Ma Ming, former vice chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Political Consultative Conference, was sentenced to life in the first instance of the bribery case

　　Chinanews.com on February 17, according to Shandong High Law’s WeChat official account, on the morning of February 17, the Zibo City Intermediate People’s Court in Shandong Province publicly sentenced Ma Ming, former member of the CPPCC Party Committee and Vice Chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, for accepting bribes, and was sentenced to the crime of accepting bribes. Defendant Ma Ming was sentenced to life imprisonment, deprived of political rights for life, and sentenced to confiscation of all personal property; the seized, sealed, and frozen property obtained from bribery and its fruits were recovered and turned over to the state treasury.

　　After the trial, it was found that: from 2000 to 2019, the defendant Ma Mingyu served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Songyuan Municipal Party Committee and deputy mayor of Jilin Province, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Jilin Provincial Department of Commerce, Secretary of the Liaoyuan Municipal Party Committee of Jilin Province, and a member of the Party Group of the Jilin Provincial Government. Minister, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Public Security Department, Vice-Chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Government, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Public Security Department, member of the CPPCC Party Leadership Group and Vice-Chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, etc. Others provided assistance in business operation, job adjustment and case handling, and illegally accepted property from others, totaling more than RMB 157.85 million.

　　The Zibo Intermediate People's Court held that the defendant Ma Ming's behavior constituted the crime of accepting bribes, and the amount of bribes he accepted was particularly large, the number of times he accepted bribes was large, and the time span was large, which seriously violated the integrity of the duties of state officials and had a bad impact; at the same time, Ma Ming was brought to the case. Later, he was able to take the initiative to confess the fact that he took bribes of more than 150.71 million yuan that the case-handling agency had not yet grasped, pleaded guilty and repented, and reported others to constitute meritorious service.

Taking into account the above-mentioned criminal facts, nature, circumstances and the degree of harm to the society, the court made the above judgment.