Elephant News reporter Lu Huaitao
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission and the Central Radio and Television Station jointly produced the TV special "Zero Tolerance", and on the evening of January 19, the fifth episode of "Forever on the Road" was broadcast, which listed the cases of Zhang Qi, former member of the Standing Committee of the Hainan Provincial Cpc Committee and former secretary of the Haikou Municipal Party Committee.
"Starting from the grassroots level, he was once a promising young man, who was promoted step by step in the past few decades, successively serving as secretaries of the danzhou, sanya, and haikou prefectural party committees, and then promoted to provincial and ministerial cadres."
Zhang Qi resigned from his hometown in Anhui in 1988 to develop in Hainan under the call of "100,000 talents going to Hainan". When he was in his 20s, he was also full of passion and hoped to make a career here. Later, in the process of increasing power, he gradually lost his original intention of breaking into Hainan.
Zhang Qi's bribe was 107 million yuan, which occurred after he became a provincial and ministerial cadre, that is, after 2014, about 101 million yuan. In terms of power and money trading channels, Zhang Qi himself directly accepted less than 2 million yuan, and the rest was received through his wife and son, and he used "business investment" as a cover.
After the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the central authorities explicitly prohibited the spouses, children, and spouses of leading cadres from doing business and running enterprises within their jurisdiction.
Zhang Qi's wife Qian Ling and Zhang Qi can be said to be typical of the front shop and the back factory. After he seeks benefits for the boss and the developer, he finds the right opportunity to introduce his family to the boss, and then the boss also knows it and gives him benefits. ”
When Zhang Qi was the secretary of the Sanya Municipal Party Committee, he launched a landscape improvement project on a main road, which was a project with a target amount of hundreds of millions of yuan, and Zhang Hailin, chairman of the winning enterprise, was a related household with Zhang Qi who had interests. On the one hand, Zhang Qi let his wife accept tens of millions of yuan in bribes from Zhang Hailin's enterprise under the packaging of seemingly legal economic behaviors such as "stock speculation" and "financial management"; on the other hand, he covered up the essence of the project approved by Zhang Hailin through superficially compliant bidding procedures.
"Zhang Hailin did two projects, ostensibly bidding, in fact, Zhang Hailin once came to my wife, asked me to dinner, to talk about this matter, I told him who you go to find, bidding for a formal form." Zhang Qi said.
In addition to his wife, Zhang Qi also pulled his son Zhang Yan into the power and money transaction.
In 2012, Zhang Qi went abroad to attend his son's graduation ceremony and let his son accept for the first time the "living expenses" sent by a boss who accompanied him.
"I also had very little control over the family, especially for my child, so I said I wanted to help him, and one of the bosses who was on a trip with me offered to give him $100,000, and I also deceived myself and told my son that you would give him back in the future."
Zhang Qi went to the crossroads of society after his son graduated from college, and Zhang Qi used his "demonstration" to teach his son the first corruption lesson in his life, and thus led his son to a road of no return that violated discipline and the law.
After Zhang Yan returned to China and proposed to do business, Zhang Qi introduced various bosses to him, and once again "borrowed" from the boss to give his son as capital. Luo Haiqiang, the actual controller of Hainan Jianfeng Tourism Development Company, "lent" Zhang Yan 30 million yuan, and in return, Zhang Qi provided help for Luo Haiqiang's enterprises in promoting land acquisition and demolition.
Zhang Yan soon became accustomed to relying on his father for nothing, and also began to take the initiative to ask the boss. He traveled back and forth between China and Canada to live a life of luxury and pleasure.
"Whether it is a wife or a son, the initiators are all me, and the failure of the housekeeper to govern the family is also uneducated." Zhang Qi said.
"During his life in Canada, (Zhang Yan) asked his boss for money, asked for hundreds of thousands of Canadian dollars to buy a luxury car, and within a few days the car crashed, and then went to ask others for hundreds of thousands of Canadian dollars to repair the car."
Zhang Qi also asked Chen Xuehui, the owner of Hainan Hengrui Industrial Development Co., Ltd., to invest in haikou and Shenzhen to buy two properties for his son, and the purchase price of this sea-view house in Shenzhen reached 35 million yuan. Zhang Qi used his authority to help Chen Xuehui's company in contracting projects and resolving land disputes. In order to cover people's eyes, the above-mentioned real estate has been placed under the name of Chen Xuehui Company and has not been transferred.
Zhang Qi and some bosses have formed a deep interest bundle relationship for a long time, forming a circle of common corruption. He is not eager to cash in all the benefits of the moment, but carefully laid out the long-term plan for his retirement life and even for his next generation.
Zhang Qi also used the power in his hands to seek the status of a deputy to the national people's congress and a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference for the second generation of the boss. In fact, it paved the way for his son's future development, and better strengthened the relationship between his son and these bosses, and the second generation of the bosses, and his purpose was to continue to pass on power and wealth between the two generations.
The law of the community of interests has always been that one wins and one loses. In 2019, a boss who was close to Zhang Qi was retained, and Zhang Qi had a premonition that he might pull himself out and began to find ways to resist the organizational investigation.
The next day Zhang Qi learned of the situation, he arranged for his son and daughter-in-law to flee Canada, and also tried to cut the relationship between him and Qian Ling, that is, to protect himself. A number of private entrepreneurs with whom he had illicit economic dealings were contacted and asked them to leave the country to take refuge. ”
All kinds of futile actions can not rewrite the ending. In September 2019, Zhang Qi was filed for review and investigation and taken into custody. Because of the huge amount of money involved in his son's case, China issued a red notice to the world, and Zhang Qi deeply regretted it.
In March 2020, the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced that Zhang Qi, former member of the Standing Committee of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee and former secretary of the Haikou Municipal Party Committee, had seriously violated many of the party's disciplines, constituting a serious violation of official duties and suspected of accepting bribes, and had been expelled from the party and punished with public office, and transferred to the judicial organs. In December 2020, the court sentenced Zhang Qi to life imprisonment.
"I especially regret this incident, and I also hope to tell my son that he is still young, don't give up on himself, and can return to China as soon as possible to surrender himself." Zhang Qi said.