China News Service, December 23. According to the WeChat public account of the Higher People's Court of Heilongjiang Province, on December 23, 2022, the Intermediate People's Court of Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province used a remote video system to convict Liang Chengjun, the former deputy secretary of the Hegang Municipal Party Committee and mayor. , bribery, abuse of power, and unknown sources of huge amounts of property, the first-instance public judgment was announced, and the defendant Liang Chengjun was sentenced to death for corruption, suspended for two years, deprived of political rights for life, and all personal property was confiscated; he was sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment for bribery Ten years and six months, and a fine of one million yuan; sentenced to five years in prison for the crime of abusing power; sentenced to five years in prison for the crime of ignoring the source of a huge amount of property, combined punishment for several crimes, decided to execute the death penalty, and suspended for two Year execution, deprivation of political rights for life, and confiscation of all personal property.
The criminal proceeds and fruits seized in the case will be recovered, the corrupted part will be returned to the victim unit, the bribed part will be turned over to the state treasury, and the insufficient part will continue to be recovered.
After the trial, it was found that: from 2013 to 2016, the defendant Liang Chengjun took advantage of his position as deputy secretary of the Hegang Municipal Party Committee and mayor to embezzle a total of more than 101 million yuan of public funds alone or with others; from 2011 to 2016, Liang Chengjun used As the secretary of the Hegang Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, the deputy secretary of the Hegang Municipal Party Committee, and the mayor of Hegang, he provided assistance to relevant units and individuals in matters such as project contracting, business operation, job adjustment and promotion, and illegally received property equivalent to RMB 6.66 million Yu Yuan; from 2015 to 2016, Liang Chengjun, then deputy secretary of the Hegang Municipal Party Committee and mayor, abused his power and lent government funds to enterprises in violation of regulations, causing a total financial loss of 60 million yuan; The source of property worth more than 26.93 million yuan cannot be explained.
In addition, after Liang Chengjun arrived at the case, he reported and exposed other people's criminal behavior, which was verified to be true.
The Intermediate People's Court of Jixi City held that the defendant Liang Chengjun's actions constituted crimes of corruption, bribery, abuse of power, and crimes of unknown sources of huge amounts of property, and should be punished for several crimes.
Liang Chengjun embezzled a particularly large amount, the circumstances of the crime were particularly serious, the social impact was particularly bad, and he caused particularly heavy losses to the interests of the country and the people. He should be sentenced to death for his crime.
In view of Liang Chengjun's meritorious service and most of the proceeds of crime were recovered, he has statutory and discretionary circumstances for a lighter punishment, and the death penalty may not be executed immediately.
After comprehensively considering the criminal facts, circumstances and degree of harm to society in the whole case, the court made the above judgment.