On October 28th, the Fujian Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection reported four incidents of party members and cadres acting as "protective umbrellas" through its official website.
The report mentioned that since 2011, criminal organizations headed by Zhou Lianyou have used "loan usury, illegal debt collection, and extortion" in many places in Nanping to do evil and oppress the people, seriously disrupting the order of local social life.
In October 2014, when Huang Shuo was the deputy procurator-general of the People’s Procuratorate of Jianyang District, Nanping City, he participated in the command and planning in the case of Zhou Lianyou’s group smashing the sales department of a real estate project, mediating and coordinating, and evading the public security organs for Zhou Lianyou and others Crack down on providing help, so that they are not held criminally responsible, and are suspected of sheltering and condoning organized crimes of a triad nature.
Huang Shuo also has other serious violations of discipline and law.
In July 2020, Huang Shuo was expelled from the party and the suspected crime was transferred to the judicial organs for handling.
In addition, the discipline inspection and supervision organs have conducted a thorough investigation of the "corruption and umbrella" issues behind Zhou Lianyou's criminal case. So far, 24 party members and cadres and public officials have been investigated and dealt with the corruption and "protective umbrella" issues.
The Paper noted that on September 30, the Wuyishan City People’s Court publicly sentenced the defendant Zhou Lianyou and other 13 persons for the crime of organizing, leading, and participating in a triad organization, intentionally destroying property, provoking trouble, illegal detention, and illegal trespass. The main criminal Zhou Lianyou was sentenced to 22 years’ imprisonment, deprived of political rights for two years, and all personal property confiscated in the case of residential crime, false litigation, extortion, fraud, loan fraud, and money laundering; the remaining 12 defendants The men were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from sixteen years and nine months to nine months, and fined.
The trial found that since 2011, the defendant Zhou Lianyou, relying on Nanping Jianyang District Rongxin Consulting Service Co., Ltd., carried out illegal usury in the area of Jianyang District and Wuyishan City in the name of an individual and Rongxin Company. The underworld organization with it as its organization and leader carries out illegal and criminal activities such as deliberate destruction of property, provocation, illegal detention, illegal intrusion into houses, false lawsuits, extortion, and fraud.
The other three cases notified by the Fujian Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection were: the former party secretary and director of the Ningde Water Conservancy Bureau Xu Jian acted as the "protective umbrella", the former deputy head of the Fuzhou Public Security Bureau Supervision Detachment Zhang Qitong acted as the "protective umbrella" and Putianxian Lu Jingui, the former party secretary and director of the Youxian Emergency Management Bureau, acted as the "protective umbrella" issue.
The Fujian Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection requested that the majority of party members, cadres and public officials in the province should draw lessons from the above-mentioned typical cases. The alarm bells should be ringing long and they should be taken as warnings.
At present, the special struggle is at a critical juncture of decisive victory and final battle. Party organizations at all levels in the province must benchmark against the requirements of the Party Central Committee, further enhance the sense of responsibility, mission, and urgency, strengthen the "four consciousnesses" and be firm. "Four self-confidence", achieve "two safeguards", and earnestly assume the main responsibility of the special struggle.
The province's discipline inspection and supervision organs insist on keeping their determination, standards and strengths unchanged, resolutely and thoroughly promote the "six cleansing" actions, fighting the "umbrella" with iron fists and breaking the "net" with swords.
To win the "closing battle", the main attack direction of "Umbrella Breaking the Net" shall remain unchanged. The "big umbrella" and "small umbrella" shall be attacked together, and the "black umbrella" and "bad umbrella" shall be checked together. Clenched fists and hides The dormant big "umbrella" and the big "net" focus their efforts; we must insist on seeking truth from facts, strictly complying with regulations and laws, and facts are the top priority and evidence is king. One is one, two is two. "The problem is neither overthrowing the numbers, nor letting a fish slip through the net, so as to achieve accurate identification and accurate handling, and achieve the unity of political effects, disciplinary effects, and social effects; attention must be paid to both the symptoms and the root causes, and the role of investigation and handling of cases should be used to persist Build while building, comprehensively sort out mature experience and practices in clue handling, case investigation, and cooperation, consolidate and deepen the results of special struggles, and build a normal and long-term system.
The Paper Journalist Zhong Yuhao