China News Service, Shanghai, August 12 (Reporter Li Shuzheng) Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People's Court publicly pronounced on the case of bribery by the former party secretary and president of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Shanghai branch on the 12th.

  The court sentenced Gu Guoming to life imprisonment for accepting bribes, depriving him of political rights for life, and confiscating all personal property; the illegal gains from accepting bribes were recovered and turned over to the state treasury.

  The court found that from June 2002 to June 2019, Gu Guoming successively served as the vice president, president, and party secretary of the Shanghai Branch of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited, in charge of credit approval department and credit management. Department, preside over the work of the whole bank, etc.

From 2005 to 2019, Gu Guoming took advantage of the above-mentioned position to provide assistance to relevant units and individuals in handling financing loans, project funding, project contracting and other matters, seeking benefits, and the total bribes received were equivalent to more than RMB 136 million (see below) The currencies involved are the same).

  After the defendant Gu Guoming arrived at the case, in addition to truthfully confessing the criminal facts involving bribery of RMB 5,861,300 that the case-handling agency had known, he also voluntarily confessed other criminal facts of bribery totaling more than RMB 131 million that the case-handling agency had not known.

During the trial of this case, Gu Guoming's illegal gains from bribery have basically been recovered.

  The court held that Gu Guoming, as a national worker, used the convenience of his position to provide assistance to relevant units and individuals in handling financing loans, project funding, contracting projects, etc., seeking benefits, and illegally receiving money and property from others. The act has constituted the crime of accepting bribes, and the amount is extremely large, and the interests of the country and the people have suffered particularly heavy losses. According to the law, they should be sentenced to life imprisonment or death, and confiscated property.

Gu Guoming has a confession, sincere confession and repentance. Some of the bribery crimes were attempted, and the stolen money and stolen goods have been recovered. He was punished lightly in accordance with the law, and based on the facts, nature, circumstances and degree of social harm in the case, he made the above in accordance with the law. judgment.

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