Chapter 13 The whistleblower was originally the person involved in the case

The political arena in Gansu, which is located in the northwest, has always been relatively peaceful.However, this situation is being quietly broken.After long-term and repeated careful investigations, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Gansu Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and the anti-corruption department of the procuratorate jointly set off a large-scale anti-corruption storm in Lanzhou. On November 21, 2005, the case of Zhang Yushun, the former mayor of Lanzhou City, Gansu Province (at the departmental level), which has attracted much attention from the public, was sentenced by the Dingxi City Intermediate People's Court in the Detention Center of the Gansu Provincial Department of State Security: Defendant Zhang Yushun committed the crime of accepting bribes and was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 20,000 yuan of personal property was confiscated; more than 840,000 yuan of stolen money recovered was confiscated according to law and turned over to the state treasury.

Zhang Yushun, who was born in poverty, has worked his way from an ordinary business official to the mayor of Lanzhou City.Later, Zhang Yushun was transferred from the post of mayor due to work reasons.He blamed the city party secretary for his fall of power, so he mobilized his wife and daughter to collect proofs of the city party secretary's violations of regulations and disciplines throughout the city, and reported to the relevant departments. However, what he didn't expect was that while the relevant departments were investigating the secretary of the municipal party committee, he was also exposed. As a result, both he and the secretary were "double regulated" and "used" to prison.

Zhang Yushun, who has just passed his sixtieth birthday, is a native of Baiyin City, Gansu Province. He was admitted to Lanzhou Normal School (now Lanzhou Teachers College) through his own efforts, and served as the secretary of the school's Youth League Committee.After graduating from university, he worked in the Lanzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce.He is serious and down-to-earth in his work, and has a relatively high professional level. He is well received by his colleagues and leaders in the unit. Therefore, he became the director of the Lanzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce when he was just 40 years old. In 1992, Zhang Yushun was promoted to deputy mayor of Lanzhou City. In 2000, he was promoted to deputy secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and acting mayor. In March, he officially took office as the mayor of Lanzhou City, reaching the glorious apex of his political career.

In the eyes of old colleagues from the commercial system in Lanzhou City, Zhang Yushun is a "dedicated, down-to-earth, and active-minded" person.In public, he often said the phrase "I am a local, as the mayor of Lanzhou, I have deep feelings for Lanzhou and Lanzhou people", and advertised that his biggest goal is to be a "civilian mayor".During Zhang Yushun's tenure as mayor, he did some work that satisfied the masses: Lanzhou's GDP exceeded 30 billion yuan for the first time, greening of the north and south mountains of Lanzhou was implemented, a mayor hotline was established, and measures aimed at improving The "Blue Sky Project" of Lanzhou's environmental pollution situation started to build a 40-kilometer Yellow River customs line in Lanzhou...

However, "one person attains the Tao, chickens and dogs ascend to heaven".After Zhang Yushun became the director of the Commercial Bureau, more and more people surrounded him begging him to do things, and his wife and children often enjoyed different treatment from ordinary people.Zhang Yushun's corruption began at this time. Not long after he became the director of the Bureau of Commerce, a fellow villager entrusted him to buy a batch of goods that were in short supply in Lanzhou at that time, and he signed a letter out of favor.Unexpectedly, someone gave him an envelope afterwards. When he opened the envelope anxiously, he found that it contained 2,000 yuan in cash.It was the 2,000 yuan in cash that made him worry for several months, but nothing happened afterwards.Zhang Yushun became more courageous, and began to deliberately do some "following the water" things, and he naturally reaped a lot of benefits.As his official position rises, he gets more and more rewards, and his wife and daughter also get more and more benefits.During his tenure as mayor, Lin Xianyou, chairman of Gansu Daluqiao Real Estate Co., Ltd., arranged for Hou Xingyi, a shareholder of the company, to give him US$60,000 in order to obtain the overall relocation project of Lanzhou No. 16 Middle School; in 2003, Jia Zhonghu, manager of Lanzhou Huanghe Industrial Development Corporation He was given 250,000 yuan; before and after the Spring Festival in 2004, Zhao Youhai, the manager of the Lanzhou branch of Dongyang No. 2 Construction Engineering Company in Zhejiang Province, took over the project and gave him 100,000 yuan in the name of New Year greetings.Of course, he accepted all the money with a smile.

