Chapter 24 Chapter 20 Power is Money

The power that Li Zhen obtained is mainly used to do two things: grab more power and grab more money. Li Chen has a strong desire to chase money. From his appointment as Secretary of the General Office of the Provincial Party Committee to being shuanggui, he took advantage of his position in seven years to collect more than 6.8 million yuan in bribes, 170,000 U.S. dollars and 10,000 Hong Kong dollars. Embezzled 20 million yuan of public funds, illegally embezzled 464,747,500 Irish pounds of 50% equity of Niwalis Company (state-owned) in partnership with others, and illegally embezzled 1.125 million US dollars of equity in Zhongxing Electronics Co., Ltd. (state-owned) in Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province.The amount is huge, ranking first in the amount of corruption and bribery crimes committed by party and government officials in Hebei since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

In June 1992, Li Zhen met the Deputy Director of the Provincial Department of Finance at the Hebei office in Beijing. He told Li Zhen that he had won a foreign exchange quota of 5 million US dollars, and wanted to let the provincial leaders know through Li Zhen and show his political achievements. A foreign exchange quota of 5 million US dollars?Li Zhen drew a question mark in his mind.He felt a rare opportunity approaching him.He thought of Li Guoting, the director of the Zhangjiakou Cigarette Factory, and Zhang Tiemeng, the director of the Hebei Office of the Eastern Leasing Company (referred to as the East Leasing Hebei Office).A complete and bold plan is formed in the mind.

Li Zhen immediately asked Li Guoting and Ji Ling to write a report and apply for the foreign exchange quota of 5 million US dollars.After the report was approved by the leader, it was transferred to the Finance Department. The deputy director immediately settled the foreign exchange quota of 1 million US dollars for the tobacco factory. When he was about to notify the tobacco factory, Li Zhen brought Zhang Tiemeng to see him.This is a very coincidental arrangement. If the Ministry of Finance notifies the cigarette factory, their "black box operation" will not be easy to carry out.Li Zhen introduced to the deputy director that the East Rent and Hebei Office is responsible for importing raw materials for the tobacco factory, and it is enough to give Zhang Tiemeng the foreign exchange quota.It is impossible to do this according to the principle. Whoever gets the quota will be given to the person. As for who should be the agent, the tobacco factory should have the final say, but Li Zhen's power makes all this logical.With the foreign exchange quota, the remaining problem is to solve the problem of remittance funds.The choice of Li Zhen and Zhang Tiemeng was to write a report to the provincial government in the name of the East Rent and Hebei Office and apply for a loan of 60 million yuan.At this time, Li Zhen had already taken over Wu Qingwu's position and directly sent the report to the provincial leaders for approval.In just over a month, Dongzuo transferred 5 million US dollars in foreign exchange at the price of 1-5.514 (exchange rate: 1 US dollar to RMB 5,514) and 1:6.465.At that time, the market adjustment price was 1 US dollar to 10 yuan.In addition to repaying the 29.925 million yuan loan to the Provincial Department of Finance, Li Zhen and others made a net difference of 20 million yuan.It was the first time he saw that he had earned so much money, and he was so overjoyed that he couldn't sleep for three days.

At this time, Li Zhen approached Wu Qingwu to discuss the matter of dividing the money. Li Zhen, who made a "windfall", did this because Wu Qingwu gave him something too precious-power.Li Zhen later said: "Power is money. With 10 million yuan, I will not change the position of secretary, because this position is a steady source of money. During the holidays, people line up to see me, and they only give it to my son. The New Year's money, ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of yuan every year." However, Li Chen did not regard 20 million as a favor to repay Wu Qingwu, he knew that Wu Qingwu was indispensable in the pattern of grabbing money. That kind of people.

