China News Service, Haikou, December 4th. On December 4, Zhang Jiahui, the former vice president of the Hainan Higher People's Court, was sentenced in the first instance of bribery, administrative ruling, and fraud.

Zhang Jiahui was sentenced to 18 years in prison.

  On December 4, the Hainan Provincial No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court publicly sentenced Zhang Jiahui, the former vice president of the Hainan Higher People’s Court, in the case of bribery, administrative ruling, and fraud, and sentenced the defendant Zhang Jiahui to 15 years’ imprisonment and fined him for taking bribes. RMB 3.5 million; sentenced to five years imprisonment for administrative violation of the law; sentenced to ten years imprisonment for fraud and a fine of RMB 500,000; decided to execute 18 years imprisonment and fined RMB four million dollar.

The property and fruits obtained from Zhang Jiahui's crime shall be recovered and turned over to the state treasury.

  The trial found that from 2006 to 2019, the defendant Zhang Jiahui took advantage of his position as president of the first civil trial division, member of the adjudication committee, member of the party group, and vice president of the Hainan Higher People’s Court, by greeting him, etc. For relevant units and individuals to seek benefits in the trial of the case, directly or through others illegally received a total of RMB 43.75 million.

From 2015 to 2016, the defendant Zhang Jiahui, as a judicial officer, underpaid or failed to pay the increase fee in order to make the Hainan Dinas Investment Co., Ltd., which her husband Liu Yuansheng actually controlled, instigated or instigated others to deliberately violate Facts and laws were in vain judgments, causing the company to pay less than RMB 46.21 million in capacity expansion fees.

In June 2001, the defendant Zhang Jiahui and his wife fictitiously helped others to untangle their relationship and mitigate the criminal penalty, defrauding the relevant personnel of property worth more than RMB 1.43 million.

  The No. 1 Intermediate People's Court of Hainan Province held that the actions of the defendant Zhang Jiahui constituted the crime of accepting bribes, the crime of administrative ruling, and the crime of fraud.

The amount of bribery and fraud Zhang Jiahui received was extremely large, and the circumstances of administrative violation of the law were particularly serious and should be punished according to law.

Since Zhang Jiahui was able to truthfully confess his crimes after arriving at the case, he proactively confessed most of the facts about bribery that the case-handling agency has not yet grasped. He confessed the circumstances, actively returned the stolen goods, and required his relatives to return the full amount of the bribery, fraudulent proceeds and administration with personal and company assets. For the loss of the capacity increase fee caused to the state by the judgement in violation of the law, the voluntary plead guilty and punished, there are statutory and discretionary light punishment circumstances, and the lighter punishment can be imposed in accordance with the law.

The court then made the above judgment.

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