In addition, Zhang Yushun's wife and daughter each received 100,000 yuan from "Gansu's richest man" Zhang Guofang. After Zhang Yushun became the mayor, he soon found that he and Wang Jun, the secretary of the Lanzhou Municipal Party Committee, were always at odds with each other, and his ideas were often rejected by the other party.And sometimes some of his deputies would rather listen to Wang Jun than him.Zhang Yushun thought nothing of it at the time, until July 2000 when he participated in the inauguration ceremony of a production line of a large enterprise in Lanzhou City, and the enterprise gave each of the main guests a red envelope afterwards.A few days later, Zhang Yushun heard from somewhere that his red envelopes were less than Wang Jun's. Although he didn't know if it was true or not, he felt it was definitely possible.He began to feel lost. He felt that in this big city in the northwest, if he didn't become the top leader, he would be bullied.

In March 2001, the owner of a well-known company in Lanzhou approached Zhang Yushun, wanting to get the right to develop an old urban area in Lanzhou, and gave him 80,000 yuan in cash.Afterwards, when the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee discussed this matter, Zhang Yushun proposed to let the boss develop it. Almost no other standing committee members had any objections, but Wang Jun opposed it with all his strength.In the end, Zhang Yushun failed to do anything for the boss, so he had to return the benefit fee in despair. And soon, the renovation project of this old city fell into the hands of a boss recommended by Wang Jun.Zhang Yushun heard that Wang Jun got a lot of benefits from this project, so he had even more dissatisfaction with Wang Jun, and began to openly oppose Wang Jun.

From then on, as long as Wang Jun put forward some suggestions in his work, no matter how good the opinions were, Zhang Yushun would find some faults in them.As time passed, Wang Jun had more and more opinions on him, and the conflict between the two continued to intensify. Zhang Yushun suffered from not being able to grasp Wang Jun's handle, so he could only keep this resentment in his heart.So while fighting openly and secretly with Wang Jun, he began to pay attention to investigating some rumors about Wang Jun outside. If there was any disturbance, he even went to investigate in person, hoping to find conclusive evidence as soon as possible and seize the weakness of the municipal party secretary.

Soon, Zhang Yushun got a "reliable" news that Wang Jun had received a large sum of money from Zhang Guofang, who was very popular at the time.Zhang Yushun was jealous and happy at the same time.What I'm jealous of is that although I once got a benefit from Zhang Guofang, it's far less than Wang Jun's; I'm happy that I finally have "conclusive" evidence this time, as long as Wang Jun makes irresponsible remarks to him, he will have The trump card. Zhang Guofang is a native of Dongyang, Zhejiang Province. When he was 21 years old, he came to Dingxi, Gansu Province. With his exquisite woodworking skills, the "West Lake" mattress became a bestseller in the local area, and thus made his first pot of gold.After he arrived in Lanzhou more than ten years ago, his wealth expanded rapidly and he became the "richest man in Gansu". During this expansion process, the support of "power" for him was a key factor.

However, Wang Jun was not as afraid of him as Zhang Yushun imagined. In October 2001, at a meeting of the Standing Committee, Zhang Yushun and Wang Jun quarreled over a work matter.After the meeting, Zhang Yushun angrily said to Wang Jun: "You are not clean, be careful and I will send you to prison..." Unexpectedly, Wang Jun was not afraid, and replied: "I will also send you to prison..." After all, he was not clean, so Zhang Yushun began to feel guilty. He could get Wang Jun's materials, and Wang Jun could get his materials, so he didn't dare to be so arrogant.In this way, the Lanzhou Municipal Party Committee and the municipal government seemed much calmer without the noise of the two of them, but secretly, neither of them gave up monitoring each other.

