Mistakes in life, the presiding judge walks to the dock

Analysis of Lu Hongmin, former member of the party group and vice president of the Jilin Higher People’s Court, on serious violations of discipline and laws

  Lu Hongmin, male, Han nationality, born in June 1962, started working in July 1986, joined the Communist Party of China in December 1989, doctorate in law.

In May 2000, he served as the head of the trial supervision division of the Jilin City Intermediate People’s Court; in August 2001, he served as the vice president of the Jilin City Intermediate People’s Court; in April 2005, he served as the vice president (director of the Jilin City Intermediate People’s Court) In December 2007, he served as the president of the Songyuan Intermediate People’s Court; in September 2012, he served as a member of the full-time adjudication committee of the Jilin Provincial Higher People’s Court (deputy director level); in March 2015, he served as the Jilin Provincial Higher People’s Court Member of the Party Group, Vice President, and Member of the Judicial Committee.

In December 2017, he served as a member of the Party Leadership Group, Vice President, and Member of the Judicial Committee of the Higher People's Court of Jilin Province, and a first-level senior judge.

  On April 23, 2020, with the approval of the Jilin Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection decided to file a case for investigation and investigation of Lu Hongmin, the former vice-president of the Jilin Provincial Higher People's Court, on suspicion of serious violations of discipline and law, and took lien measures on the same day.

In November 2020, Lu Hongmin was expelled from the party and expelled from public office.

  On September 27, 2020, the Jilin Provincial Supervisory Committee transferred the suspected bribery case of Lu Hongmin to the People's Procuratorate of Jilin Province for review and prosecution, and the People's Procuratorate of Jilin Province designated Baishan City People's Procuratorate for review and prosecution on the same day.

On November 24, Baishan City People's Procuratorate filed a public prosecution with Baishan City Intermediate People's Court.

  As a trial expert who grew up from an ordinary judge, Lu Hongmin is well versed in trial rules, good at applying the law, and adept at adjudicating complex disputes. If you make a wrong choice between righteousness, advancement and retreat, you will personally send yourself to the dock.

Laziness in self-cultivation, the original intention gradually changed

Ideological decline loses principles and becomes a "fencer" of the review committee

  In the face of temptation, whether to choose to degenerate or to continue to persevere, the root is not in the choice itself, but in the determination of the chooser.

Many violations of discipline and law and crimes seem to have occurred in the last minute, but they are all due to insufficient personal training, loss of original intention, and insufficient concentration.

Lu Hongmin is no exception.

  In June 62, Lv Hongmin was born into an ordinary peasant family in Lai County, Baicheng City, Jilin Province.

After graduating from the Law Department of Jilin University in 1986, he has been working in the court system. He successively served as the vice president of the Intermediate Court of Jilin City, the president of the Songyuan Intermediate People's Court, and a member and vice president of the full-time adjudication committee of the Provincial Higher Court.

During his tenure in the Intermediate People's Court of Jilin City, Lu Hongmin was diligent and motivated, and even took the initiative to deal with many mass incidents such as the transfer of municipal funeral homes and petitions by AIDS groups through legal means. He was affirmed and praised by the party committee and the people.

However, after he became the dean of the Songyuan City Intermediate Court, Lu Hongmin relaxed his party spirit and failed to clean up the dust on his ideology. His ideals and beliefs gradually wavered.

The ideological decline made Lv Hongmin gradually lost in power and law.

  Lu Hongmin confessed: "After working in Songyuan, I relaxed my political theory study, my ideals and beliefs were shaken, right and wrong ideas were reversed, and he gradually violated the party oath of'fighting for communism for life' and turned into a defector. The inner wavering and convulsion. Depravity seems to be a momentary decision, but in fact it is a long and painful process of degeneration. "From good to good, from evil to collapse", it was absent from the study of political theory and the tempering of ideals and beliefs, which made my political determination gradually. Loss, the more concentration loss, the more slack in learning and self-restraint, which made me enter a vicious circle, and quickly fell into the abyss of desire." "The loss of ideals and beliefs made me a'body', in theory At the Center Group and the Democratic Life Conference, I became less confident in my speech because I knew that I was insincere. Changes in my thoughts would inevitably lead to directional problems and would inevitably lead me on a path of no return."

