Chapter 11 "Hometown of Integrity" has "No. 1 Corruption"

On October 23, 2008, Jiang Renjie, the former deputy mayor of Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, was sentenced to death by the Nanjing Intermediate People's Court for accepting bribes.The court found that from 2001 to 2004, Jiang Renjie took advantage of his position to accept bribes totaling RMB 108.67 million, HKD 50,000, and USD 4,000.Judging from the amount of bribes accepted by corrupt officials that have been ascertained and publicly exposed by the media, Jiang Renjie is not only a "leader among men", but also a "leader among corrupt people."Hundreds of millions of bribes made him sit on the top spot of "the most corrupt" since the founding of New China, and he was nailed to the pillar of shame in history.

As early as four years ago, on August 7, 2004, Jiang Renjie, then the deputy mayor of Suzhou, was suddenly "shuanggui".When the news officially came out in October, public opinion was in an uproar. People were discussing and focusing on the Suzhou political arena. The reason for this was not that Jiang Renjie was a big official and greedy for money.Although Suzhou has a developed economy, it even surpasses many sub-provincial cities.However, Suzhou did not have the achievements it has today when the sub-provincial cities were designated in the early years, and the country has not increased the number of sub-provinces since then.In other words, Suzhou, with its impressive economic achievements, is still just a prefecture-level city, and Jiang Renjie is nothing more than a deputy department-level official.As for the amount of Jiang Renjie's bribery, since the case had just been investigated at that time, it was naturally impossible to know.Take corrupt officials in other prefecture-level cities as an example, ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions of yuan, and as many as tens of millions of yuan. However, with the increasing economic development and the increasing number of serious cases, people are not surprised.

What people find most surprising is that there are even corrupt officials in Suzhou! Just a few years before the incident, colleagues from discipline inspection and supervision agencies and procuratorial agencies from all over the country gathered in Suzhou one after another to investigate and learn from the local advanced experience in building a clean government.So, what exactly is the Suzhou experience?According to their own summary, coupled with media reports, it is called "Hundred Officials Communicate Integrity". According to reports, Suzhou is a unique school for cadres. There is a unique method of educating cadres here, and there is a group and long-term atmosphere of honesty and honesty. Suzhou cadres have created a miracle of clean government.

Many media have noticed the history and culture of Suzhou when interpreting the phenomenon of "Hundreds of officials working together to be honest".There have been many famous and upright officials in Suzhou history, such as Bai Juyi, Fan Zhongyan, Kuang Zhong, etc. They are role models for future generations of officials.The ancient sages believed that all corruption, bribery, corruption and degeneration stem from dissatisfaction.It is the pride of ancient Suzhou politics to let officials love their hometown, be content, keep themselves clean, and warn them at any time to prevent the passing of time.

Suzhou politicians believe that the root cause of the phenomenon of "a hundred officials working together to be honest" in Suzhou lies in the establishment of a new clean government system, which focuses on three main points: one is to adjust the power structure, reduce individual power, and restrict and decompose power The second is to introduce a market mechanism to allow the process of using power to be rational and orderly in an open and transparent manner; In 2003, the year before the incident, a central authoritative media commented on Suzhou’s clean government experience: “For more than 20 years, Suzhou has seen a gratifying phenomenon of ‘all officials are clean’.”——This “ "Hundreds of officials and integrity" refers to: For more than 20 years, none of the secretaries of the Suzhou Municipal (prefectural) Party Committee has been punished for corruption; None of the chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, nor the nearly 100 "top leaders" of the four subordinate teams in the county-level cities were punished by party discipline or state law during their tenure.

Who would have thought that in October 2004, the myth of "Hundred officials working together to be honest" that had been propagandized for several years would be self-defeating.Since then, no media has dared to mention the so-called "Hundreds of Officials Communicate Integrity" again! "Jiang Renjie made Suzhou miserable!" A Suzhou official lamented, "Suzhou's image has always been good, and various anti-corruption systems are relatively sound. I didn't expect this kind of thing to happen, and there are such big loopholes." "If it doesn't come out, it's gone, and as soon as it comes out, there will be a big one!" Walking in the streets of Suzhou, sitting in a taxi or in a teahouse, almost every local person knows that a deputy mayor has "accident".

The reality is ruthless. Jiang Renjie's fall from the horse announced the end of Suzhou's myth of "a hundred officials are honest". What's more serious is that, as a professor of the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China questioned: "A case as big as Jiang Renjie cannot be committed alone." Many officials in the department have been "talked to" or replaced. "Urban construction and transportation are like two black holes, and many officials have been sucked in." A retired secretary-general of the National People's Congress in Suzhou lamented.