The conflict between Zhang and Wang became public when taxi drivers went on strike in Lanzhou at the end of 2001.This incident brought a lot of inconvenience to the lives of Lanzhou citizens. After the incident, the two sides blamed each other and the conflict intensified.Municipal Party Secretary Wang Jun believes that Mayor Zhang Yushun bears unshirkable responsibility in the turmoil, and at the subsequent 33rd meeting of the Standing Committee of the 12th Lanzhou Municipal People's Congress, he made it clear that he would no longer support Zhang Yushun's work.Zhang Yushun was immediately defeated in the subsequent voting and resigned as mayor of Lanzhou City. In January 2002, he was transferred to the Provincial People's Congress as Deputy Secretary-General and then Secretary-General. In this battle for power, Zhang Yushun, who was unwilling, lost in this way. Zhang Yushun has almost never failed from a small clerk in the Commercial Bureau to the mayor of Lanzhou City.But now that he was defeated in such a "mess", he felt that Wang Jun was using his power to get him off the horse.In addition to the deep loss in my heart, there is hatred for Wang Jun. People go tea cool. During the Spring Festival of 2002, Zhang Yushun, who had just been transferred to the Provincial People's Congress, obviously felt that fewer people came to pay him New Year's greetings, not even as many as when he was the director of the Bureau of Commerce.Zhang Yushun lamented the cruelty of the world, while continuing to "reflect" on the causes of today's situation, which made him hate Wang Jun even more, and determined to fight him to the end. Working at the National People's Congress is far less busy than being the mayor, so Zhang Yushun decided to use his spare time to collect evidence about Wang Jun again. In his eyes, there must be something wrong with Wang Jun. In order to collect more evidence, Zhang Yushun called his wife Liu Yali and daughter Zhang Qingfang together to discuss.Since he left the post of mayor, Liu Yali and her daughter can no longer enjoy the glory and wealth of the past, so they support Zhang Yushun's approach. After that, Liu Yali and Zhang Qingfang collected some gossip about Wang Jun in the society all day long. Whenever they heard that Wang Jun was wrong, the mother and daughter were very excited, and asked the other party to make it clear.For this reason, the people who were questioned often ran away in fright, for fear that they were plainclothes.If any troubles were encountered during the investigation, Zhang Yushun would use his social connections to do it himself. In May 2002, there were rumors in the society that Wang Jun had an improper relationship with a beautiful hostess in Lanzhou City.Zhang Yushun was as energetic as if he had smoked a big cigarette, so he asked Liu Yali and Zhang Qingfang to find the host's unit and follow them around the clock.As a result, a few days later, the host recognized Liu Yali, the ex-mayor's wife. Not knowing the situation, she greeted Liu Yali, scaring her away. After Zhang Yushun found out about this, he quickly asked his wife and daughter to retreat, and he found a few former subordinates to continue the follow-up investigation.He paid the "investigation team" 20,000 yuan for the activity, promising that if these people find the evidence, they can get a big reward from him. However, after one month, the "investigation team" did not collect any evidence.Zhang Yushun began to blame his subordinates for their incompetence again, and went out in person.But it took dozens of days, but still no evidence was collected.However, he firmly believed that "no wind, no waves", and let his "investigation working group" continue to carry out "work". The Spring Festival is the time for officials to "get rich". In the Spring Festival of 2004, Zhang Yushun decided to use this time to catch Wang Jun, who was already a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee.In Zhang Yushun's eyes, it is an open secret that various companies give "New Year's greetings" to their leaders during the Spring Festival, and some business owners have specially formulated "New Year's greetings policy".Zhang Yushun used his network to inquire about these "policies".And Liu Yali and Zhang Qingfang observed near the homes of Wang Jun and several deputy secretaries and deputy mayors who were close to Wang Jun. Since the people who paid New Year's greetings were all famous people in Lanzhou, they sent the "New Year's greetings" People made records one by one. After nearly two years of hard work, Zhang Yushun collected more than 100 pages of materials on Wang Jun and some officials who were close to Wang Jun in violation of regulations and discipline. And just when Zhang Yushun was looking for an opportunity to hand over these materials to relevant departments, in May 2004, Zhang Guofang, who entered the Hurun China Rich List with a net worth of 950 million yuan, was suddenly taken away by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to "assist in the investigation". great response. Zhang Yushun naturally knew that behind Zhang Guofang's fortune, apart from his own efforts, there were other government officials who benefited from it and gave him some "preferential" policies. In the trajectory of Zhang Guofang's fortune, the starting point is the construction of the Guofang Parkson Shopping Center in the center of Lanzhou. In April 1998, Zhang Guofang obtained the public welfare land in Dongfanghong Plaza in the downtown area of ​​Lanzhou at a low price, and built a shopping mall here. The original intention of the municipal government is to build an international expo center here and use it as a permanent main venue of the Lanzhou Fair.But why did the public welfare land become Zhang Guofang's commercial land?This became an important breakthrough in the investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. Zhang Yushun felt that this was the best time to bring down Wang Jun, so he wrote a report letter overnight.However, considering that he had also benefited from Zhang Guofang, after writing the report letter, he dared not send it out. He immediately went to discuss with a few very good friends, and the friends gave him advice and said: "The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection must have a targeted investigation. It has been two years since you left the post of mayor of Lanzhou City, and the target will definitely not lock you in. Instead, it locked the leadership in the position for the past two years..." After hearing what his friend said, Zhang Yushun mustered up the courage to anonymously send the report letter to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in Beijing. At the critical moment of the investigation, the investigation team jointly formed by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Gansu Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection received a mysterious report material, which contained detailed evidence, reflecting the fact that Wang Jun, member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, secretary of the Lanzhou Municipal Party Committee, and the deputy mayor Yang Zaixi’s violations involved the transfer of public welfare land in Dongfanghong Plaza in the center of Lanzhou to Zhang Guofang at a low price for the development of Guofang Parkson; the transfer of agricultural land in Anning District of Lanzhou to Jia Zhonghu, manager of Lanzhou Huanghe Industrial Development Corporation, for the construction of Huanghe Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. city. Yang Zaixi is the deputy mayor in charge of urban construction and environmental protection. He was the specific person in charge of the land transfer of Dongfanghong Plaza and played a significant role. Judging from the subsequent lawsuit against Yang Zaixi, in 2002, Yang Zaixi successively Received bribes of 60,000 yuan and 100,000 yuan from Zhang Guofang twice. Judging from the situation disclosed later by the procuratorate, Zhang Guofang’s shopping mall was originally in the name of building an 8-story international expo center. The agreement reached at the beginning was: the property rights of the 1st to 4th floors belonged to Zhang Guofang, and the government owned the property rights of the 5th to 6th floors. 40-day free use right on floors 7-8 during the "Lanzhou Trade Fair". During the construction, Zhang Guofang signed another contract with the government due to lack of funds.The content of the contract is: Zhang Guofang obtains the land use right free of charge, and Gansu Province and Lanzhou City Finance respectively pay 60 million yuan and 40 million yuan in construction funds as the construction funds for the 5th to 8th floors of the International Expo Center. In addition, in order to solve the financial problem, Zhang Guofang divided the 1st to 4th floors of the International Expo Center into boutique houses for public pre-sale at the beginning of construction, and then took back all the sold floors on the grounds of "changes in the business structure of the mall" .At the same time, Guofang Parkson made another request to collect property management fees from the government. In the end, the two parties reached an agreement that the 5th and 6th floors would be used by Guofang Parkson for free, and the venue would be cleared during the Kailan Fair. In September 2004, several leading groups in Gansu Province and Lanzhou City held a meeting. The theme of the meeting was that many Lanzhou officials were involved in the "Zhang Guofang Case" in Lanzhou, and everyone was required to be honest and law-abiding.At the venue, Zhang Yushun didn't see Wang Jun's figure, and he knew right then that something might have happened to Wang Jun.After the meeting, he received another credible news that Wang Jun was being quarantined for review.That night, Zhang Yushun took his family to a restaurant to celebrate. What Zhang Yushun never expected at this time was that Zhang Guofang and Jia Zhonghu, the bribers involved in his report letter, also confessed to the fact that they had bribed Zhang Yushun, other officials of Lanzhou City, and their family members when they were investigated by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. The whistleblower turned out to be a "person involved in the case", which turned out to be a windfall. In October 2004, Zhang Yushun, who wanted to bring down Wang Jun, was "shuanggui" first, and became a major case directly investigated by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. The Gansu Provincial People's Procuratorate set up a special case team to investigate this case. The earthquake in Lanzhou's political arena finally broke out, and its lethality was unprecedented in Lanzhou. "Pull out the radish and bring out the mud". During the investigation of this case, Zhu Zuoyong, the then vice chairman of the Gansu Provincial Political Consultative Conference and the former mayor of Lanzhou City (that is, Zhang Yushun's former mayor), and the then deputy mayor in charge of urban construction and tourism were found. Chang Yang Zaixi and other hundreds of "problematic" officials set off a clean government storm in the whole province. Zhang Yushun, who used to be the mayor, completely forgot his identity after being "shuanggui" and began to play "rogue" with the investigators: he shouted "wronged" every day in the detention center, saying that he did not take bribes.Although he was shouting every day, he knew what he knew and tried every means to get in touch with the outside world and find the person who bribed him back then to make a collusion confession. After all, Zhang Yushun was a high-ranking official, and some people always tried to "rescue" him because of their own interests. Therefore, although he was detained, there were always people who could visit him in the detention center through various connections. In the detention center, Zhang Yushun often asked for paper and pens under the pretext of writing confession materials.Then write some "materials" that are useless to the case handlers, use the saved paper to write notes, quietly report the situation to the wife and daughter, and arrange outside collusion work. Outside the detention center, under his command, Zhang Yushun's wife Liu Yali and daughter Zhang Qingfang went door-to-door to visit those who gave him bribes, wrote "promissory notes" to others, and converted all the bribes they received back then into loans. Under the mediation of their mother and daughter, half of the bribers