In May and June of 1993, Li Zhen, Zhang Tiemeng, and Wu Qingwu discussed several times how to dispose of the 20 million yuan benefits obtained from the 5 million U.S. dollars in foreign exchange. Both Zhang Tiemeng and Wu Qingwu agreed to the proposal.One day in July and August of that year, Li Zhen conspired with Wu Qingwu and Zhang Tiemeng at the Xindadu Hotel in Beijing to discuss how to pay the money to Li Zhen and Wu Qingwu. Just when they were plotting to share the ill-gotten gains, an unexpected thing happened. In October 1993, a 50 million yuan loan case involved Li Zhen and Wu Qingwu: Zhang Tiemeng loaned 50 million yuan from the bank, and the money stayed in his own company for a while, and a considerable part of it was transferred to Wu Qingwu With Li Zhen in hand.The procuratorial organ found that Zhang had the possibility of escaping, so he filed a case for arrest.Because Cheng Weigao's secretary Li Zhen was involved, the case was reported to the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, and Liu Shan, who was the Secretary of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection at the time, demanded to investigate to the bottom, and a very complicated wrestling ensued.The procuratorate received three consecutive phone calls from the Secretary of the Provincial Political and Legal Committee at the time, requesting his release.The procuratorate couldn't stand it, so it had to let him go. On October 11, Zhang Tiemeng's misappropriation of public funds case was dismissed.

After a false alarm, the three finally decided on a plan to divide the money: to transfer the RMB 10 million loan from Hainan Shitong Real Estate Development Company to Wu Qingwu, and transfer the RMB 10 million borrowed by Wu Qingwu, totaling RMB 20 million. If it is not returned to the East Leasing and Hebei Office, Zhang Tiemeng will be responsible for balancing the accounts to replace the 20 million yuan in foreign exchange profits of 5 million US dollars. On December 20 and 23, Gao, manager of Hainan Shitong Real Estate Development Company, remitted a loan of RMB 10 million and an interest of RMB 1.8 million to the bank account designated by Wu Qingwu.According to Zhang Tiemeng's request, Wu Qingwu paid RMB 3.08 million in interest to the East Rent and Hebei Office. In 1994, the East Lease and Hebei Office was abolished, and the creditor's rights, debts and subordinate enterprises of the East Lease and Hebei Office were placed under the Hebei Provincial Enterprise Investment Company. Zhang Tiemeng served as the legal representative. Zhang Tiemeng hid the accounts of the East Lease and Hebei Office and concealed Wu Qingwu's loan of RMB 2,000 million dollar facts.Afterwards, Zhang Tiemeng told Li Zhen that the accounts of the East Rent and Hebei Office had been settled and the loan contract had been destroyed.

Wu Qingwu used the 20 million yuan for personal investment and business, and distributed 150,000 U.S. dollars, 100,000 yuan, and a commercial house located in the dormitory building of the Beijing Low-Voltage Electrical Appliance Factory to Li Chen (with a construction area of ​​83.3 square meters and a value of 516,710 yuan). set. Li Zhen, Wu Qingwu, and Zhang Tiemeng jointly embezzled 464,747,500 Irish pounds and 125,000 U.S. dollars of shares in Hebei Provincial Enterprise Investment Company in the process of embezzling huge amounts of public funds. In December 1992, with the approval of the Hebei Provincial Government, the Hebei Provincial East Leasing and Hebei Office (in 1994, it was placed under the Hebei Provincial Enterprise Investment Company, a national enterprise) invested 2.5 million U.S. dollars in the form of Qinhuangdao Huamei Magnetic Electric Co., Ltd. (without capital injection) Namely, with its 929,495 Irish pounds, it purchased the Irish Atlantic Magnetic Materials Company and changed its name to Nivalis Company, and the rest was used as working capital to invest in the enterprise.The company has 1,000,000 nominal shares, and two shares are issued, each of which costs Irish pounds (Irish pounds actually represent 50% of the shares), with two shareholders each holding one share.After research, it was decided that Zhang Tiemeng, the manager of Hebei Zhongxing Technology Development Corporation, and Wu, the legal representative of Qinhuangdao Huamei Magnetic Electric Co., Ltd., held shares on behalf of the country in their own names and acted as the two shareholders.