  After working in the Provincial Higher People's Court, Lu Hongmin's thinking further declined and his judgment of things completely lost principles. This can be seen from his performance on the review committee.

He changed his previous style of insisting on facts and laws and expressing his opinions outspoken. On many occasions in the review committee, he saw that the dean held views contrary to his own, so he changed his initial position at the final vote and voted for the dean. The supportive opinions stunned the members of the review committee present.

For this reason, Lu Hongmin has a nickname-the "fencer" of the review committee.

  After Lu Hongmin took up the leadership position, he neglected political study and relaxed his party spirit, which eventually led to a decline in his thoughts and shaken ideals and beliefs.

This paved the way for him to lose his stamina in the face of various temptations and to give up resistance under the "sugar-coated cannonball" attack.

Confined to personal love

"The person in the case" is playing with justice because of friendship and family affection

  Love and law are another multiple choice question that Lu Hongmin faces.

Under the instigation of friendship and the coercion of family affection, he relied on his proficiency in his business, used the law as a tool for personal gain, and quietly made a choice between "love and law" by thinking that he was "selfishness and not betraying the law."

  Lu Hongmin has a strange character.

He is so quiet, he likes to pour himself and he doesn't like to socialize.

Colleagues commented on him as "the man in a case", the "Belikov" of the court system.

He is not good at communicating with people. With the exception of a few "little followers", he never eats with other colleagues in private, and even brushes shoulders with colleagues in the corridors of his work. He does not say hello to colleagues. As if always living in his own closed world.

He also has very little socializing outside of eight hours. He has no other hobbies. There are a lot of legal business books at home. Researching legal provisions and trial business are his greatest hobbies.

  It is difficult for such a person to associate him with corrupt elements.

However, his legal balance quickly tilted in front of family and friendship.

  Friendship is difficult.

Lawyer Zhang Sui (pseudonym) found Lu Hongmin shortly after Lu Hongmin arrived as the president of Songyuan Intermediate Court and asked him to help contract legal services.

Zhang Sui was originally a judge of the Jilin Intermediate Court, and Lu Hongmin was always in charge of Zhang Sui during his tenure in the Jilin Intermediate Court.

Because Lv Hongmin was not good at communication, Zhang Sui often gave Lv Hongmin some advice on getting along with other hospital leaders. Some leaders of Jilin City were sick and hospitalized because Zhang Sui accompanied Lv Hongmin to visit.

Gradually, Zhang Sui went to help take care of trivial matters such as changing light bulbs, paying utility bills, or visiting relatives and friends from other places to arrange meals at Lu Hongmin's home.

Lu Hongmin's contacts are very narrow, and Zhang Sui is one of his few friends in the court system.

  Not long after Lu Hongmin came to Songyuan Intermediate Court as the president, Zhang resigned casually to become a lawyer.

Seeing his friend resign to "surrender" to himself, Lu Hongmin felt that this made him unable to refuse.

Therefore, Lu Hongmin used the influence of the Dean of the Intermediate Court to help Zhang Sui contact many companies and government departments as legal counsel.

After Zhang Sui gained a firm foothold, as the number of cases represented by the court increased, in order to win the case, he made further requests and asked Lu Hongmin to help him greet and try his best to win the cases he represented.

At the beginning, Lu Hongmin was struggling in his heart, but he felt that he was proficient in the trial business and his professional knowledge was sufficient to provide legal support for Zhang Sui's litigation claims.

As a result, he has repeatedly intervened in the case represented by Zhang Sui in violation of regulations.

So far, Lu Hongmin has made the wrong choice between "love and law."

  Family love is hard to refuse.

Lv Hongmin is extremely afraid of being inside, and the coercion of his strong wife Tian is also a main reason for Lv Hongmin to embark on the path of corruption.