accepted the "promissory note", but the other half received a huge amount, which made the family panic.Zhang Yushun then speeded up the delivery of the note, trying to use his "relationship" to settle the matter. It was precisely because of his interference activities that the procuratorate's detection work suddenly fell into a passive position. One day in mid-December 2004, an armed police soldier on duty accidentally found a note that Zhang Yushun hadn't delivered yet, and immediately handed the note to the task force, who immediately searched for his son-in-law's home , and found more than a dozen "IOUs"... Soon, Liu Yali and Zhang Qingfang were monitored by the public security organs. At the same time, in order to completely cut off Zhang's contact with the outside world, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection detained Zhang Yushun in a county detention center in Mianyang City, Sichuan Province, and conducted an off-site detention review. After 3 months of investigation and evidence collection, the procuratorate soon found out that Zhang Yushun had collected more than 800,000 yuan in bribes during his tenure as the mayor of Lanzhou City. Seeing that he was unable to stand up, Zhang Yushun started to play a new gimmick - claiming that he had a "heart disease" every day. On May 16, 2005, the People's Procuratorate of Gansu Province decided to arrest Zhang Yushun on suspicion of accepting bribes.However, Zhang Yushun refused to sign the "arrest warrant" and demanded "release on bail pending trial" on the grounds that "he was in poor health and his behavior was not a crime of accepting bribes". In response to Zhang Yushun's request, the Provincial Procuratorate immediately conducted a professional medical examination on Zhang Yushun's body.As a result, before entering the hospital, Zhang Yushun's complexion changed, his head began to sweat, and his legs began to tremble.Afterwards, the hospital conducted a comprehensive physical examination on him. Although he had some minor physical problems, he was basically healthy and did not meet the conditions for "release on bail pending further investigation." On June 2, 2005, the People's Procuratorate of Gansu Province launched the supervision procedure of people's supervisors for the first time.At 9 o'clock in the morning of the same day, four people's supervisors came to the sixth floor of the Provincial Procuratorate. After 3 hours of understanding and consultation on the case, they finally voted independently and unanimously passed the decision to formally arrest Zhang Yushun. This time, when the investigators delivered the "Decision of Arrest" to Zhang Yushun, he could no longer think of any way to exonerate himself, so he bowed his head. Clean and honest administration of officials is an important guarantee for local economic development. The turmoil in Lanzhou is undoubtedly a demonstration of the central government's firm determination to fight corruption, and it has also made the people of Lanzhou happy.Su Rong, secretary of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee, also emphasized in various meetings that we must strengthen the construction of the party's work style and clean government, and fight corruption with an iron fist. At the same time, we must pay attention to educating and caring for cadres. combined. On June 23, 2005, at the briefing meeting of Zhang Yushun, Yang Zaixi and others by the Gansu Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, Wang Runkang, executive deputy secretary of the Gansu Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and director of the Supervision Department, emphasized that while strengthening anti-corruption, it is necessary to combine the reality of Gansu Province and pay attention to Maintain the overall situation of "promoting and supporting the rapid development of the private economy".He said that for corrupt elements with serious problems and strong reactions from the masses, "severe penalties" must be imposed. At the same time, those who take the initiative to clarify the problem, actively return stolen goods, and perform meritorious service, including some private entrepreneurs, "will be punished according to discipline and law. Leniency". The economic power of Zhejiang merchants plays a pivotal role in Gansu's economy. According to a statistics from the Gansu Zhejiang Enterprise Federation, there are currently about 70,000 Zhejiang merchants investing in Gansu, of which there are more than 3,000 enterprises, with annual sales The amount reached 16 billion yuan, and nearly 1 billion yuan in profits and taxes were paid.Gansu Province officially announced that the province's GDP in 2003 was 130.1 billion yuan, and the economic scale of Zheshang accounted for more than one-tenth of Gansu's GDP, which shows the economic strength of Zheshang. This incident caused a great shock to Lanzhou City. The general opinion of officials is: "The mayor and the secretary are at odds, internal friction is serious, and the team is too disunity, which affects the normal work of Lanzhou." Organized by the Gansu Provincial Party Committee When Chen Baosheng, member of the Standing Committee and head of the Propaganda Department, was transferred to be secretary of the Lanzhou Municipal Party Committee, he focused on this issue when he took up his new post. Chen Baosheng specifically emphasized: Party and government organizations at all levels in the city must adhere to both symptoms and root causes, punish and prevent simultaneously, establish a sound system for punishing and preventing corruption, and unswervingly promote the construction of a clean and honest government and anti-corruption work. (Text/Zhou Jun) Zhang Yushun, who had a successful official career, was defeated in the open and secret struggle with Wang Jun, then Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee.Zhang Yushun felt that he "had a big fall and lost a mess", so he launched a crazy revenge like a clown.In order to bring down their political opponents, Zhang Yushun and his family worked hard.Zhang Yushun, who sang about anti-corruption while rampantly corrupting himself, was ultimately shooting himself in the foot, dragging others down, and he himself could not escape the law after all.