Chapter 5 Chapter Five: The First Case of China’s Coke Quotas

On August 30, 2007, Wu Gongyang, who was sitting in the criminal dock of the Beijing Higher People's Court, sincerely confessed to the judge: "I feel that I have indeed broken the law and caused great harm to the country and society. Let me help you." His leaders and family members have been harmed. I have been pleading guilty, hoping to get some relief from my conscience. I am willing to accept legal punishment, but I hope to get a light sentence." The 39-year-old Wu Gongyang was the director-level secretary of a vice minister of the Ministry of Commerce six years ago.Before the incident, his position was the leader of the Credit Group of the Office of the National Leading Group for Rectifying and Standardizing the Market Economic Order.In the Ministry of Commerce, Wu Gongyang's official career can be said to have a bright future, but he was imprisoned for accepting bribes of 1.21 million yuan.At the same time as Wu Gongyang, Meng Dan, director of the Industrial Products Export Division of the Foreign Trade Department of the Ministry of Commerce, was also sacked.

If they don't fall from the horse, the future of these two young officials can be said to be bright, and it should be no problem to be promoted to department-level cadres. What led to the downfall of these two career stars was the "import and export quotas" that we ordinary people have heard of but few know the details of.And it was Li Jiyue, a mysterious rich woman with great powers in China's import and export industry, who pulled them down.The series of cases initiated by Li Jiyue, Wu Gongyang, Meng Dan and others also became the first case of coke quotas in China. Mysterious rich lady Li Dajie, the past of China's quota queen

Before describing this case, I would like to briefly introduce the term "quota" to you.The so-called quota refers to the implementation of import and export restrictions on a certain product in order to protect the national industry, and the annual import and export quota stipulated for the product.Taking coke export as an example, according to the usual practice, the coke export volume is determined by the National Development and Reform Commission every year, and then the Ministry of Commerce adopts a declaration system to implement distribution to various enterprises.For example, in 2004, due to the large domestic demand for coal, China's coke export quota was reduced from 15 million tons in the previous year to 9 million tons.

Due to the benefits such as national tax rebates and the price difference at home and abroad, getting a quota is equivalent to getting a large profit.Therefore, many enterprises hope to obtain import and export quotas through various channels to obtain more benefits for the enterprises.The person in charge of the quota, such as Meng Dan, director of the Industrial Products Export Division of the Foreign Trade Department of the Ministry of Commerce, has naturally become the target of "tackling key problems" for various enterprises.Just because quotas can bring huge economic benefits, various "quota brokers" have appeared in the "quota war" in which corrupt officials in charge of approval power act as "sellers" and quota-demanding companies act as "buyers." ", Li Jiyue is the well-known "quota queen" among these brokers.

Li Jiyue is a mysterious legendary figure. Her legendary color lies in that few people know her true background, and she is better at covering herself with a mysterious aura, and making the most of this legendary color. Even Meng Dan and Such a hot figure as Wu Gongyang is willing to be driven by her. Li Jiyue, whose ancestral home is Jiangsu, was born in Beijing on February 15, 1949 and grew up in Beijing.Much has been said about her family background.However, the exact information is: Li Jiyue entered the Heilongjiang Production and Construction Corps after graduating from middle school in 1968, returned to Beijing four years later and was transferred to Beijing Radio Instrument Company, and worked in this unit for 11 years.During this period, Li Jiyue got married and had a child. Her husband, who worked in the diplomatic service, was well-educated and had experience working abroad.

Since then, frequent job-hopping has become Li Jiyue's most important professional characteristic. In 1983, Li Jiyue was transferred to the Beijing Microelectronics Technology Research Institute as the director of the Foreign Economic and Economic Affairs Office, and she first came into contact with foreign trade.In her career since then, she has never left the foreign trade industry.In her eyes, foreign trade work contains unlimited business opportunities, and it is far from enough to rely on business acumen and follow suit to do a good job in foreign trade.A good interpersonal network, especially the close contact with the upper-level power holders and information controllers, will make this job a cornucopia with unlimited prospects.

