Wang Yong, former vice chairman of the Hainan CppcC Committee, accepted a bribe of 90.47 million yuan and was sentenced to life in the first instance

On the morning of October 28, 2021, the Intermediate People's Court of Guilin City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, publicly pronounced a verdict in the first instance on the bribery case of Wang Yong, a former member of the party group and vice chairman of the Hainan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, sentencing defendant Wang Yong to life imprisonment, deprivation of political rights for life, and confiscation of all personal property; and the property and fruits of Wang Yong's crime of accepting bribes were recovered and handed over to the state treasury. Wang Yong said in court that he would obey the court's judgment and would not appeal.

After trial, it was ascertained that from 2000 to 2014, defendant Wang Yong took advantage of his position as secretary of the Chengmai County CPC Committee of Hainan Province, secretary and director of the party leading group and director of the Hainan Provincial Department of Communications, deputy secretary of the Sanya Municipal CPC Committee, vice mayor, acting mayor, mayor of the Sanya Municipal People's Government, etc., to provide assistance to relevant units and individuals in matters such as project approval, change of land nature, project contracting, and job promotion, and illegally accepted property given by relevant personnel, totaling 90.472259 million yuan.

The Guilin Municipal Intermediate People's Court held that defendant Wang Yong's conduct constituted the crime of accepting bribes in accordance with law. Wang Yong accepted a particularly large amount of bribes, and in view of the fact that after he arrived at the case, he voluntarily confessed some of the facts of the crime of accepting bribes that the case-handling organs had not yet grasped, truthfully confessed other facts of the crime of accepting bribes, confessed his guilt and repented of his crimes, actively returned the stolen goods, and all the stolen money and stolen goods had been recovered, and he could be given a lenient punishment in accordance with law. The Tribunal accordingly rendered the above-mentioned judgment. (People's Daily)