On March 16, the Supreme People's Procuratorate (hereinafter referred to as the Supreme People's Procuratorate) disclosed for the first time on its official Weibo account the details of the handling of the case of Yuan Renguo, the former chairman of Moutai Group.

1588 pieces of gold products, etc., the investigators counted them one day and one night

　　On September 23, 2021, the Guiyang Intermediate Court of Guizhou Province made a first-instance verdict on the bribery case against Yuan Renguo, the former chairman of Moutai Group.

　　The video released by the Supreme People's Procuratorate shows that during the process of handling the case, more than 40 investigators counted 1,588 pieces of gold products, watches, jewelry, calligraphy and paintings from Yuan Ren's country, including many rare items such as ivory, as well as cash in RMB, US dollars, and pounds. After waiting for a while, it took the investigators a day and a night to complete the inventory.

　　The video shows that the Guiyang People's Procuratorate is responsible for the review and prosecution of the case.

"This is a very complicated case. The time span is very long and the number of cases is very large." The investigator said, "Although he (Yuan Renguo) is only a bribery offense, his bribery method is relatively complicated. The entire case file About 100 copies."

　　After review, it was found that the entire case file highlighted the fact that Yuan Renguo made use of the approval power of special resources to provide help to illegal dealers in the business of Moutai liquor in violation of regulations.

Yuan Renguo took bribes of up to 110 million yuan from 1994 until his case was committed.

　　According to public information, Yuan Renguo was born in October 1956, a native of Renhuai, Guizhou.

　　On the morning of September 23, 2021, the Guiyang Intermediate People's Court of Guizhou Province publicly sentenced Yuan Renguo, former deputy director of the Economic Committee of the 12th Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, in the case of accepting bribes, and sentenced the defendant Yuan Renguo to life imprisonment and deprivation of political rights for life. , and confiscated all personal property; Yuan Renguo's bribe-obtained property and its fruits shall be recovered in accordance with the law and turned over to the state treasury.

　　After the trial, it was found that: from 1994 to 2018, the defendant Yuan Renguo successively served as the deputy director of Kweichow Moutai Distillery, and the deputy general manager, vice chairman, general manager and chairman of China Kweichow Moutai Distillery (Group) Co., Ltd. , Chairman of Kweichow Moutai Co., Ltd., etc., to provide assistance to others in matters such as obtaining Moutai liquor distribution rights, household distribution, and increasing Moutai liquor supply, and illegally accepting property from others amounting to RMB 112.9 million Yu Yuan.

　　The Guiyang Intermediate People's Court held that the defendant Yuan Renguo's behavior constituted the crime of accepting bribes.

In view of Yuan Renguo’s attempt to accept bribes of 20.5 million yuan; he was able to truthfully confess his crimes after he arrived at the case, and took the initiative to confess most of the facts of the crime of accepting bribes that the case-handling authorities had not yet grasped; The circumstances of a lighter punishment may be determined at the discretion, and may be given a lighter punishment in accordance with the law.

The court made the above judgment.

case backtracking

　　Yuan Renguo was investigated, starting with Wang Xiaoguang, former member of the Standing Committee of the Guizhou Provincial Party Committee and former vice-governor.

　　On March 31, 2018, with the approval of the Party Central Committee, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission filed a case for investigation and investigation on Wang Xiaoguang, former member of the Standing Committee of the Guizhou Provincial Party Committee and former vice governor of Guizhou Province, for suspected serious violations of discipline and law.

After investigation, Wang Xiaoguang violated the spirit of the eight central regulations, engaged in privileges, and drank Moutai with public funds in violation of regulations; used his powers to provide assistance to relevant enterprises in contracting projects and agreed to accept favors, and illegally engaged in profit-making activities and obtained huge profits.

　　In the anti-corruption TV feature film "National Supervision", it was disclosed that a house in Wang Xiaoguang's family was full of Maotai liquor, and the number reached more than 4,000 bottles.

Before falling from the horse, Wang Xiaoguang felt that there were too many famous wines at home and it was unsafe. In order to sell the stolen goods, he poured the vintage Moutai into the sewer of his home in batches.

Seeing Wang Xiaoguang bending over to pour the wine in the bathroom, his wife sighed, "I can't throw it away, I can't drink it, I can't give it away, and I can't finish it. If I knew it earlier, why bother."

　　As Wang Xiaoguang was investigated and punished, leading cadres used Maotai liquor for personal gain and other "Maotai liquor chaos" gradually surfaced.

It is disclosed in the film that Wang Xiaoguang has also been in the business of selling Moutai liquor for a long time.

Through Yuan Renguo, the general manager of Moutai Group at the time, and others, he set up four Moutai franchises for his family and relatives, and made a profit of more than 40 million yuan in seven years.

　　In May 2018, Yuan Renguo resigned as Chairman, Director, Legal Representative and related positions of the Board of Directors of Moutai Distillery.

　　In October 2018, with the approval of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Guizhou Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision conducted a review and investigation on Yuan Renguo, the former deputy secretary and chairman of the Maotai Group Party Committee, suspected of serious violations of discipline and law.

　　In May 2019, Yuan Renguo was expelled from the party and from public office, and the suspected crime was transferred to the procuratorate for review and prosecution according to law.

On June 27, the People's Procuratorate of Guiyang City filed a public prosecution with the Guiyang Intermediate People's Court against Yuan Renguo's alleged bribery case.

　　On December 27, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism released the "Announcement on the Cancellation of Qiao Yueliang and other 5 Representatives of National Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritors" (hereinafter referred to as the "Announcement") on the official website.

Yuan Renguo was disqualified as a representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage.