Details of Guangdong Maoming Wo case： Luo Yinguo, the former party secretary, collapsed and gave up more than 100 officials.

There are three main characteristics of the official nest case in Maoming, Guangdong. First, it lasts for a long time — — It has been five years since the opening of the "second season" from 2009 to March this year; Second, there are many officials involved — — The main leaders of six counties (districts) under the jurisdiction of the city are all involved in the case, including more than 240 cadres from the division level to the deputy department level. The highest-ranking official is Zhou Zhenhong (deputy department level, investigated in January 2012); Many people involved have not been dealt with — — On March 28th this year, after about two years of calm, Feng Limei, the former chairman of Maoming CPPCC and retired for two years, was investigated, which marked the resumption of the "second season" of Maoming officialdom case. Yesterday (April 26th), The Beijing News published the handwritten notes of reporter Zhou Qingshu. During the interview, he came into contact with many on-the-job officials, family members of officials being dealt with, businessmen involved in the case and retired veteran cadres, and even accidentally obtained some files of Luo Yinguo, former secretary of Maoming Municipal Party Committee. Through case file analysis, Luo Yinguo case is an important link in the Maoming Wo case. According to media reports in March, 2011, Luo Yinguo, the former secretary of Maoming Municipal Party Committee, completely collapsed during the investigation and gave up more than 100 officials. According to a former organization department official in Maoming, Luo Yinguo’s fall stems from three major mistakes: "making friends carelessly" and "I didn’t manage my subordinates well, and I didn’t manage my wife well.

The following is the handwriting of reporter Zhou Qingshu published by Beijing News yesterday (April 26th)..

The case of corruption in Maoming officialdom, which has been silent for two years, has once again entered the public eye.

Feng Limei, chairman of Guangdong Maoming CPPCC, was investigated. This may be a key to re-investigating the Maoming Wo case.

The Maoming officialdom case, which began in 2009, involved more than 240 cadres at the departmental and departmental levels, and all the main leaders of six counties (districts) under the jurisdiction of the city were involved.It was not until January 2012 that Zhou Zhenhong, then the head of Guangdong United Front Work Department and former secretary of Maoming Municipal Party Committee, was investigated, and then Maoming officialdom returned to calm..

According to media reports, more than 160 officials were spared when dealing with the Maoming Wo case. And Feng Limei is one of them..

Feng Limei (first from left) and Luo Yinguo (middle blue tie)

The interview was not as difficult as I thought. I easily found many on-the-job officials, family members of officials being dealt with, businessmen involved in the case and retired veteran cadres. Shake hands, simple greetings, I don’t even need to show my papers to each other, so they talked to me a lot.

This is different from the local officials I have contacted before: because of anger or injustice, they urgently need someone to talk to, and they have not shown any caution..

During the interview, I accidentally obtained some files of Luo Yinguo, the former party secretary of Maoming.

The Luo Yinguo case is an important link in the Maoming Wo case..

Influenced by the case of Yang Guangliang, a subordinate and former executive deputy mayor of Maoming, Luo Yinguo, then secretary of Maoming Municipal Party Committee, was investigated in February 2011. According to media reports, Luo Yinguo, which collapsed in an all-round way, gave up more than 100 officials, and Maoming officialdom was shocked.

When the case file was handed to me, the official said two words, which impressed me deeply: The first sentence is that so many officials who paid bribes to Luo Yinguo are still in office, and many people have grievances; The second sentence is that the Luo Yinguo case was the epitome of Maoming officialdom at that time.

The long duration of the case, the large number of officials involved, "one investigation after another, one nest at one end" and many people involved have not been dealt with are the characteristics of Maoming’s officialdom nest case.

After returning to the hotel, I went through these files on my bed. Because the material is solid and the direction is clear, the characteristics of the above-mentioned nest case are clearly exposed.

1. "Making friends carelessly", "Failing to take care of subordinates" and "Failing to take care of his wife"

Luo Yinguo’s case file shows that during the 18 years from 1993 to January 2011, 63 people paid him 61 bribes. Among them, there are 44 leading cadres of the party and government or institutions and 19 businessmen.

Luo Yinguo

A former official of Maoming Organization Department concluded that Luo Yinguo’s fall resulted from three major mistakes.

First, making friends carelessly, "he made friends with some business owners such as real estate agents"; Second, there is no management of subordinates. The biggest mistake is that "I didn’t manage my wife well."

This is also reflected in Luo Yinguo’s case files. Of the 61 bribery records, 16 bribes were accepted jointly by Luo Yinguo and his wife Zou Jifang, together with them or directly through Zou Jifang.