On January 7, 2005, Jiang Renjie was deposed as a National People's Congress representative at the 14th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th Suzhou Municipal People's Congress and removed from his position as the deputy mayor of Suzhou City due to serious violations of discipline and law. Being dismissed by the National People's Congress means that the discipline inspection agency and the procuratorial agency have initially verified the case.This is a legal procedure and cannot be ambiguous.Since then, various rumors about the astronomical amount of bribes in the Jiang Renjie case have spread frequently.It is said that when the procuratorate searched his home, the cash that was confiscated was too late to count, so they weighed it with a scale, saying it weighed 23 kilograms.Millions of dollars, even hidden under the floor.Media reports on the amount involved in Jiang Renjie's case ranged from 90 million yuan to 140 million yuan. There are also various versions of the origin of this astonishing figure.

It now appears that these rumors and reports are not groundless, and are almost the same as the facts. In March 2006, designated by the Jiangsu Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Nanjing Municipal People's Procuratorate filed a public prosecution against Jiang Renjie. From the beginning of June to September 19, 2006, the Nanjing Intermediate People's Court held four court hearings on Jiang Renjie's bribery case. Zhenze in Wujiang City, Suzhou is a big town.It is located in the southwest of Wujiang City, Jiangsu Province, adjacent to Zhejiang Province. It was called "Wutou Yuewei" in ancient times and is the "West Gate" of Wujiang City. In December 1948, Jiang Renjie, whose ancestral home was in Daye, Hubei, was born in a worker's family in Zhenze Town.

In 1964, Jiang Renjie, who was less than 16 years old, graduated from high school. Together with other classmates, he went to the Red Heart Brigade of Miaogang Commune near Zhenze to join the team to work as a farmer. Five years later, Jiang Renjie was assigned to work as a teacher at Hongwei Middle School of Miaogang Commune where he joined the queue. Joined the party in June 1974.His first leadership position was as a publicity member of the commune party committee (enjoying deputy township treatment). After working at the commune cultural station, the god of luck descended on Jiang Renjie.Fei Xiaotong, a famous sociologist and economist, came to his hometown Wujiang for research, and went to Zhenze Town twice to investigate the construction of small towns, all accompanied by Jiang Renjie.Jiang Renjie was clever, and won the appreciation of Fei Lao, who later served as the vice chairman of the National People's Congress and the vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