On August 31, 1992, with the approval of the Qinhuangdao Municipal People's Government, Hebei Zhongxing Technology Development Corporation established a branch in Qinhuangdao—Hebei Zhongxing Bohai Industrial Development Corporation (an enterprise owned by the whole people).In order to take advantage of preferential policies such as the import and export rights granted by the state to Sino-foreign joint ventures, on November 16 of the same year, Zhang Tiemeng, in the name of the Hebei Office of the American Datang Industrial Corporation (the American Datang Industrial Corporation did not contribute capital) and Zhongxing Bohai Industrial Development Co., Ltd. The company is a joint venture to establish Qinhuangdao Zhongxing Electronics Co., Ltd., and Dongzuhebei Office invested 2.5 million U.S. dollars as the registered capital of both parties.Among them, Zhongxing Bohai Industrial Development Corporation holds 55% of the shares, with a share value of 1.375 million US dollars, and 45% of the shares of the American Datang Industrial Company, with a share value of 1.125 million US dollars (Datang Industrial Company did not actually contribute, and all of them were invested by Hebei Provincial Enterprise Investment Corporation. capital contribution).At that time, Zhang Tiemeng, the legal representative of the Hebei Provincial Enterprise Investment Company, served as the chairman and general manager of ZTE Electronics Co., Ltd. in the dual capacity of the director of the Hebei Office of the American Datang Industrial Corporation and the general manager of ZTE Technology Corporation.

In October 1993, after Zhang Tiemeng, who was taken compulsory measures for suspected embezzlement of public funds, was released under the activities of Li Zhen, Li Zhen, Wu Qingwu and Zhang Tiemeng jointly negotiated to occupy the shares of Nivalis Company and ZTE Electronics Co., Ltd. Each person owns 25%, and transfers to Wu Qingwu's Hong Kong Lilong Company, and Wu Qingwu jointly holds these shares on behalf of the three. In January 1994, Wu Qingwu and Zhang Tiemeng flew to Ireland on a special trip and went through the formalities of transferring shares in an accounting firm in Dublin. to Wu Qingwu, and went to the Irish Companies Registration Office to handle the change of shareholder registration, and then announced to all employees of the company that Wu Qingwu was the chairman of the company.

On March 2, 1994, under Zhang Tiemeng's planning, Zhang Tiemeng represented Party A - Hebei Zhongxing Bohai Industrial Development Corporation, Party B - American Datang Industrial Corporation, Wu Qingwu represented Party C - Hong Kong Lilong Company, The three parties signed a share transfer agreement.The main content is to transfer all the shares of Qinhuangdao Zhongxing Electronics Co., Ltd. and all the rights and interests of the shareholders of both parties to Party C, Hong Kong Lilong Company, for free. veto.In order to achieve the evil purpose of privately dividing state-owned assets, Zhang Tiemeng later transferred all the nominal 45% shares of Datang Industrial Corporation, one of the shareholders of Qinhuangdao Zhongxing Electronics Co., Ltd., or US$1.125 million, to Hong Kong Lilong Company.Under the instruction of Zhang Tiemeng, the resolution of the second board meeting of the third session of ZTE Electronics Co., Ltd. was forged, and the share transfer agreement, articles of association, and contract were amended, and Wu Qingwu was appointed as the chairman and Zhang Tieqiao was appointed as the vice chairman. On December 6, 1994, this equity transfer agreement was approved by the Management Committee of Qinhuangdao Development Zone, and submitted to the city's Labor Bureau, Finance Bureau, Taxation Bureau, Customs and other departments for the record, and the Qinhuangdao Industry and Commerce Bureau handled the corporate shareholder Change registration and related procedures.