The opportunity finally came. Li Jiyue joined the State Planning Commission in 1988. She accumulated a wealth of contacts through her office life, but only two years later, Li Jiyue left the State Planning Commission and transferred to China National Textiles Import and Export Corporation.Then it was transferred to COFCO Import and Export Corporation in 1995.In the second year after entering COFCO, Li Jiyue became the first legal representative and chairman of COFCO Machinery and Electronics Import and Export Co., Ltd., reaching the pinnacle of her career. Li Jiyue once had a great time in COFCO, but at the shareholder meeting held by COFCO in August 2001, she was dismissed from the positions of chairman and legal representative of the company and replaced as the general manager of the company, and the group assigned another person to preside over the work.Since then, Li Jiyue has actually lost her real power.

However, after losing her former power, there is a mysterious "Quota Queen" Sister Li in the foreign trade circle. Mediation special approval, cutting coke quota big cake Li Jiyue, who had no power in her hands, was extremely disappointed. However, not only did she not quit the foreign trade industry, but she also caused even greater waves in this industry. In the second half of 2003, Boss Xue, a self-operated export business, approached Li Jiyue, who was well-known in the foreign trade circle, and asked Li Jiyue if he could find a relationship to get some coke export quotas, and promised a huge reward, and the omnipotent Li Jiyue agreed.

Another special ability of Li Jiyue is that she can bring out the abilities of the people she knows to the extreme.The reason why she agreed to Boss Xue was because when she was doing morning exercises in the park in 1997, she met a person who had worked in the Ministry of Commerce.Immediately, Li Jiyue approached this morning exercise friend and asked if she could introduce a leader of the Ministry of Commerce who was in charge of quotas. She wanted to "consult" about quotas.That enthusiastic friend immediately led Li Jiyue into the Ministry of Commerce one morning in the fall of 2003, and led her to Meng Dan, director of the Industrial Products Export Division of the Foreign Trade Department.

At this time, Meng Dan, who was in power at the age of 39, was a well-known beauty director in the Ministry of Commerce. Her responsibility was to manage the export of national industrial products, including the allocation of quotas for resource-based products such as coke and rare earths. Since it was an introduction from a colleague, it was difficult for Meng Dan to refuse.In addition, Li Jiyue mentioned that he was similar to Meng Dan in terms of experience, and both of them have been engaged in foreign trade work for a long time. Meng Dan seriously answered the questions about coke quotas that Li Jiyue consulted. Ten minutes later, Li Jiyue got up to say goodbye. Before leaving, Li Jiyue took down Meng Dan's phone number.It was this phone call that brought them together.

Li Jiyue undoubtedly has a forward-looking vision, because since 2003, international coal prices have continued to rise, and export quotas have become more and more difficult to obtain.Due to the surge in demand from the international steel industry, China's coke exports reached more than 15 million tons in 2003, accounting for nearly 60% of the world's total trade volume.At this time, China's coke export policy changed from encouragement to restriction "in order to protect the environment and ensure domestic supply".There are two trump cards for this restriction: first, from October of that year to January of the following year, the Ministry of Commerce lowered the coke export tax rebate twice, from 15% to zero; second, the export quota in 2004 was adjusted to 9 million tons. Due to the reduction of coke quotas, the China Coking Industry Association once submitted a letter to the Ministry of Commerce, suggesting that trading companies and production enterprises should implement bidding to allocate export quotas, which should be supervised by a management committee composed of the government, associations, and chambers of commerce.However, due to the opposition of relevant stakeholders, the matter was left alone.Previously, coke quotas were issued in the form of secondary distribution, that is, the Ministry of Commerce first distributed the quotas to the provincial departments of commerce and the Minmetals Chamber of Commerce, and then the latter two agencies distributed them to various enterprises according to the actual situation.By November 2004, the Ministry of Commerce had explicitly withdrawn this allocation right. The international coke price soared to US$400 per ton, quadrupling compared with the same period of the previous year. Undoubtedly, behind this subtle change, Meng Dan's industrial product export department has a greater degree of deployment and autonomy in quota allocation.Meng Dan knows the trend of the coke market at a glance, which is determined by his work characteristics.Li Jiyue knows that the coke quota allocation system