Lu Hongmin's wife Tian was originally a law teacher in a college in Jilin City and worked as a part-time lawyer before being transferred to a college in Changchun as a professor.

The investigation revealed that during Lu Hongmin’s tenure as the president of the Songyuan Intermediate Court, some judges of the Songyuan Intermediate Court had only one way to obtain Lu Hongmin’s approval or work mistakes to obtain Lu Hongmin’s forgiveness, which was to "find Professor Tian." The last facts also proved this method. Sure enough, Tian’s comments and Lu Hongmin complied with all of them.

  In order to be taken care of the case, many people approached Tian through the leaders or colleagues of Tian's unit, and then arranged Lv Hongmin to greet the relevant case-handling unit through Tian.

Among the more than ten facts about Lu Hongmin's acceptance of bribes, many are related to Tian.

Tian encourages Lu Hongmin's greed, and takes Lu Hongmin step by step toward the abyss of corruption.

In addition, Lu Hongmin was asked by his sons, nephews and other relatives to intervene in a number of cases, ranging from civil to criminal, from trial to execution, from the provincial high court to the basic courts.

  Lu Hongmin is a doctor of law and has many years of front-line civil trial work experience. He is one of the only two national civil trial experts in Jilin Province. His profound legal knowledge and extremely high legal literacy have made Lu Hongmin become the province's civil trial business Authority.

This enables him to find legal support for the requesting party’s claims, and then seek a result of victory.

  After accepting Zhang Suihe Tian and others’ entrustment, Lu Hongmin used two methods to intervene in the case: he took the opportunity to hear case reports and directly proposed the case on the basis of detailed analysis of the legal basis and application of the law. Handling opinions; for cases that are not within the scope of their own supervision, the case handler is required to report the case in the name of the president’s supervision, and to clarify his “view” to the case handler, thereby affecting the outcome of the case.

Lu Hongmin called himself this "very clever method" as "favoritism and not betraying the law." Not only the outsiders can't see the traces, even the insiders can't see the flaws.

He played with laws and game procedures, thinking that he had made every illegal intervention to the deepest and impeccable degree.

  As Lu Hongmin himself said, “I have always lived in my own illusory world. I feel that although I accept the request of one party to make a biased judgment, I can find a legal basis for the judgment. When I struggle with internal conflicts, I feel I also often comfort myself with just the result, thinking that it’s perfect, but in fact it’s a steal."

  There is no greater danger than covering the world.

It is precisely because of his profound knowledge of legal trials that Lv Hongmin made the wrong choice between "love and law" and wandered openly on the edge of the law.

However, precisely because of the lack of fear and caution, the time to fall from a height to the abyss is not far away.

Indulge in self-interest

Infected with the "virus" of greed, using power to make money has become the "first priority"

  Lu Hongmin relied on his proficiency in the law. In order to maintain family and friendship, he gradually lost his awe of the law.

Once party members and cadres lose their sense of reverence, they lose their positions and principles. What follows is the degeneration of ideas, the abuse of power, and the corruption of life. They naturally become "slit eggs" and "flies" will When swarms, the "virus" of greed will gradually break out.

  Initially infected with the virus.

Although Zhang Sui followed Lv Hongmin from Jilin to Songyuan, but before Lv Hongmin took office in the Provincial Higher Court, he and Zhang Sui had no major economic contacts.

In September 2012, after arriving at the Provincial High Court, Lu Hongmin’s psychology changed further. In his own words, “I feel like an expert in trial business, and I try my best to restrain my desires, but I will retire within a few years. You have to think about your future and save some money for your granddaughter.” Driven by this kind of thinking, his principles of discipline and bottom line have completely fallen, and the "friendship" between him and Zhang Sui has also changed.

  After Lu Hongmin took office in the Provincial High Court, Zhang Sui followed him to Changchun City to expand his business.

With his authority in the industry, Lv Hongmin helped Zhang Sui enter the Bankruptcy Law Research Institute of Jilin Provincial Law Society, thereby establishing Zhang Sui's position in this field.

