China News Service, November 30. According to the WeChat official account of "Shandong Gaofa", at 9:30 on November 30, the Intermediate People’s Court of Dezhou City, Shandong Province, through a remote video system, publicly pronounced the original deputy of the Chinese Calligraphers Association in the first instance. Chairman Zhao Changqing was sentenced to 12 years and six months in prison for accepting bribes and fined RMB 2.4 million.
Zhao Changqing's stolen money and its fruits were confiscated according to law and turned over to the state treasury.
Image source: "Shandong Gaofa" WeChat public account
The court found that from 2006 to 2019, the defendant Zhao Changqing successively took advantage of his positions as Secretary of the Party Group of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, and Vice Chairman of the Chinese Calligraphers Association to help others in the approval of China As a member of the Book Association, elected as a director of the China Book Association, and coordinated project cooperation, I directly or through others received 12 related personnel's property, which was equivalent to RMB 24,866,552.46.
The court found that the defendant Zhao Changqing, as a national worker, used the convenience of his position to illegally accept other people's property and seek benefits for others, and his behavior constituted the crime of accepting bribes.
After Zhao Changqing arrived at the case, he was able to truthfully confess his crimes, voluntarily confessed some of the facts of the bribery crimes that the case-handling agency has not yet mastered, pleaded guilty and repented, actively returned the stolen money, and all the stolen money has been recovered. Lighter punishment.
Based on the defendant Zhao Changqing's crime facts, nature, circumstances and the degree of harm to society, the court made the above judgment.