can be exploited.She is not the only one who sees that the coke quota distribution system can be exploited.Of course, Meng Dan, who was in charge of the quota, knew better. Li Jiyue has her eyes on this piece of cake, because behind this piece of cake is a huge profit that is unknown.The "intermediate fee" for each ton of coke quota suddenly rose to 180 US dollars, which is almost half of the sales price of coke. The temptation of this kind of interest is extremely huge.Li Jiyue, who retreated to the second line, was naturally unwilling to be idle. She used the existing network and spared no expense to obtain key information. Naturally, she would not miss an ally like Meng Dan. After June 2004, the Ministry of Commerce began to allocate coke export quotas uniformly, and the quotas determined by the export of industrial products must be reviewed and approved by the Secretary Affairs Committee.In the second half of 2004, in order to avoid trade disputes with the EU, the Ministry of Commerce increased the "adjustment quota" of 4 million tons of coke in one fell swoop.This kind of "adjustment quota" is outside the normal procedure. In order to support the development of the west, enterprises in the central and western regions have applied for coke export quotas upon the approval of the leaders.After being transferred to the Department of Foreign Trade by the leader, the "adjustment quota" can be issued, but the amount issued should not exceed 40,000 tons in principle.The way to issue this special situation is: the industrial product export office submits the application for approval documents, the approval documents are issued by the general office after being signed and issued by the director, and the approval documents with the official seal are issued to the applying enterprise or department, and a copy is sent to the business director of the place where the enterprise is located. department.According to the procedures, the approval documents of no more than 40,000 tons may not be discussed by the Secretary of the Department of Foreign Trade. This is the procedure for the special approval document for "adjustment quota".After getting acquainted with Meng Dan, Li Jiyue once again consulted Meng Dan about the detailed process of handling the special approval document, and Meng Dan introduced the situation to Li Jiyue without reservation.Meng Dan obviously ignored Li Jiyue's energy, because the special approval document for coke quota is indeed not something that ordinary people can get, and even Meng Dan can't get it. After learning about the procedures of the special approval document, Li Jiyue found four companies including Shanxi Coke Group that were in urgent need of coke quotas, and processed the documents for applying for coke export quotas. In July 2004, Li Jiyue mediated through various parties and asked relevant leaders to sign their opinions on the coke export quota applications of the four companies and hand them over to the Ministry of Commerce. After the quota application is sent to the Ministry of Commerce, the most critical department is the industrial product export department where Meng Dan is located. If it gets stuck in Meng Dan's hands, all previous efforts will be wasted.Li Jiyue found Meng Dan and told Meng Dan that he had submitted four special approval documents for coke, and told Meng Dan the name of the company that declared the quota.Li Jiyue Qian urged Wan Wan: "You help look at the point, speed up the approval, don't delay!" For Meng Dan, this is just a matter of effort.Meng Dan readily agreed, and told Li Jiyue, "I'll let you know if it's approved. Don't worry." At this time, Meng Dan had to admire the powerful Sister Li. The four special approvals were 160,000 tons. The "intermediate fee" of US$180 per ton and the "intermediate fee" of 160,000 tons are enough to make anyone speechless. In mid-to-late August 2004, Meng Dan called Li Jiyue to tell Li Jiyue that the special approval document had been approved and issued.Li Jiyue hurried to the Ministry of Commerce to find Meng Dan to get the approval document. The quota approval is a confidential document. According to the normal procedure, the distribution rules of the coke export quota issuance document are: the document is issued by the leader, and the document is approved by the general office and then sent to the printing and printing center for printing and distribution.If it involves a local enterprise, the General Office of the Ministry of Commerce shall exchange it to the relevant local competent department of commerce through the confidential or electronic exchange system, and the local competent department of commerce shall notify the enterprise; if it involves a centrally managed enterprise, the Department of Foreign Trade shall directly notify the enterprise with a letter of introduction or other proofs.Although the Ministry of Commerce has no regulations prohibiting enterprises from picking up the approval document, the unit that picks up the approval document should issue a letter of introduction or a certificate before picking it up. That is to say, according to Li