So far, Li Zhen, Zhang Tiemeng, and Wu Qingwu took advantage of Zhang Tiemeng's position to transfer the 50% equity of Nivalis Company purchased by Hebei Provincial Enterprise Investment Company in Ireland, with a share value of 46.47475 Irish pounds, to ZTE Electronics in Qinhuangdao City. The 45% equity of the limited company, with a share value of 1.125 million US dollars, was illegally taken as its own.After having the equity, Wu Qingwu and Li Zhen asked Zhang Tiemeng for dividends many times.Faced with these two greedy accomplices, Zhang Tiemeng had nothing to do. In May 1995, Zhang Tiemeng remitted US$300,000 from Nivalis Company to Lilong Co., Ltd. registered in Hong Kong by Wu Qingwu in the name of payment for goods.After receiving the money, Wu Qingwu remitted US$100,000 of it to his wife Yang's bank account in Singapore according to Li Zhen's request, and Wu Qingwu took the remaining US$200,000 for himself. In the following time, Li Zhen, Wu Qingwu, and Zhang Tiemeng used each other and supported each other. At the end of 1997, Shijiazhuang State Taxation Bureau planned to build an office building.In order to get this project, the person in charge of a certain construction company in Nanjing approached Wu Qingwu and asked Wu Qingwu to ask Li Zhen to intervene in this matter.Wu Qingwu knew that if this matter could be done, it would be a good thing for Li Zhen and a certain construction company in Nanjing, so he readily agreed. In April 1998, Wu Qingwu approached Li Zhen. Li Zhen called the main person in charge of the Shijiazhuang State Taxation Bureau and directly asked the bureau to hand over the project to a construction company in Nanjing. He said bluntly: "Yes. Wu Qingwu came to me. Wu Qingwu has a good relationship with this construction company. Asking each other should be helpful. You know that Wu Qingwu and I have a good relationship, so I asked about this matter. What's the next step, Wu Qing Wu will contact you directly.” Due to Li Zhen’s intervention, the Shijiazhuang State Taxation Bureau reworked the bidding plan, and finally tried every means to hand over the project to a construction company in Nanjing with all-hands.One month after the company won the bid, Wu Qingwu found the person in charge of the company according to Li Zhen's instructions, asked for 400,000 yuan, converted it into 50,000 U.S. dollars, and handed it to Li Zhen.Li Zhen also continued to become "professional" when using his authority to undertake projects.In the past, after introducing the project, he would say "give it whatever you want" and "give it at will". When it came time to introduce the hard purpose of Beidaihe Training Center, Li Zhen asked for six points.Li Zhen also said to the responsible person in a very "righteous" way: "I personally only need half of these six points, and the rest will be given to you." The estimated cost of this project is 25 million yuan, and the 6% commission should be 1.5 million yuan.Once the door of desire is opened, the appetite will grow bigger and bigger. In 1996, Li Zhen went to the Provincial State Taxation Bureau as the deputy director. As the real power in his hands grew, so did his appetite.According to Li Ying, the investigator of the case, during his four years at the State Taxation Bureau of Hebei Province, Li Zhen participated in the training center projects of the State Taxation Bureau in nine cities in Hebei Province, extorting and accepting more than 4 million yuan in bribes.Among the major projects that Li Zhen has handled, he never returned empty-handed. When Li Zhen was the director of the Provincial State Taxation Bureau, the office building of the Langfang State Taxation Bureau was originally intended to be a training center. Like other training projects, Li Zhen planned to contract this project to a project through his secret operation. What is even more surprising is that, before the contract was signed, Li Zhen was eager to transfer money overseas, so he competed with the contractor and asked for 500,000 yuan in cash in advance.Li Zhen got the benefit fee, but after all, the project has not started and the contract has not been signed.But Li Zhen has his own means. In order to get the project, he called the director and deputy director of the Langfang National Taxation Bureau who undertook the project to the office of the provincial bureau, saying that this project will not be done for you, and you will go to the specific arrangements, but Who will get the project is up to me, I don't worry about you. Afterwards, Li Zhen handed over the Chengde Training Center Project and the Hengshui Training Center Project to Wang to find a construction unit to undertake the construction, and received a total of 3.05 million yuan in kickbacks from them. In just a few years, the total amount of Li Zhen's crimes reached more than 39 million yuan, of which his personal actual income was as high as 10.816 million yuan.Li Zhen himself is quite emotional about this!He once told the prosecutor in the detention center: "If the investigation against me happened five years ago, it would never have been so serious; but