Zou Jifang also failed to escape punishment. In July 2013, Zou Jifang was convicted of accepting bribes and sentenced to six years in prison.

2. The structure of "one loss and one loss" joint crime

Looking at Maoming’s corruption case, bribery and buying and selling officials are the key words to string isolated official corruption cases into a crime case, which also makes Maoming’s corruption case show a "one loss, one loss" joint crime structure.

Take the case of Luo Yinguo as an example. Influenced by the case of Yang Guangliang, a subordinate and former executive deputy mayor of Maoming, Luo Yinguo was investigated. According to media reports, Luo Yinguo, which collapsed in an all-round way, gave up more than 100 officials, and Maoming’s officialdom fluctuated.

In the public information, three bribery officials involved in the Luo case have been sentenced at present: Zhu Yuying, deputy director of the former Standing Committee of Maoming City; Lei Ting, Assistant Mayor of Maoming; Huang Hong, former politics and law committee secretary and public security chief of Huazhou City.

According to the judicial materials of the above three people, before and after bribing Luo Yinguo for promotion, they all involved buying and selling officials, trading power and money with businessmen or abusing their power.

Zhu Yuying has received 57 local cadres totaling RMB 12.38 million, HK$ 3.6 million and US$ 200,000.

On December 22, 2011, Qiu Hai, deputy secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, informed the CPPCC Standing Committee members about the anti-corruption work in Guangdong Province in 2011 at the 17th meeting of the 10th CPPCC Standing Committee, and mentioned that the characteristics of "organized crime" of corruption have become increasingly obvious in recent years, with "one investigation and one nest at one end".

3. The peak of power and crime

As can be seen from the case file, Luo Yinguo’s bribery is closely related to his personal power.

As of February 2012, 15 principal officials involved in the Maoming Wo case (Photo: Caixin.com)

Before September, 2001, Luo Yinguo served as Secretary-General of Maoming Municipal Committee and Secretary of Gaozhou Municipal Committee, and received five bribes. Later, he was transferred to the post of Deputy Secretary of Maoming Municipal Committee and Secretary General of Municipal Committee.

In April 2003, Luo Yinguo was promoted to mayor of Maoming City, and in 2007, Luo Yinguo was promoted to secretary of Maoming Municipal Party Committee.

The time of 56 bribery cases all crossed with 2003, or occurred after 2003.

During this period, Luo Yinguo is stepping towards the peak of personal power.

Lin Haokun, deputy secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and director of the Provincial Supervision Department, once said that "the source of all corruption is power" when talking about the Maoming series of corruption cases.

4. The "art" of bribery

The case file shows that the purpose and means of bribery of officials and businessmen are naked without losing Maoming’s characteristics.

Most officials or businessmen pay bribes for their own direct interests. In addition, five officials and businessmen pay bribes for "indirect benefits".

For example, Lin Guowen, a businessman, bribed Luo Yinguo to ask Luo Yinguo to take care of the promotion of Cai Jinxiong, a deputy-level cadre of Maoming Commission for Discipline Inspection.

A cadre at the official level in Maoming said that in addition to embezzling public funds, accepting bribes and receiving red envelopes, another main source of official bribery funds is to find support from the boss, "and then give the boss a reward by taking care of the project after taking office".

In the case file, Xie Yaosheng, a businessman, was mentioned twice. He and another person in charge of the company paid bribes to Luo Yinguo from 2006 to 2009.

The official cadre and a businessman in Maoming said that Xie Yaosheng’s wife was introduced by Luo Yinguo’s wife. According to Maoming custom, with this relationship, Xie Yaosheng became the matchmaker of Luo Yinguo and his wife, "which is closer than recognizing Luo Yinguo as a godmother".

According to the analysis of the case file, among the 63 bribers involved in the Luo case, 41 paid bribes to Luo Yinguo in US dollars or Hong Kong dollars.

Apart from Guangdong’s geographical proximity to Hong Kong, Maoming officials said that during Luo Yinguo’s bribery period, US$ 100 was about equal to 700 yuan RMB, while Hong Kong dollars were denominated in 1000 yuan. "When bribing cash, you can put dollars or Hong Kong dollars directly into a small briefcase, which is large and inconspicuous."

5, many people did not enter the judicial process.

Another notable feature of the Maoming officialdom case is that many officials involved have not entered the judicial process.

According to media reports, more than 160 officials, including Feng Limei, were spared in the Maoming Wo case involving more than 240 cadres at the departmental and departmental levels.

Take the case of Luo Yinguo as an example. According to the case file, the insider’s account and the public information, I calculated that at least 24 of the 44 leading cadres of the party, government and institutions who paid bribes to Luo Yinguo were still in their original posts, transferred to other posts and retired.