Jiyue's status, she is not allowed to receive the approval document.However, Li Jiyue successfully obtained the approval document from Meng Dan.After receiving the approval documents, Li Jiyue sold the quotas of these four companies.Li Jiyue is of course an old fritter, she let the company read the documents, and after earning the money, she destroyed the documents. During the process of handling these four quota documents, Li Jiyue did not send money to Meng Dan. However, Li Jiyue is a person who "knows the rules". After she made money from Shanxi, she naturally couldn't forget to share a cup with Meng Dan. One day at the beginning of 2005, after Li Jiyue invited Meng Dan to dinner, she took Meng Dan to a small apartment of Li Jiyue's mother, took out 200,000 yuan from the closet and put it into a paper bag, and said to Meng Dan: : "I will give you 200,000 yuan first, and you can use it to subsidize your family." Meng Dan declined for a while, but then took it anyway.In fact, Meng Dan didn't want the money, but if he didn't take the money, he would offend Li Jiyue.Meng Dan felt that Li Jiyue's energy was too great, and offending Li Jiyue would offend many people. Given Meng Dan's situation, she did not dare to offend Li Jiyue, and she did help Li Jiyue, so she had no choice but to take the money.It was the 200,000 yuan that pushed Meng Dan, a promising female director, into the bottomless abyss. Of course, Meng Dan never expected that the procuratorate would find more than 30 million yuan in cash in Li Jiyue's small house.Meng Dan didn't even expect that at the beginning of 2006, less than a year later, before Meng Dan had time to use the 200,000 yuan, Li Jiyue was offered by his family in Shanxi.When Li Jiyue was investigated by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection for suspected illegal business operations and bribery, Li Jiyue immediately told Meng Dan.Meng Dan, who was in panic all day long, made an appointment with Li Jiyue's son the next day, and handed over the 200,000 yuan to Li Jiyue's son. However, it was already three autumns too late to return the stolen goods.When interrogated, Li Jiyue still confessed to Meng Dan. On April 2, 2007, the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court sentenced Meng Dan to 10 years in prison for accepting bribes.A promising female official fell so easily. Pull the secretary into the water, 530,000 yuan down the career star Two months after Meng Dan was sentenced, standing in the dock of the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court was also Meng Dan's colleague Wu Gongyang, who was the secretary of the vice minister at the time, who was also knocked down by Li Jiyue.In this coke quota chain, Wu Gongyang was dragged into the water for the same reason as Meng Dan, somewhat sad and helpless. Wu Gongyang is a native of Xunwu County, Jiangxi Province. The college entrance examination in 1985 allowed him to enter the Accounting Department of Hangzhou Business School. In 1989, Wu Gongyang graduated from university and started his official career. He worked in the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, the predecessor of the Ministry of Commerce. Department of Labor, promoted to chief staff member after 7 years. In September 1997, he went to the University of International Business and Economics to study for a master's degree in law.After graduation, Wu Gongyang naturally became the deputy director of the Office of the Personnel, Education and Labor Department of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation.After that, he successfully transformed with his own efforts and served as a full-time secretary at the deputy division level of the General Office of the Ministry of Commerce. In June 2001, Wu Gongyang became the director-level full-time secretary of a certain vice minister.Before the incident, he was transferred to the Office of the National Leading Group for Rectifying and Standardizing the Market Economic Order as the leader of the Credit Group.As the leading unit of my country's social credit system, the National Regulation Office was established in April 2001 with the authorization of the State Council.The person in charge and key members of this temporary agency are appointed by the Ministry of Commerce. It is difficult for others to understand that Li Jiyue can play Wu Gongyang well.But there is one detail that rarely attracts others' attention. At that time, Wu Gongyang's wife who was pregnant with Liujia was involved in a car accident, and Wu Gongyang needed money.What Li Jiyue needs Wu Gongyang's help is that Wu Gongyang can make the approval report completed by Meng Dan in the early stage be submitted to the senior officials of the Ministry of Commerce and get the approval smoothly. Wu Gongyang met Li Jiyue in the second half of 2001.At that time, Li Jiyue came to the ministry to look for the deputy minister, but the deputy minister was not there, so they met while chatting. During this meeting, Li Jiyue and Wu Gongyang talked about many things.When Li Jiyue asked about Wu Gongyang's income and expenses, the young secretary