Then he began to take advantage of his position in charge of bankruptcy liquidation cases to help Zhang Sui's law firm undertake bankruptcy business.

Lu Hongmin saw that the cost of handling bankruptcy cases by law firms is very low, but a case can have millions or even tens of millions of dollars in income, and his psychology is even more imbalanced.

He then repeatedly hinted at Zhang Sui.

Zhang Sui naturally understood it and offered to give Lu Hongmin a "commission" based on 30% of the law firm's bankruptcy case income. At the time of the case, he had paid more than 1.1 million yuan to Lu Hongmin, and more than 5 million yuan had not been paid.

  In addition, Lu Hongmin tried his best to take advantage of Zhang everywhere.

Lu Hongmin wanted to exercise, so he took Zhang Sui to the gym and asked Zhang Sui to apply for his fitness card; occasionally he would call Zhang Sui to pay for him when he went out to eat; Arrange for Zhang Sui to pay for him; even if his wife Tian was hospitalized in Shanghai, he directly arranged for Zhang Sui to accompany him and asked Zhang Sui to pay for transportation and medical expenses.

  The virus broke out.

With the continuous expansion of greed, Lu Hongmin's life has gradually become dislocated and "derailed".

From the perspective of the scope of bribery, he has gradually expanded from strictly restricting "insiders" such as Zhang Sui and his wife Tian to people introduced by insiders.

In 2017, under the introduction of Zhang Sui, Lu Hongmin provided assistance to the trial of a real estate company in Changchun City where Zhang Sui served as legal counsel. As soon as the judgment of the case came into effect, Lu Hongmin called Li, the person in charge of the company, and said that the match was made. The company developed a residential area and told Li that "it can be cheaper, but don't violate the regulations."

After Li knew it, he asked Lu Hongmin and his relatives to buy three houses in the community, which were verified to be more than 900,000 yuan below the market price.

  Very sick.

During his tenure as Vice President of the Provincial Higher People's Court, Lu Hongmin provided assistance in the trial and execution of two civil cases involving a target value of more than 500 million yuan in a rural bank in Songyuan City. After checking the property, Lu Hongmin and his wife Tian didn't take a fancy to it.

After that, Lu Hongmin directly said to Zhou: "You can bring some cash when you come back." Therefore, from 2015 to 2018, Zhou directly gave Lu Hongmin a total of more than 2 million yuan in cash.

  During Lu Hongmin's tenure as vice president of the Provincial Higher People's Court, Xiu asked Lu Hongmin for help in a case of owing wages to migrant workers.

The case involved more than 130 migrant workers, and Xiu did not charge agency fees.

This made Lu Hongmin think: he is not making money, can he give me money?

Lu Hongmin did not agree.

After that, Xiu gave him $50,000.

After seeing Qian, he changed his attitude and agreed to help pay attention to the case.

At this time, Lu Hongmin's soul has been completely occupied by selfish desires, and the use of judicial power for personal gain has become his "first priority." The belief of the Communists has long disappeared in his heart, and it is inevitable that he will fall into the abyss.

  There are two ways to become an official.

If party leaders want to hold power in one hand and attract the attention of the public; and if they want to hold wealth in one hand, be extravagant and unrestrained, and live a life where "power is what I want, and profit is what I want", they will inevitably be in "righteousness" and In the "profit" choice, wrong judgments are made.

In the end, he will surely embark on the path of no return in life and be severely punished by party discipline and state laws.

Trapped in drowning, regretless

For fear of being investigated and punished to resign early, thought about suicide by cutting the wrist but never thought of surrendering

  If a person knows how to advance, but does not retreat, and is not satisfied with his desires, he must be tired of humiliation and regret.

However, Lu Hongmin made the wrong decision again when faced with the choice of "advance and retreat".

  Behind Lu Hongmin's seemingly easy fame and fortune, his life is like walking a tightrope alone without protection.