if it happened five years later, it would definitely be more serious than this." Li Zhen's trading of power and money has reached the point of being blatant.Lu Ying, the general manager of Hebei Daye Group, explained: "Li Zhen often scolds a person to me, saying that he is not mean enough. He committed a capital crime. I rescued him. I have to explain what expenses and expenses I have. After this clear hint, Lu Ying naturally got the idea. During the Spring Festival of 1996, Lu Ying called Li Zhen and said: "I heard that you are going home for the New Year. I have prepared something for you. Please Come to the door. I'll be there in a while by car." Putting down the phone, Li Zhen went to the door and saw that Lu Ying had arrived.Lu Ying got out of the car, stuffed Li Zhen with a plastic bag, and drove away.Li Zhen went back to the house and saw that the plastic bag contained 100,000 yuan in cash!He immediately hung up the phone to Lu Ying: "What are you doing? I don't need money. Come here and take it away!" Lu Ying said on the phone: "I don't know what to buy for you, this is a gift Children's New Year's money. I have no other intentions." At the end of 1994, Li Zhen also asked his good friend Li Guoting, the director of the Zhangjiakou Cigarette Factory known as the "Northern Tobacco King", if my wife has gone to sea, can I support her with a project.Li Guoting did not give Li's wife Yang a project, but gave 50,000 US dollars.Afterwards, Li Zhen sold cigarettes through Li Guoting's approval, earning more than 3.6 million yuan in favors.With the excuse of his wife studying abroad, Li Zhen successively received 50,000 US dollars from Wu Qingwu, the former deputy director of the Hebei Provincial General Office. Wu Qingwu explained that when Li Zhen came to me, he said, my wife is going to Singapore for immigration soon, and I want to borrow money from a few people, and you are one of them.I will borrow another 50,000 US dollars from Li Guoting, the director of the Zhangjiakou Cigarette Factory, and another 50,000 US dollars from Zhang Tiemeng. Each of you will lend me 50,000 US dollars, so I have 150,000 US dollars, which should be enough.It's called borrowing money, but it's actually asking for bribes. In 1997, Li Zhen talked to the directors of various cities at the Beidaihe Training Center. When he talked to Director Xing of the Handan State Taxation Bureau, he said: "Look at how kind I am to you. I am very difficult. I didn't get much money. Instead, I sent you A lot of bonuses." Director Xing began to untie his pants, and gave Li Zhen 10,000 yuan of his 16,000 yuan bonus from the anti-theft pants.He felt that his relationship with Director Li was getting closer all of a sudden. One afternoon before the Spring Festival in 1997, Li Zhen and his ex-wife Yang took a fancy to a high-end massage chair worth 50,000 yuan and 39,800 yuan after a discount at Beijing Scitech Mall. I really called Sun Changchun, the deputy magistrate of Laishui County, and the tax bureau chief of a certain county in Jidong. They happened to be in Beijing, so I asked if they had any money?Ask them to help you buy something, but the credit card you carry is not enough, so give them the money later.An hour later, the tax bureau chief of a certain county in eastern Jidong arrived. He was dumbfounded when he saw that the discounted price was 39,800 yuan. When Sun Changchun arrived, he saw that the discounted price was 39,800 yuan, and he bought the chair without batting an eyelid.Li Zhen said: "I will return the money I spent to you later." Sun said: "What do you pay back? You don't need to pay back. I will buy it for you." After speaking, he pulled the chair away and put it in his own garage slip.After two days, it was sent to Li Chen's house.Not long after that, Sun Changchun was promoted to executive deputy county magistrate, while the head of a county tax bureau in eastern Jidong was dismissed from his post on the grounds that he was too old. In terms of work style, Li Zhen is keen on welcoming guests and giving gifts. At the end of 1999 alone, in order to treat guests and give gifts, he bought three tons of Wuliangye wine at a time, worth 1.17 million yuan. In Li Zhen's home, it was once filled with all kinds of valuable items.Most of these valuable items were sent by those who needed Li Zhen's help.Later, Li Zhen had reached the point where he couldn't stop.Li Chen himself said that in the end I realized that money is just a symbol to me, and I can't spend it or use it, but I just can't stop the car, the desire is too strong.According to reports, more than 300 gifts worth more than one million yuan were confiscated from his home alone.Most of the time, he kept millions of dollars in his bedroom. He was frightened, afraid that the nanny would see it, his colleagues would accidentally see it when he came, and he was afraid of being stolen by a thief. His life was not stable. Li Zhen later admitted: "I really felt that the pursuit of money harmed me. I did not enjoy the happiness brought by wealth. In the end, this desire and the wealth I pursued finally harmed myself."