China News Service, Beijing, March 9th: Title: No wrongdoing will be tolerated, and mistakes must be corrected - Exclusive interview with Yuan Ming, Director of the Major Crime Prosecution Department of the Supreme People's Procuratorate
Reporter Zhang Su
The Second Procuratorate of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, also known as the Major Crime Procuratorate.
From cracking down on various drug crimes to promoting safe delivery; from punishing crimes that endanger production safety to legal supervision of death penalty reviews, each case handled by the Supreme People's Procuratorate's "Serious Case Team" has a far-reaching impact.
The work report of the Supreme People's Procuratorate was submitted to the second session of the 14th National People's Congress for review on the 8th.
Yuan Ming, Director of the Second Procuratorate of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, gave an explanation of the serious crime prosecution content in the report in an exclusive interview with this newspaper.
On March 8, the second session of the 14th National People's Congress held its second plenary session at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
Photo by China News Service reporter Sheng Jiapeng
Supervise handling of cases: Don’t tolerate mistakes if they are not in vain, correct mistakes if they happen
"We focus on the main responsibility of supervising and handling cases, and insist on correcting mistakes without any mistakes," Yuan Ming said.
He said that in 2023, protest cases such as Xu Yan's drug transportation case and Chen Cang's robbery case were handled. Xu Yan was retrialed from not guilty to death penalty, and Chen Cang was retrialed from not guilty to death penalty with a suspended death sentence; Xin Long deliberately complained to the victims' relatives. In the murder case, a retrial was ordered after a protest was lodged with the Supreme Court. Xin Long was sentenced from not guilty to a suspended death sentence. In a large-scale robbery and murder case at sea in Zhoushan, Zhejiang 36 years ago, prosecution was approved in accordance with the law, and both defendants were sentenced to death.
In addition, the Supreme People's Procuratorate's "Serious Case Team" resolutely supervised and rectified missed arrests and missed prosecutions. When handling an appeal case, it was discovered that a major missed criminal of drug transportation was investigated. After being prosecuted in accordance with the law, the court sentenced him to a suspended death sentence.
At the same time, the Second Procuratorate of the Supreme People's Procuratorate has effectively improved the quality and efficiency of serious case handling through case supervision, professional training, and case preparation and distribution.
For this year, Yuan Ming said that the serious crime prosecution department will fully and accurately implement the criminal policy of combining leniency with severity and handle every case with high quality and efficiency.
"Promote the construction of an evidence-centered criminal charging system and give full play to the role of pre-trial filtering and proof of crime," he said.
He also said that the serious crime prosecution department will further improve the legal supervision of death penalty review, improve the quality and efficiency of criminal trial supervision, promote the application of intelligent auxiliary case handling systems for criminal trial supervision, and strengthen big data-empowered criminal protest work.
On March 8, the second session of the 14th National People's Congress held its second plenary session at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
Photo by China News Service reporter Sheng Jiapeng
Drug Crime: Ensure that drug-related cases are punished as they are punished
In recent years, the number of drug crime cases prosecuted by procuratorial organs has generally been declining, but new drug crime cases have bucked the trend and have increased.
Prosecutors also found that drug-related crimes related to scheduled narcotics and psychotropic drugs other than traditional drugs were on the rise.
"We perform our duties of arresting and prosecuting in accordance with the law and severely crack down on various drug crimes." Yuan Ming said that in 2023, procuratorial organs across the country arrested more than 41,000 people for drug crimes and prosecuted more than 44,000 people for drug crimes.
Yuan Ming said that during this period, the procuratorial organs have strengthened litigation supervision to ensure that drug-related cases are punished as crimes; they have strengthened supervision of case filing and investigation activities, timely pursued and prosecuted missed criminals, and guided investigation agencies to comprehensively collect and improve evidence.
In 2023, procuratorial organs across the country intervened in more than 3,700 major drug crime cases in advance, supervised the filing of more than 2,200 cases; corrected more than 1,300 missed arrests; corrected more than 1,000 crimes that were transferred for prosecution and missed, and corrected and missed more than 2,400 accomplices.
It is worth noting that in response to the use of mail and delivery channels to commit illegal crimes such as drug trafficking, the Supreme People's Procuratorate issued "Procuratorial Recommendations No. 7" to the State Post Bureau in October 2021.
In May last year, the Supreme People's Procuratorate and 17 departments including the State Post Bureau jointly launched a special campaign for safe delivery to deepen the special management of safe delivery.
"In 2023, procuratorial organs across the country prosecuted more than 3,000 people for crimes involving the mailing and delivery of drugs, and effectively punished crimes such as the mailing and delivery of drugs." Yuan Ming said that in the next step, the procuratorial organs will make full use of the advantages of integrated procuratorial case handling, timely supervision and filing of cases, and pursuit and prosecution We will prevent crimes from being committed and severely crack down on all kinds of criminal activities such as sending drugs and delivering contraband.
Safety in production: The number of cases involving dangerous work crimes is growing rapidly
In 2023, the procuratorial organs punished crimes endangering production safety in accordance with the law and prosecuted a total of 4,750 people.
Yuan Ming said that since the addition of the Criminal Law Amendment (11) in 2021, the number of cases of dangerous operation crimes has increased rapidly and has become the "number one crime" in cases that endanger production safety.
In this regard, the Supreme People's Procuratorate has strengthened case analysis and judgment, and organized 10 provincial procuratorates with large caseloads to hold business data analysis video conferences to study practical measures to improve the quality and efficiency of case handling.
“Except for dangerous work crimes, criminal cases endangering production safety have declined year-on-year, but cases causing mass deaths and injuries do occur from time to time,” Yuan Ming said.
The Supreme People's Procuratorate's "Serious Case Team" was immediately listed to supervise, follow up and provide guidance on major liability accident cases such as the major fire accident case at Beijing Changfeng Hospital and the fire accident case at Shanxi Yongju Coal Mine. It actively responded to social concerns and ensured the effectiveness of case handling.
In the process of handling cases that seriously endanger production safety, procuratorial organs at all levels, while pursuing the criminal responsibility of those involved in the case in accordance with the law, strengthen the management of the source of prosecution, urge relevant functional departments to strengthen supervision, and guide enterprises to plug leaks and establish systems.
Yuan Ming said that in order to promote the implementation of the "Procuratorial Recommendation No. 8", the procuratorial organs combined with the compliance reform pilot work of the enterprises involved in the case, actively carried out compliance inspections of the enterprises involved in the case, and promoted the enterprises to improve safety production-related systems and mechanisms.
In addition, the Supreme People's Procuratorate has deployed a special campaign to supervise the filing of cases in the field of production safety, focusing on solving problems such as concealing reports of production safety accidents, falsely reporting the number of deaths, not moving cases when they are there, not opening cases when there are cases, and using fines instead of punishments.
“Next, we will strengthen the research and guidance on the handling of hazardous operation cases and the compliance work of enterprises involved in the field of work safety, improve the quality and efficiency of case handling, guide various localities to carry out case filing supervision in the field of work safety, strengthen traceability management, and promote comprehensive management of work safety. " Yuan Ming said.
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