Tan Jun, Chief Reporter of Surging News

  For 19 years, Zhang Maocai, former deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Shanxi Provincial People's Congress, was promoted from the position of deputy director of the Shanxi Provincial Press and Publication Bureau. He successively served as the secretary of the municipal party committee in Linfen, Yuncheng, and Jincheng. Everywhere, there is his driver Qiao Lizhi.

Qiao Lizhi's Judgment Source: Screenshot from the Judge Document Network

  After Zhang Mao's dismissal, Qiao Lizhi was also investigated.

  On June 4, China's Judgment Documents Network published the judgment document of Qiao Lizhi's case. The second-instance ruling of Shanxi Taiyuan Intermediate Court found that Qiao Lizhi committed a crime of bribery with influence and sentenced him to 7 years in prison.

  The court found that from 2009 to 2016, Qiao Lizhi used his identity as a driver of Zhang Maocai to help others to collect hundreds of millions of yuan worth of projects, and received a total of 3.758308 million in benefit fees.

Shanxi senior officials fell into disrepair, and the driver who had followed him for 19 years was arrested for taking bribes

  On March 2, 2019, the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced that Zhang Maocai, the former deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Shanxi Provincial People's Congress, was involved in serious disciplinary and law violations and was subject to disciplinary review and supervision investigation by the National Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.

  The judgment document of the Qiao Lizhi case shows that on March 29, 2019, the Taiyuan Municipal Supervision Committee notified the discipline inspection department of Qiao Lizhi’s unit, and the discipline inspection department of the unit sent someone to accompany Qiao Lizhi to the Taiyuan Supervision Committee for investigation. At the time of the incident, the investigating authorities had grasped Qiao Lizhi's criminal clues. At that time, Qiao Lizhi was the deputy director of the marketing department of Shanxi Coal Transportation Group Jinhua Logistics Service Co., Ltd. On the same day, Qiao Lizhi was retained by the Taiyuan City Supervision Committee, detained on June 14 and arrested on June 25.

  The court found that in the 19 years from 1992 to 2011, Qiao Lizhi served as the driver of Zhang Maocai, who had served as deputy director of the Shanxi Provincial Press and Publication Bureau, secretary of the Linfen Municipal Party Committee, secretary of the Yuncheng Committee, and secretary of the Jincheng Committee. Qiao Lizhi took advantage of this identity and Zhang Maocai's influence and was still taking bribes until 2018.

  The court found that from 2009 to 2016, Qiao Lizhi used his identity as a driver of Zhang Maocai, by greeting He Mou and Li Mou, then chairman of Shanxi Orchid Coal Industry Group Co., Ltd., for Fumou's contract with the orchid group's subordinates. The Haitang home project developed by the unit, Shanxi Boyi Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., has two phases of Phase I, two phases of Phase I and II, and a phase II of Phase II. In the above-mentioned project bidding, Fumou all adopted unfair competition means to accompany the bid, and the winning bid price totaled about 360 million yuan.

  According to the agreement between Qiao Lizhi and Fu Mou, after Qiao Lizhi helped the winning bid, he paid the benefit fee of 2 to 3% of the bid price of Qiao Lizhi. From 2009 to 2018, Qiao Lizhi successively received and paid a certain amount of benefits of 3.758308 million yuan in personal construction, purchase, decoration and other matters.

Zhang Maocai took up many positions, was criticized and severely damaged the political ecology of the area where he served

  On June 20, 2019, the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection once again informed that Zhang Mao, the former deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Shanxi Provincial People's Congress, was expelled from the party.

  According to the report, Zhang Maocai lost his ideals and beliefs, was not loyal to the party, was not honest, confronted the organization's review, failed to report on personal matters as required, and did not truthfully explain the issues during the organization's conversation; violation of the spirit of the eight central regulations, acceptance may affect fair execution Banquets for official business, receiving gifts in violation of regulations; violating organizational principles, long-term use of power or position influence to provide assistance for the promotion and job transfer of others and receiving huge amounts of property, severely destroying the political ecology of the serving area; without discipline and legal awareness, the company Power, as a tool for personal gain, engages in power-money transactions with private business owners; family style is not right.