Lu Hongmin himself knew this for a long time. He once wanted to evade discipline and law by leaving his current position.

He wrote in his confession: "After taking the post of president, my desire for money became stronger, especially in the past few years in the Provincial High Court, as long as the parties involved in the case are people in the'circle' or introduced by them People who gave me the money can not be received by mistake, and I can’t accept it myself. However, the fear of being investigated tells me that only leaving this position can stop me.”

  Beginning in June 2019, Lu Hongmin has repeatedly submitted requests for resignation to the party group of the Provincial High Court. His office has also been cleaned up, but he has not been approved by the organization.

Because of the fear of the Dongchuang incident, Lu Hongmin has been suffering from fear and torture for a long time.

During that time, Lu Hongmin was in a trance all day.

Recalling that experience, Lv Hongmin said: “In the second half of 2019, there were two weeks in. I almost lost my memory. I didn’t sleep well at night. My dreams were all messy information. During the day at the work unit, I knew who my colleagues were very familiar, but I couldn’t tell. Name, this situation was automatically relieved after two weeks.” Later, Lu Hongmin even thought about suicide by cutting his wrists, his mental pressure is evident.

After extreme fear and nowhere to escape, Lu Hongmin still did not choose to show his heart to the organization and surrendered.

After learning that his main briber, Li, was organized for a detention investigation, he colluded with his wife Tian on many occasions, "counter-parties", entered into an offensive and defensive alliance to oppose the organization of investigations, but all this was just his own cleverness.

  "If you are an official, you will suffer a catastrophe." This is the iron law.

Lv Hongmin finally understood that it was futile to confront the investigation deliberately, and that "temporary holding of the Buddha's feet" could not save him. Only trusting in the organization, relying on the organization, and honestly confessing to the organization is the only way out.

The case handler said:

  General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly warned leading cadres at all levels to strengthen their ideological and moral cultivation, exercise self-discipline, and always maintain the political qualities of a communist.

  Looking at the Lu Hongmin case, its depravity stems from the slack in the study of political theory and the relaxation of party spirit, which caused his ideological decline and lost the original aspiration of a party member.

If the "master switch" of thinking is not tightened, it will not be possible to have the party in the heart, the people in the heart, the responsibility in the heart, and the precepts in the heart.

  At the same time, absolute power leads to absolute corruption.

In addition to Lu Hongmin's own reasons, the lack of effective supervision and restriction is also an important reason for his violation of discipline and law.

The problem of Lu Hongmin's violation of discipline has already begun, and he and Zhang Sui, the lawyer, have been known in the industry for a long time.

Lu Hongmin’s violations of discipline and law began in 2007 when he took office in the Songyuan Intermediate People's Court, and continued until the incident in 2020. For more than ten years, he was not stopped and corrected, and he was allowed to run wild on the evil road of power, money, power and law.

This loss of check power will inevitably lead to corruption.

  The overturning of the car ahead, the lesson of the car behind.

In the face of temptation, no one is born with immunity.

In order for party members and leading cadres to avoid evil winds and make correct judgments when faced with choices, on the one hand, they must rely on the strong support of ideological awareness, such as "soft power."

Only by continuously strengthening study, arming the mind with scientific theories, constantly cultivating the spiritual homeland, and establishing the value orientation of integrity and greed, can we cultivate the "uncorrupted body" and remain sober and firm in the face of any trials of wind and rain.

On the other hand, we must rely on strict norms such as “hard constraints” such as systems and rules.

Only by strengthening supervision and restraint and tightening the institutional cage can those who want to be corrupt cannot take advantage of it.

  It is easy to ban micro, but difficult to save the last.

Lu Hongmin's confession is still in sight. Party members and leading cadres must always be vigilant, have the consciousness of "walking on thin ice and facing the abyss", and always be full of respect for discipline and law, respect for history, and respect for the people.

Party members and leading cadres can only ensure that their behavior is not derailed and their power will not be abused if they work hard on self-denial and "righteousness".

(Jifa Pershing Dragon)