Chinanews.com, Haikou, January 17 (Reporter Wang Xiaobin) The Hainan Provincial Higher People's Court announced on the 17th that the court had recently charged the former party secretary and chairman of Hainan Agricultural Reclamation Investment Holding Group Co., Ltd., and the former director of the Hainan Provincial Agricultural Reclamation Bureau. The case of Yang Sitao, the former secretary of the Chengmai County Party Committee, received a second-instance verdict in the case of bribery and abuse of power. The ruling rejected Yang Sitao's appeal in accordance with the law, upheld the original judgment, and approved Yang Sitao's death sentence with a reprieve in accordance with the law.
The court found that during his tenure in Chengmai, Yang Sitao took advantage of his position to help others in land expropriation, transfer and sex change, real estate project planning and construction application, floor area ratio adjustment, government project contracting, financial special fund support, etc. Seeking benefits, accepting bribes totaled more than 338.2773 million yuan.
In addition, he abused his power, designated project construction in violation of regulations, and returned land transfer fees in violation of regulations, resulting in a loss of 8,143,510 yuan in state-owned assets.
Yang Sitao took the initiative to report and expose clues to other people's crimes, and he has performed meritorious service.
On June 15, 2021, the First Intermediate People's Court of Hainan Province held a public trial of Yang Sitao's case in the first instance, and sentenced Yang Sitao to death for the crime of accepting bribes, with a two-year reprieve, deprivation of political rights for life, and confiscation of all personal property; Sentenced to seven years in prison.
He was punished for several crimes and decided to execute the death penalty with a two-year reprieve, deprived of political rights for life, and confiscated all personal property.
After the verdict was pronounced in the first instance, Yang Sitao refused to accept it and filed an appeal.
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