  According to the "Regulations on the Disciplinary Measures of the Communist Party of China" and the "Monitoring Law of the People's Republic of China" and other relevant regulations, after the study of the Standing Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the approval of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Zhang Maocai was dismissed from his party membership; Illegal income; refer the suspected crime to the procuratorial organ for review and prosecution according to law, and the property involved is transferred with the case.

  According to the public resume, Zhang Maocai was born in September 1954 and graduated from Shanxi Normal University. He worked in the Department of Organization of Xin County Local Committee of Shanxi Province, the Education Bureau of Xin County District, and the Organization Department of Xinzhou Local Committee in early years. He was transferred to Shanxi Province in 1985. Director of the cadre department of the Propaganda Department of the Committee, and deputy director of the Provincial Press and Publication Bureau in 1992. In 1999, Zhang Maocai transferred to Linfen City, where he served successively as a member of the Prefectural Committee, Minister of Organization, Deputy Secretary of the Linfen City Committee, Mayor, and Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee. In 2006, Zhang Maocai was transferred to the secretary of the Yuncheng City Committee. Two years later, he was transferred to the secretary of the Jincheng City Committee and was in charge of Jincheng for 4 years.

  In January 2012, Zhang Maocai was elected vice chairman of the Shanxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and was promoted to the rank of deputy minister. A year later, Zhang Mao was appointed Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Shanxi Provincial People's Congress until he was investigated.

  "Mobile position, iron driver". A statement issued by the Jincheng City Committee Office showed that when Zhang Maocai was the secretary of the Jincheng City Committee from January 2008 to December 2011, Qiao Lizhi, who followed Zhang Maocai as the driver, did not transfer his personnel and salary relations to the original Jincheng City Committee Office and Jincheng. Municipal People's Government Organ Affairs Bureau.

Zhang Maocai was accused of taking bribes exceeding 70 million

  After the public prosecution of the Qiao Lizhi case, the People’s Court of Yingze District in Taiyuan City considered that Qiao Lizhi had a close relationship with the driver of the national staff and used the convenience conditions formed by the power or status of the national staff to pass the duties of other national staff. The behavior mentioned above helps the trustee to seek improper benefits, and the amount of bribery received is particularly huge. Its behavior constitutes the crime of using influence to accept bribes.

  On December 20, 2019, the People's Court of Yingze District, Taiyuan City, the first-instance judgment defendant Qiao Lizhi was convicted of using influence to accept bribes and sentenced to seven years in prison with a fine of RMB 500,000; the seized money was RMB 375.8308 and continued The proceeds from recovering the stolen money involved in the case shall be confiscated and turned over to the State Treasury.

  After sentencing in the first instance, Qiao Lizhi appealed. On April 26, 2020, the second instance of the Taiyuan Intermediate Court ruled that the appeal was rejected and the original sentence was upheld.

  According to public reports, Zhang Maocai's bribery case was opened for trial in the first instance of the Intermediate People's Court of Zibo City, Shandong Province on October 17, 2019. The court declared adjournment, and sentencing at a specified time. At present, the court has not notified the judgment of the case.

  According to the accusation of the People's Procuratorate of Zibo City, Shandong Province: from 2002 to 2018, Zhang Maocai successively used as mayor of Linfen City, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, Secretary of the Yuncheng City Committee, Secretary of the Jincheng City Committee, Deputy Chairman of the Shanxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Deputy Chairman of the Shanxi Provincial People's Congress The convenience of the director and other duties, or the convenience conditions formed by his power and status, through the behavior of the staff of other countries, provide assistance to others in matters such as business management, project contracting, job promotion and job transfer, directly or Illegal receipt of other people’s property through their relatives amounted to more than RMB 74.44 million.

  Peng Mei News previously reported that the relevant person in charge of the Shandong Procuratorate disclosed that Zhang Maocai's bribery case during the trial of the Zibo City Intermediate Court. During the prosecutor's reading of the public prosecution opinion, Zhang Maocai was unable to cry. In the final statement, he repeatedly thanked the procuratorate for his educational rescue and said, "No matter No matter how many years you are sentenced, you will not be appealed."