China News Service, Zhengzhou, September 7 (Reporter Kan Li) Using family power as a link and grassroots government as a platform...Recently, the People's Court of Zhengzhou, Henan Province, Gongyi City People's Court publicly pronounced a "village official" criminal gang, 32 people As a result, he was sentenced, in which the principal offender was sentenced to 24 years.
The investigation found that in 2011, Xiao gathered supporters and was elected as the village committee director through bribery, armed parade demonstrations, beatings, and intimidation of dissidents.
Xiao uses the family power as a link, uses the grassroots government and its companies as a platform, manages the members of the organization, maintains the organizational structure, and the organization power and key members are stable, and the members have a clear division of labor, forming the nature of the underworld headed by Xiao. organization.
Since 2011, Xiao has led his subordinates to use violence or threats of violence to organize quarrels and provocations, intentionally injure, gather crowds to fight, gather crowds to disrupt social order, extortion, forced transactions, open casinos, and illegally occupy agricultural land. A total of 33 such illegal and criminal activities have seriously affected local public security.
During this period, Xiao used illegal methods such as banqueting villagers, tracking and intimidating candidates, gathering crowds to cause trouble, and other illegal methods to erode the grassroots political power and severely damage the general elections of grassroots organizations.
The underworld organization headed by Xiao Mou used the legal cloak of the grassroots government and the convenience of controlling the grassroots government to amass wealth through a series of illegal and criminal methods, illegally gaining huge amounts of economic benefits, seriously disrupting the local economy and social life order, and causing bad effects .
After the trial, the Gongyi City People’s Court in the first instance was charged with organizing and leading triad organizations, gathering crowds to fight, provoking trouble, gathering crowds to disrupt social order, deliberately hurting, illegally occupying agricultural land, extortion, forced transactions, opening casinos, and occupational occupation. Xiao Mou was sentenced to 24 years of imprisonment, four years of deprivation of political rights, and the confiscation of all personal property and a fine of RMB 670,000. The other 31 defendants were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from one to 20 years. , And different criminal penalties such as deprivation of political rights and fines.
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