, and was criminally detained by the Yingshang County Public Security Bureau in November of the same year.
Ma Renli Yingshang Government Service Center WeChat public number picture
On January 4, 2021, the Jixi County People's Procuratorate filed a public prosecution against Ma Renli for accepting bribes, concealing, and concealing the proceeds of crime.
The prosecution alleged that from 2005 to 2018, zhang Zhigang (who has been sentenced) received and demanded from his wife Ma Renli, his wife Ma Renli, who was 5,548,433 yuan and a set of real estate with a current price of 5,548,433 yuan and a set of properties with a current price of 5,760,569 yuan, during his tenure as director of the Yingshang County Construction Bureau and the director of the Urban and Rural Planning Bureau, together with his wife Ma Renli, to provide assistance for Zhao in the planning and design of projects such as Tianlihuafu Real Estate and The Phase II and Phase III projects of Wuli Lake Wetland Park.
The Paper combed through the verdict and found that the two properties received by Zhang Zhigang and his wife were located in Beijing.
One of the sets was registered under the name of "Ma Shuzhen", a false identity provided by Ma Renli, and 3 million yuan of the purchase price was transferred to Zhao after Zhang Zhigang asked Jiang Mou, general manager of Xinhai Real Estate in Yingshang County. After the house was delivered, Zhang Zhigang and his wife arranged for Zhao to rent out the house, collect the rent and hand it over to Ma Renli's daughter.
Another set of Ma Renli originally wanted to register the company in the name of her son to buy, because it felt inappropriate, Zhao Mou registered the company in the name of his nephew to buy, and planned to transfer it to Ma Renli's son later.
Prosecutors also alleged that between 2017 and 2019, after ma Renli learned that the provincial party committee inspected Yingshang County and that Zhang Zhiyong and Zhang Zhibin were being investigated, he repeatedly transferred 2.2 million yuan in cash and real estate deeds and other items brought home by her husband Zhang Zhigang to the home of her father Ma Mouxun.
In this regard, Ma Renli confessed that in 2017, after the Anhui Provincial Party Committee inspected Yingshang County, she transferred her family's belongings out of concern. At more than 8:00 a.m. on April 17, 2019, Ma Renli saw the public security police searching Zhang Zhiyong's home at his doorstep, so he called his relative Wu mou and asked his son and Wu to carry the Moutai wine, 200,000 cash, and some tobacco and alcohol, real estate certificates, shopping cards, etc. to the battery tricycle and send them to his father's home.
The Jixi County People's Court held that Ma Renli, together with Zhang Zhigang, took advantage of Zhang Zhigang's position as director of the Yingshang County Construction Bureau and deputy director of the Urban and Rural Planning Bureau to seek benefits for others, jointly accepting and demanding other people's real estate, with a total value of 11,309,002 yuan, a particularly huge amount, and his behavior constituted the crime of accepting bribes; Ma Renli obstructed the order of social management, knowing that it was the proceeds of crime, and transferred them to other places to cover up and conceal them, the amount was 2.2 million yuan, the circumstances were serious, and his behavior constituted the crime of concealing and concealing the crime The Jixi County Procuratorate has all been convicted of the charges, and the court supports them.
At the same time, after arriving at the case, Ma Renli voluntarily and truthfully confessed his crime, admitted the facts of the alleged crime, was willing to accept punishment, and could be leniently dealt with according to law; Ma Renli played a secondary and auxiliary role in the joint crime of accepting bribes, and was an accessory, and should be given a mitigated or mitigated punishment; the real estate involved in the case and the concealment or concealment of criminal gains have been recovered, and may be given a lighter punishment as appropriate.
On January 25, 2021, the court rendered a first-instance judgment: defendant Ma Renli was sentenced to 4 years' imprisonment and fined 500,000 yuan for accepting bribes, and 3 years' imprisonment and a fine of 20,000 yuan for concealing and concealing the proceeds of crime. It was decided to carry out a fixed-term imprisonment of 6 years and a fine of 520,000 yuan. Defendant Ma Renli jointly accepted bribes involved in the case of two sets of real estate and concealed and concealed the amount of 2.2 million yuan of criminal gains, which were confiscated and handed over to the state treasury. The Paper's reporter He Niantai