At the end of the 1970s, the national college entrance examination resumed, and Jiang Renjie failed to enter the university palace as he wished.In the early 1980s, older but promising government cadres who missed the college entrance examination had the opportunity to be recommended to study in universities and get a junior college diploma. In 1982, under the recommendation of Fei Xiaotong, Jiang Renjie passed a certain range of examinations and was organized and sent to Nanjing University to study in the economic management cadre training class.When Jiang was assigned after graduation, Mr. Fei said that if there was no suitable position for Jiang Renjie, he would keep Jiang Renjie to work by his side.Of course, the leaders of Wujiang County did not dare to treat Jiang Renjie badly. In 1984, Jiang Renjie was appointed as the factory director of the Wujiang branch of Shanghai No. 3 Sewing Machine Factory.As for Jiang Renjie, he really lived up to Fei Lao's expectations, and in less than a year, the factory became the "leader" of Wujiang's electromechanical enterprises. In April 1987, Jiang Renjie, who had a lot of achievements in the industrial line, was transferred to the Wujiang County Government as the deputy county magistrate, but he was in charge of agriculture.According to the memories of local officials, Jiang Renjie gave people the impression that he was "very smart and capable" and "know how to play politics".For example, the "top leader" and "second leader" at that time were at odds, but both of them had great trust in Jiang. In 1990, Jiang Renjie was transferred to the Suzhou Municipal Foreign Economic and Economic Commission as the deputy director and member of the party group. In 1992, he was promoted to Director of the Foreign Affairs Office of Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province and Secretary of the Party Leadership Group. In 1998, he served as the Deputy Secretary-General of the Suzhou Municipal Government of Jiangsu Province, the Director of the Municipal Foreign Economic and Economic Commission, and the Chairman of Suzhou Import and Export (Group) Co., Ltd., etc. In May 2001, Jiang Renjie was appointed as the deputy mayor of Suzhou, in charge of 13 major categories of work including urban planning, construction, transportation, and municipal utilities. chairman. From a cadre of a commune cultural station to today's deputy mayor of Suzhou, and in charge of urban construction and real estate, the most lucrative industry, from a secular point of view, this should be the most successful and promising job for a man. reflect.Indeed, he holds in his hand the most glittering power that can "generate money" and make real estate tycoons surrender the most. However, power is undoubtedly a "double-edged sword".This "sword" can embody the value of life and serve the people, but if it is not used properly, it will suffer from it, be injured by the blade, or even die under the sword. Jiang Renjie was sentenced to death, and his fate was buried under the sword of power that he had pursued all his life, and that he once held firmly and took pride in. In 2001, the few years after Jiang Renjie became the deputy mayor in charge of urban construction of the Suzhou Municipal Government, it was the period of rapid development of fixed asset investment and urban construction in Suzhou.Statistics show that in 2002, Suzhou's investment in fixed assets exceeded 100 billion, ranking among the top in the country; in 2003, Suzhou's investment in fixed assets reached 140.9 billion, second only to Beijing and Shanghai.Among them, the investment in urban construction has greatly exceeded the figure of 10 billion yuan since 2002.In 2003, the gross national product of Suzhou was 280.2 billion.Expressway and urban construction are the main part of fixed asset investment. Since 1998, the expressways that have been built or are under construction in Suzhou include Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway, Sujiahang Expressway, Yanjiang Expressway, Ring Expressway, etc. In 2003, Suzhou's annual expressway investment plan was 3.125 billion yuan.Jiang Renjie served as the commander of the Suzhou Expressway Construction Headquarters. Due to the rapid development of Suzhou's urban construction, almost every important project or plan is somewhat related to Jiang Renjie, and ultimately needs to be finalized or implemented by him.Therefore, the real estate business focused on him with money, and finally knocked him down. The court found that from 2001 to 2004, Jiang Renjie took advantage of his position to successively accept Gu Mou, general manager of Suzhou Dingli Property Co., Ltd., Chen Mou, general manager of Suzhou Huayebaifu Real Estate Co., Ltd., and Suzhou Yitong Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. Li Mou, general manager of the company, Lin Moumou, deputy general manager of Suzhou Tianxi Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., Ling Moumou, general manager of Suzhou Youhe Technology Development Co., Ltd. USD 4000.Jiang Renjie, who accepted more than 100 million yuan in bribes, was exposed to the world as the "first corrupt" with the highest amount of corruption since the founding of the People's Republic of China. His single bribe amount of 82.5 million yuan set an unprecedented record. The Nanjing Intermediate People's Court found that most of the five bribery cases involved in Jiang Renjie's case were related to land and real estate development, and many bribes were received during the process of land acquisition and land use change. The procuratorate accused Jiang Renjie of being the vice mayor of Suzhou in February 2001.At that time, his son Jiang Ning graduated from Nantah University and planned to open an auction company with a registered capital of at least 10 million yuan.It was at this time that Jiang asked the developer for the first time for bribes, and it has been out of control ever since.The prosecution found out that Jiang asked for or accepted more than 20 million yuan in bribes in the name of his son. Jiang Renjie accepted more than 100 million yuan in bribes during his tenure as the deputy mayor of Suzhou in just three years, with an average of about 100,000 yuan in bribes per day.One of them exceeded 80 million yuan, making it the largest single bribe received by a corrupt official in my country. The person who paid more than 80 million yuan in bribes was surnamed Gu, an old subordinate of Jiang Renjie, who used to be the