China News Service, June 29. According to the WeChat official account of the Higher People's Court of Zhejiang Province, recently, the Higher People's Court of Zhejiang Province made a final judgment on the appeal case of Wu Jianli, former deputy mayor of Taizhou City and former director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, for accepting bribes, abusing power, and bending the law for personal gain. The verdict was sentenced to six years in prison and a fine of RMB 400,000 for Wu Jianli's crimes of accepting bribes, abuse of power, and perverting the law for personal gain; the 2,424,823,770,000 yuan of bribery proceeds from Wu Jianli's withdrawal were recovered and turned over to the state treasury.
Previously, the Zhoushan Intermediate People's Court made a first-instance verdict on November 21, 2021 after a public hearing, and sentenced Wu Jianli to eight years in prison and a fine of 400,000 yuan for bribery, abuse of power, and favoritism; The proceeds of bribery crimes were 2.42482377 million yuan.
After the verdict was pronounced, Wu Jianli refused to accept the verdict and appealed to the Higher People's Court of Zhejiang Province.
The Higher People's Court of Zhejiang Province formed a collegial panel in accordance with the law to conduct the trial.
The collegial panel reviewed the dossier materials, reviewed the video of the first-instance trial, reviewed Wu Jianli's appeal materials and the defense materials of his defender, heard Wu Jianli's reasons for appeal and the defense opinions of the second-instance defender, heard the review opinions of the Zhejiang Provincial People's Procuratorate, and transferred Wu Jianli's case. During the second instance, the clues to report other people's crimes were handed over to the relevant case handling units for verification, which fully guaranteed Wu Jianli's litigation rights in accordance with the law.
During the trial of the second instance, Wu Jianli made a written statement to withdraw his appeal grounds for innocence, and submitted multiple reports of voluntary admission of guilt and punishment, admitting that he was guilty of the crimes of bribery, abuse of power and favoritism as determined in the first-instance verdict, and under the witness of the defender Signed the "Voluntary Pleading Guilty and Punishment Commitment", withdrew 2,424,823,770,000 yuan from the crime of accepting bribes.
Wu Jianli reflected in the confession materials, the root cause of his various crimes was the loss of party spirit, neglecting the study of political theory, disregarding party discipline and rules, unable to withstand the temptation of material interests and the test of the market economy, and immersed in his previous honors , narrow-minded, self-serving, putting personal words and deeds outside the supervision of the party and the people, and all consequences are self-inflicted.
Wu Jianli requested the court of second instance to give him a lighter punishment according to law.
The collegial panel of the Zhejiang Higher People's Court held that the Zhoushan Intermediate People's Court ruled that the appellant Wu Jianli had committed the crime of accepting bribes, abusing power, and bending the law for personal gain. legitimate.
In view of the fact that the appellant Wu Jianli voluntarily pleaded guilty and accepted punishment during the second trial, withdrew from the proceeds of the crime of accepting bribes, and showed remorse, he can be given a lighter punishment according to the law.
The above judgment was made.