Wu Gongyang said that he had no money to live on his salary, so he was still relatively tight financially.During the chat, Wu Gongyang accidentally mentioned that the vice minister's daughter had borrowed money from him, but Li Jiyue didn't respond at that time.But one day not long after, Li Jiyue came to Wu Gongyang's office and quietly gave him an envelope.This time, Li Jiyue claimed to be the godmother of the vice minister's daughter, and she made a special trip to repay Wu Gongyang's money for her goddaughter.Because it was not easy to refuse in the office, Wu Gongyang accepted it. When Li Jiyue left, Wu Gongyang opened the envelope and saw that there was 100,000 RMB in it.In fact, the daughter of the deputy minister at that time only borrowed 5,000 yuan from Wu Gongyang. She borrowed 5,000 yuan, but Sister Li returned 100,000 yuan. Wu Gongyang knew the meaning of the difference very well. Sure enough, two months after the incident, Li Jiyue came to Wu Gongyang.Li Jiyue's request was for Wu Gongyang to apply for some car import quotas for a certain company.Wu Gongyang did not ask the deputy minister to sign the application documents, but instead greeted the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering directly, relying on his identity as the secretary of the deputy minister.Finally, a company's application documents were approved. Not long after the matter was successfully completed, Li Jiyue asked Wu Gongyang again to help apply for some car import quotas for another company.After Li Jiyue handed over the application documents to Wu Gongyang in private, Wu Gongyang took advantage of his position to include this document in the documents to be reported to the deputy minister.Finally, the deputy minister approved the application document, and it went to the Mechanical and Electrical Department according to the normal procedure. According to insiders in the industry, the profit from speculating in car import quotas is astonishing. An import car license with a production cost of only 10 yuan can be sold to more than 100,000 yuan in the black market. On November 29, 2004, "Hebei's No. 1 Corrupt" Li Youcan was sentenced to death for accepting bribes by reselling car quotas.Li Youcan is the deputy director of the Hebei Provincial Department of Foreign Trade. He provided 1,249 car quotas to others within 3 years and accepted 47.23 million yuan in bribes.The average daily bribe is 50,000 yuan, setting a "national record". There is no exact figure to show how many car quotas Li Jiyue resold, but there is no doubt that Li Jiyue made a lot of money in the process of reselling these imported car quotas.But Li Jiyue did not forget the person who gave her profits. One day at the end of 2002, Li Jiyue asked Wu Gongyang to meet at a teahouse near the Temple of Earth, and Li Jiyue gave Wu Gongyang a paper bag.Two days later, Wu Gongyang opened the paper bag and saw that there was 200,000 yuan inside. At the end of 2003, Li Jiyue gradually withdrew from the reselling of automobile import quotas, because at that time, after China fulfilled its commitments in the WTO protocol, it gradually canceled the management measures of electromechanical product quotas, making this transaction unprofitable. Since 2004, as the coke quota was in short supply, Li Jiyue approached Wu Gongyang and said: "Now the import car quota is not in short supply in the market, but the coke quota is very hot. Can you help me find a company that makes coke?" Wu Gongyang immediately agreed Later, through friends, Wu Gongyang introduced to Li Jiyue a group company engaged in coke trading in Northeast China, and Li Jiyue contacted four companies including Shanxi Coke Group.Through the operation, Li Jiyue asked the leader to sign the application for coke quota. The approval of coke export quotas is not the authority of the deputy minister, so after Li Jiyue handed over the application documents signed by the leader to Wu Gongyang, Wu Gongyang affixed a barcode to the envelope containing the two application documents according to the internal requirements of the Ministry of Commerce, and put them in the ministerial office. in the exchange mailbox.Not long after, the application documents were approved by the Foreign Trade Department, and the Foreign Trade Department finally approved the coke quota of 40,000 tons for each company. Afterwards, one day in September 2004, Li Jiyue asked Wu Gongyang to have dinner. After the meal, Li Jiyue gave Wu Gongyang a paper bag containing 230,000 yuan.Back and forth, Wu Gongyang received 530,000 yuan from Li Jiyue. Part of the money Wu Gongyang used to decorate the new house, and part of the money was invested in the company opened by his friend. Exchange power for money, receive money from others and suffer disaster In addition to receiving 530,000 yuan from Li Jiyue, Wu Gongyang also received 680,000 yuan from four other people in the process of mediating the quota, which is equivalent to more than 1.21 million yuan.These four people approached Wu Gongyang for the car import quota. Wu Gongyang's acquaintance with Ayigul is very similar to that of Li Jiyue. Ayigul met her secretary Wu Gongyang when she was looking for the deputy minister, and they became acquainted after a few contacts.Ayi Guli was as generous as Li Jiyue, and invested heavily before asking Wu Gongyang to do something. One day in August 2002, Ayiguli asked Wu Gongyang to have dinner at the Jiangsu Building. Before leaving, Ayiguli gave Wu Gongyang a paper bag, saying that it would be used for the children to go to school in the future. Wu Gongyang refused and accepted it.Wu Gongyang took the paper bag home and saw that it was 150,000 yuan. Wu Gongyang understood that the 150,000 yuan was to pave the way. Wu Gongyang guessed correctly. At the end of 2002, Ayiguli's company applied to the Ministry of Commerce for car import quotas in the name of the Xinjiang Disabled Persons' Federation. She asked Wu Gongyang to help her.Wu Gongyang transferred Ayiguli's application documents to the deputy minister. After the deputy minister gave instructions, the documents went to the Electrical and Mechanical Department according to the normal procedure.After the incident was completed, Ayigul did not treat Wu Gongyang badly. She gave Wu Gongyang a paper bag in the name of giving toys to the children, which contained 200,000 yuan and 900 US dollars. After receiving two sums of money from Ayigul, Wu Gongyang used the first sum for stock speculation, and returned the second sum of 200,000 yuan to his buddy Guan Dahai.Previously, he had borrowed 210,000 yuan from Guan Dahai to buy a car.Guan Dahai was originally the deputy general manager of a trading company under the Ministry of Commerce, and the two met because of their work relationship. In the second half of 2002, Guan Dahai's company applied for foreign trade import and export rights. After the application documents were delivered to the Ministry of Commerce, he asked Wu Gongyang to help him coordinate the matter so that the application could be approved as soon as possible.Under Wu Gongyang's coordination, the filing date was shortened, and the company's application was quickly approved.Afterwards, Wu Gongyang received 3,000 US dollars.Later, Wu Gongyang helped Guan Dahai in many things. At the beginning of 2005, Guan Dahai, who learned that Wu Gongyang was going to renovate his house, sent 50,000 yuan. The job of a secretary is a job with hands and eyes open to the sky, and it is also shrouded in a halo of mystery in the eyes of many people. In 2003, the owner of a car sales company wanted to become the general distributor of a French car company in China. When he invited the representative of the French company to dinner, Wu Gongyang accompanied him as the full-time secretary of the Vice Minister of Commerce.Wu Gongyang received 17,000 U.S. dollars after the matter was completed. You can get 17,000 US dollars for a meal with you, which is amazing. The energy of the secretary is not only that, because he can directly contact the leader, the secretary can directly deliver materials to the leader, including some very insightful articles.When Wu Gongyang was working in the Personnel Department of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, he went to Xiamen University to recruit fresh graduates and met a young man named Ye Xiaotian. After Ye Xiaotian was assigned to work in a large state-owned enterprise under the Ministry of Commerce, he served as the deputy manager of the automobile trade department.Ye Xiaotian is very familiar with the Chinese auto market, and Wu Gongyang feels that he has a good vision for the auto trade business, so the two often discuss business issues together.Ye Xiaotian proposed that it would be more convenient to receive car quotas, and Wu Gongyang asked him to write some information about their company's car operation and show it to the department and department leaders in charge, which would help their company's image.Not long after, Ye Xiaotian wrote a report on their company's car import situation. After the report was signed and approved, it was reported to the Ministry of Commerce, and then passed on to the Deputy Minister through Wu Gongyang, who then approved it to the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. , let them be used as a reference.Objectively speaking, this report still played a certain role in Ye Xiaotian's influence in the Ministry of Commerce. Of course, Ye Xiaotian can’t forget Wu Gongyang’s support. In 2004, the last year Wu Gongyang worked as a full-time secretary, Ye Xiaotian gave Wu Gongyang 13,000 US dollars. It has always been Wu Gongyang's principle of life to do things honestly, behave clearly, and accept money from others to do things for others.However, when this principle is reflected in the public officials of a country, it often becomes the generosity of the country.It was not until he was arrested and after a long period of reflection that Wu Gongyang realized that he was committing a crime.In the court, Wu Gongyang choked up and said: "I am ashamed to stand here today. I worked very hard for the first two years as a full-time secretary. Later, due to my own reasons, my thinking changed and my legal awareness became