director of an office in the Suzhou Industrial Park. In 2001, when the real estate industry was on the rise, Gu wanted to take the opportunity to do business.Gu called Jiang Renjie, who was studying at the Party School of the Provincial Party Committee, and expressed his desire to engage in real estate development. In January 2002, Gu registered and established Suzhou Dingli Products Co., Ltd., which is mainly engaged in real estate brokerage and agency business. The business scope includes real estate development, operation and intermediary, sales of building materials, decorative materials, hardware, and sanitary ware.Jiang was not ambiguous, and actually recommended to Gu the 150 mu of land near the park by the Suzhou Water Conservancy Bureau.The Water Conservancy Bureau has not developed the land since it obtained the land use right in the 1990s. Due to financial pressure, it is eager to transfer it.Jiang told Gu that he could buy a resort at a price of about 70,000 yuan per mu.Jing Jiang helped from it, and told Gu Mou with something in his words: "I only introduced this business to you." "The new policy of "the project land that has not been developed for more than 2 years and belongs to the scope of bidding and auction, the government will take back the land use right according to law.The land of the Water Conservancy Bureau was also taken back.But at that time, Gu had already bought the land and planned to negotiate compensation with Suzhou Industrial Park.Jiang suggested that Gu report the problem to the city leaders in the name of foreign businessmen.Gu Sui formed a fake cooperation with a Hong Kong investment company, and then wrote a letter to the Secretary of the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee in the name of this company, demanding compensation for the land used for his "resort".Sure enough, the matter attracted attention, and a deputy secretary-general of the municipal party committee was assigned to investigate and resolve the matter.Jiang Renjie further coordinated with them so that he could apply for a land certificate before the land recovery. After completing the land replacement procedures, Gu transferred 90% of the land use rights at a high price under Jiang's matchmaking, earning a net profit of 190 million yuan. One night at the end of October 2003, Gu went to Jiang Renjie's house and said excitedly: "We made a net profit of 190 million yuan after the transfer of that land, all thanks to your help!" A month later, Gu told Jiang: "The company All the 82.5 million yuan in the account belongs to you!" However, from 2001 to 2004, Jiang Renjie, who was extremely greedy through land and real estate development, left a good impression on the local people in Suzhou.Before being investigated, citizens could often see Jiang doing morning exercises, wearing a pair of acrylic sweatpants, navy blue with white trim, old style.No one could see that this plainly dressed deputy mayor would accept hundreds of millions in bribes, and he dared to "eat" more than 80 million in bribes at one time! Puppetry is an ancient folk art whose appeal lies in the fact that immobile puppets can perform all kinds of fantastic movements.In fact, its mystery lies in the fact that the body of the puppet hides thin silk threads that are difficult for people to see. The person who holds the thread is the real master of the show! Today, as anti-corruption efforts continue to increase and corruption methods are constantly being refurbished, many corrupt elements are diligently studying new patterns of corruption.Jiang Renjie deserves to be called "the best among men". One of the corruption tactics he has developed is to let his son perform a puppet show on the front stage, while he hides in the background and pulls strings. He can be called a master of corruption in today's era! Jiang Renjie has a baby son named Jiang Ning, who was born in 1979 and was a 1997 student in the Department of Business Administration of Nanjing University. After graduating from university in 2001, he first joined the sales department of Suzhou L'Oreal (China) as a sales director. In January 2002, he joined Suzhou Xie'an Trading Co., Ltd. as a business manager. After his father Jiang Renjie served as the deputy mayor of Suzhou for more than a year, in 2002 He left in September 2009 and started to operate his Suzhou Fuhai Auction House Co., Ltd. Archives show that Suzhou Fuhai Auction House Co., Ltd. (Fuhai Auction House for short) with Jiang Ning as the general manager was established on October 10, 2002. Shareholders Gong Wei and Shi Jianguan each contributed 2.5 million yuan and each held 50% of the shares. Shi Jianguan, born in 1959, was the business manager of Suzhou Housing Property Guarantee Co., Ltd. before the establishment of the above-mentioned company. This company is a holding subsidiary of Suzhou Urban Construction Investment Development Co., Ltd. The legal representative and executive director of Fuhai Company is Gong Wei.Gong is Jiang Ning's college classmate and girlfriend, and they got married in May 2004.When Fuhai Company was established, Gong Wei had only graduated from university for one year.With Gong Wei's age and experience, it is impossible for her to come up with a registered capital of 2.5 million yuan. Jiang Renjie's crime of embezzling public funds was triggered by his son Jiang Ning. The problem first came from the source of registered capital of Fuhai Auction House controlled by Jiang Ning. After the Spring Festival in 2002, Jiang Ning, who graduated from university, wanted to open an auction house, which required a large amount of registered capital and business turnover funds.Jiang Renjie approached Chen Feng, who was the general manager of Suzhou Real Estate Guarantee Co., Ltd. at the time. He was Chen's immediate boss. The company transferred 12 million yuan of public funds to Jiang Nie in two installments.Jiang Renjie told Jiang Ning to return it as soon as possible once the registration is completed.In order to deceive the public, Jiang Ning did not become a shareholder of Fuhai Auction House, but was hired as the general manager, so as to achieve the purpose of hiding his identity in the industrial and commercial registration documents.However, the greedy Jiang Ning did not fully listen to his father's words. After the registration was completed, he did not return the funds as soon as possible, but used the funds to quickly expand his business. In 2003, according to reports