The scene of the trial.
Zhuzhou, December 28 (Correspondent Xu Shijun) On December 25, the People's Court of Chaling County, Hunan Province, pronounced a verdict in the first-instance trial of the triad-related case involving defendants Wang Yueming, Yi Huayong, Lei Ronghua and 30 others.
Defendant Wang Yueming was sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment and 12 years' imprisonment, deprivation of political rights for 18 years, deprivation of political rights for three years, and confiscation of all personal property; defendants Yi Huayong and Lei Ronghua were sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment and 12 years' imprisonment, respectively, for leading mafia-type organizations, extortion, and picking quarrels and provoking troubles, respectively, and deprived of their political rights for three years, and had all their personal property confiscated. Yan Jiarong and 17 other defendants were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from five years to one year and six months for the crimes of participating in mafia-type organizations and picking quarrels and provoking troubles; Cai Moufeng, He Mou, and 10 other members outside the mafia-type organizations were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from three years and six months to ten months for crimes such as extortion and picking quarrels and provoking trouble.
In addition, the illegal and criminal gains of the mafia-type organizations shall be recovered and confiscated in accordance with law.
The court found that in the 1990s, defendant Wang Yueming was bullied and humiliated many times, and he had the idea of developing criminal and evil forces. In 2000, Wang Yueming began to dabble in the real estate industry. In order to expand its influence and seek benefits, it uses economic interests as bait to gradually co-opt and absorb Yi Huayong, Lei Ronghua and other mixed social personnel, and adopt illegal means to provide illegal protection for them in the real estate industry. In February 2008, led by Wang Yueming, a mafia-type organization with relatively fixed members and clear hierarchies was formed. In the process of development, the organization obtains huge economic benefits through organized illegal and criminal activities or other means, acts for non-evil, oppresses and mutilates the masses, forms a major impact on the real estate industry and the local area in Youxian County, and seriously undermines the order of local economic and social life.
Members of this mafia-type organization carried out 35 cases of organization illegal crimes and non-organizational crimes in the area of Zhuzhou City, such as extortion, picking quarrels and provoking trouble, opening casinos, harboring, harboring, illegal possession of firearms, illegal detention, and intentional damage to public and private property, injuring more than 20 people and extorting more than 30 million yuan.
The case was supervised by the Hunan Provincial Anti-Organized Crime Office, the Hunan Provincial People's Procuratorate, and the Hunan Provincial Public Security Department. After 5 days of trial, the court fully protected the procedural rights of the defendants and their defenders in accordance with the law. All 30 defendants pleaded guilty and accepted punishment. Based on the facts, nature, circumstances, and degree of harm to society of each defendant's respective crimes, the court made the above judgment in accordance with law.