weaker. When I was doing some things, I seldom thought of the law. After more than a year of introspection, I felt that what I did was wrong and caused great harm to the society and the country, especially the leaders and colleagues who helped me. , and brought harm to my family, so I have always pleaded guilty, and I pleaded guilty because I hope to get a little relief in my conscience. I am willing to be punished by the law, and I hope to return to society in the future and serve the society and the country Do something." After the Spring Festival in 2006, Li Jiyue confessed to Wu Gongyang after being shuanggui. On March 26, 2006, Wu Gongyang, who had just arrived at work, was taken away by the staff of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. On July 4, 2007, Wu Gongyang was sentenced to 13 years in prison by the Second Intermediate People's Court of Beijing for the crime of accepting bribes. The incident happened in Shanxi, a rope tied a bunch of grasshoppers The accident between Meng Dan and Wu Gongyang was caused by Li Jiyue's "biting", so who bit out Li Jiyue? With Li Jiyue as the center, the rent-seeking chain surrounding the issuance of import and export quotas for electromechanical and coke has two ends: one end is the foreign trade system officials who issue and manage the quotas, and the other end is the enterprises that use or resell the quotas in various places. Li Jiyue's reselling of coke quotas is mainly in Shanxi. In the Shanxi market, Li Jiyue first contacted Fan Ping. Fan Ping was the director of Shanxi Provincial Coke Group Co., Ltd., the chairman of the labor union, and the chairman and general manager of the international trade company. . In the second half of 2004, Li Jiyue planned to "resell" the 40,000-ton quota to Fan Ping. But at first, Fan Ping gave up on the deal.Her supernatural powers in Shanxi are beyond Li Jiyue's imagination.She used to be the person in charge of the Coke Export Coordination Service Center of the Shanxi Provincial Department of Commerce, which is the place where Shanxi coke companies must pass to obtain export licenses.Fan Ping despised such an unfair transaction at the time. But Li Jiyue who was rejected was not angry, she had enough patience.In the game of business, there are no permanent friends, only permanent interests.Collaboration is just a matter of timing. Sure enough, after the Ministry of Commerce withdrew the right to allocate quotas in November 2004, the channel for Fan Ping to obtain quotas from the Provincial Department of Commerce was interrupted.She had to establish a relationship with Li Jiyue again.This time, Li Jiyue smiled. During the two-year cooperation, Li Jiyue resold a total of 160,000 tons of coke quotas to a number of companies. The highest "intermediary fee" per ton was nearly 200 US dollars, and the lowest was 14 US dollars. At that time, it coincided with the multilateral negotiations between the Ministry of Commerce and the European Union on trade.Since China's coke accounts for more than 60% of the global market, domestic troubles will cause a bad cold in the international market. The "first case of coke quotas" that shocked the whole country happened by chance. Ping.Through the tracking of the company's accounts, a series of people involved in the case were drawn out, including Li Jiyue.Afterwards, Li Jiyue brought out Meng Dan and Wu Gongyang.More than 20 people involved in the coke quota fell one after another, as if a string of grasshoppers had been pulled out by a rope. Shortly after the Spring Festival in 2006, Li Jiyue was "shuanggui" and was later arrested.When the task force searched the 40-square-meter house where Li Jiyue's mother lived, they seized a large amount of cash.After taking it apart, the members of the special case team were dumbfounded: these things wrapped in ordinary paper are all RMB and US dollars. The scene was immediately sealed up and under the joint supervision of the Hebei Provincial Prosecutor and bank personnel appointed by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to handle the case.When the bank's professional banknote counters counted the scene, the prosecutors were also equipped with 24-hour on-site video.It took a week for the specially hired staff of the bank to figure out that the cash hidden in this small apartment reached more than 30 million yuan. Most of the more than 30 million yuan was obtained through reselling quotas.Every time Li Jiyue received a large amount of cash from "Xiajia", she shipped the money here.In addition to the above-mentioned cash, the task force also seized a large amount of Li Jiyue's bank deposits, foreign currency cash, gold bars, real estate, etc., totaling more than 100 million yuan.Among them, Li Jiyue owns a luxury house of more than 200 square meters, with an average price of more than 20,000 yuan per square meter. In December 2006, the People's Court of Langfang City Development Zone, Hebei Province found Li Jiyue two crimes of bribery and illegal business operations, and was sentenced to 3 years in prison, suspended for 5 years, and all personal property was confiscated.