At 9:00 a.m. on May 19, the bribery case of Hong Jianping, former vice mayor of the Wuhu Municipal People's Government, was heard in open court at the Bengbu Intermediate People's Court, and the Bengbu Municipal People's Procuratorate appointed procurators Qiu Xiaodong and Zhang Qian to appear in court to support the public prosecution. Liu Youyu, deputy director of the First Public Prosecution Division of the Provincial People's Court, and others, and Kang Yan, member of the party group of the Municipal People's Court and deputy procurator general, attended the court for guidance. In order to strengthen warning education, the Bengbu City People's Procuratorate and the Bengbu City Intermediate People's Court jointly invited nearly 90 people, including some people's congress deputies, some county and department-level cadres of various units of the municipal organs directly under the municipal government, and relevant provincial and municipal media, to observe the trial of the case on the spot.
The procuratorate alleged that from 1995 to 2013, defendant Hong Jianping took advantage of his position as deputy director and director of the Wuhu Municipal Planning Commission and vice mayor of the Wuhu Municipal People's Government to provide assistance to Anhui Second Ring Petroleum Group Co., Ltd., Anhui Zhonglian Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., and other units and individuals in matters such as enterprise operation, project establishment, and planning approval. From the Spring Festival of 1997 to the Spring Festival of 2016, Hong Jianping illegally accepted property worth RMB2,049,340,062, US$0.28 million and €0.2 million, directly or through his specific associates, directly or through his specific associates, totaling RMB2,091,527,820,000. According to the first paragraph of article 385, article 386, and subparagraphs (2) and 2 of the first paragraph of article 383 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China, they shall be investigated for criminal responsibility for the crime of accepting bribes.
During the trial, the prosecution and defense presented evidence, cross-examined evidence, and debated around the 12 facts of the defendant Hong Jianping's crime of accepting bribes alleged in the indictment, and Hong Jianping himself confessed and defended the relevant criminal facts in court. No verdict was pronounced in this case.