from the masses and the intervention of discipline inspection agencies, it was discovered that Chen Feng had a 12 million yuan special fund loophole. Chen Feng was summoned to investigate, which affected Jiang Renjie. After the establishment of Fuhai Auction House, its business included the auction of most of the newly opened shops and land.In the following year, the total business volume of Fuhai Auction House reached 810 million yuan, and the net profit exceeded 40 million yuan. Fuhai Company is not interested in the auction of cultural relics and works of art, all it does is "government business". In August 2003, the five-star hotel "Xinsu International Hotel", which is a state-owned asset in Suzhou Industrial Park, was going to be auctioned. It was originally undertaken by an auction company in Shanghai. After Jiang personally asked, Fu Hai was appointed to auction the price, and Fu Hai took 5% The commission alone made a profit of up to 30 million yuan. Jiang Renjie's method of money laundering is not only to allow his son's auction company to obtain a lot of business, but more importantly, he uses his power in charge of land, urban construction and real estate development to "drive" "fertile water" into his son's company one by one. Jiang Renjie’s usual operation method is: a developer is optimistic about the land—the land is usually the original agricultural or industrial land—find Jiang Renjie, the government will come forward to take back the land, compensate the original users of the land, and then transfer the land to Jiang Renjie. The nature of the project has been transformed into land for commercial, financial and real estate development.Some of these lands were directly allocated to urban construction and development companies affiliated to the government. These companies provided the land and the real estate developers provided the funds. The developer negotiated and auctioned the deal at an agreed low price, and the two parties then shared the profits.The latter method of operation has become a huge source of income for Jiang Renjie and his son. Therefore, Fuhai Auction House dismisses the auction of artworks and public property with the most intense competition in the industry. They only eat land, and some people in the industry call it a "land specialty store". The business conducted by Fuhai Auction House basically includes all newly opened shops in Suzhou, as well as all land and closed enterprises except Suzhou Land Reserve Center.According to the self-report on the website of Fuhai Auction House, "In the past year since its establishment, the cumulative auction turnover has reached 810 million yuan." It is understood that the total annual business volume of the auction industry in Suzhou is about 2 billion yuan, divided by 28 auction houses, of which the total amount of land auctions is only 1 billion yuan.Fuhai Auction House has basically monopolized the land auction market in Suzhou, and their fees are nearly double that of other auction houses. The person in charge of a local auction house revealed that the auction of a certain state-owned asset in Suzhou initially reached their intention to be auctioned by them, but in the end it fell into Fuhai's hands.In addition, Fu Hai's commission standard can reach 5% of the auction price, while other Suzhou auction companies can only get 2%-3% commission. At the end of 2003, due to the dispute over the interests of developers, someone wrote to the discipline inspection agency to report that Jiang Renjie laundered money and accepted bribes in the name of his son, especially the problem that his son's auction company borrowed 12 million yuan of special funds from Chen Feng Guarantee Company.Jiangsu Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection began to investigate.At the same time, the National Audit Office went to Suzhou to conduct a special audit, and the auditors found that 10 million yuan was missing from a certain special fund.The result of the verification is that this fund was misappropriated to Jiang Ning, which was used as the registered capital and start-up capital for the establishment of the company.The audit results made Jiang Renjie very nervous, and he hurriedly asked his son to return the money.Fortunately, during this period of time, under the "care" of Jiang Renjie, the business of Jiang Ning's auction company was booming, and it was not difficult to return the 10 million yuan.After the audit, no one came to hold Jiang accountable.But what Jiang Renjie didn't expect was that he and his family were already under the surveillance of relevant parties because of this incident.After the audit, Jiang Renjie arranged for Jiang Ning to try to transfer the family's funds overseas, so Jiang Ning went to Yunnan to deal with related matters.The Jiang family's transfer of funds was discovered as soon as it started.As a result, Jiang Renjie was "shuanggui", and Jiang Ning was also brought back to Suzhou from Yunnan. The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection ordered Jiangsu Province, Suzhou, and Wuxi Municipal Commissions for Discipline Inspection to jointly investigate the case of Jiang Ning.Jiang Ning's case was heard by the Canglang District Court of Suzhou City.Since Jiang Renjie's case was delayed again and again, the case of his son Jiang Ning could only be postponed.It is believed that soon after the trial of Jiang Renjie's case is concluded, the trial of his son Jiang Ning's case will also begin. (Text/Jin Fu) In July 2007, the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate jointly issued the "Opinions on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in Handling Criminal Cases of Accepting Bribery", which clarified the specific opinions on the application of law in various new types of criminal cases of accepting bribes.Among them, the seventh paragraph clarifies the issue of "accepting bribes by specific related parties" - "state functionaries use the convenience of their positions to seek benefits for the trustee, and instruct the trustee to give relevant property to specific related parties in the form listed in this opinion." , shall be punished as accepting bribes.” The term “specifically related persons” in this opinion refers to persons who have close relatives, mistresses (husbands) and other common interest relations with state functionaries.This judicial interpretation made it impossible for Jiang Renjie and his son to escape the severe punishment of the law.