One night in September 2021, the director of the Sixth Discipline Inspection and Supervision Office of the Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision of Nanchong City, Sichuan Province, received such a text message: "Hello Director Zhao! Excuse me, I'm Zhao Shaoxiong of the Jialing District Government. I have some things to report to you and the organization in my personal work, please indicate the specific time and place, and I will come immediately. ”
So, what is it that makes Zhao Shaoxiong anxious to report to the organization at night? When he really faced the organization, was he as sincere as he was in the text message?
The staff of the Nanchong Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision knew that the reason why Zhao Shaoxiong surrendered was because two businessmen who had close contacts with him had been detained by the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision earlier. However, in the process of confessing to the organization, Zhao Shaoxiong only talked about accepting 35,000 yuan from one of the businessmen, and avoided talking about other issues.
On the same day, the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision decided to take measures to retain Zhao Shaoxiong, which directly shattered his illusion of trying to "get rid of his crimes." After the incident, the case-handling personnel discovered that Zhao Shaoxiong had made a lot of preparations before "surrendering" in a vain attempt to resist the organization's investigation.
Before surrendering, Zhao Shaoxiong colluded with a number of people involved in the case many times and consulted with several lawyer teams to establish an offensive and defensive alliance and an ideological line of defense.
So, Zhao Shaoxiong has exhausted all his organs, what exactly do you want to hide? As the investigation deepened, his carefully woven confession lies were peeled back layer by layer.
In 1985, Zhao Shaoxiong, who graduated from a normal college, was assigned to teach in the township for five years, and then was admitted to work in relevant departments at the municipal level through personal efforts. After more than 10 years, he successively worked in the Construction Bureau of Jialing District, Nanchong City, and the Management Committee of the Municipal Economic Development Zone.
As the first generation of his family to work hard from the countryside to the city, he is burdened with a lot of economic pressure. In order to subsidize his family, Zhao Shaoxiong often used his evening off-duty time to play drums in dance halls to make money.
Zhao Shaoxiong later recalled to the staff of the Commission for Discipline Inspection when he repented: After I came to work in the city, I was destitute, and my housing was very difficult and cramped, and three generations lived in a house of more than 10 square meters. The "money dream" in my early years and the "house pain" in the past made me more and more impulsive about money and buying a house.
Due to the lack of reverence for discipline and law, such a desire made Zhao Shaoxiong use power as a tool for personal "dreams" and "healing" after grasping power.
In a blink of an eye, in 1995, Zhao Shaoxiong was appointed as the director of the bidding office and the deputy director of the demolition office by the Construction Bureau of Jialing District, Nanchong City. In the face of the "hunting" and temptation in society, he is almost powerless.
One day in September of that year, a boss who specialized in demolishing and collecting the residual value of old houses found Zhao Shaoxiong, thanked him for his care in his daily work, and gave him a red envelope of 800 yuan. At that time, Zhao Shaoxiong's monthly salary was 300 yuan, and he played drums in the dance hall at night for 600 yuan. $800 is not a small amount for him.
Zhao Shaoxiong, who tasted the sweetness of power realization, began to be out of control, and no longer went to the dance hall to play drums at night, but focused on managing power, realizing power, and couldn't extricate himself in accepting red envelopes and gifts.
In 2003, after Zhao Shaoxiong was appointed deputy director of the Jialing District Construction Bureau, he had more power than before and received more red envelopes, but he still felt that it was too slow to come to him because of his growing thirst for money. After some careful consideration, Zhao Shaoxiong decided not to flow into the fields of outsiders, and immediately contacted his sister-in-law Wang Moumou, who was engaged in construction projects, and took the initiative to help Wang Moumou engage in construction contracting activities within his jurisdiction.
From 2004 to 2011, Zhao Shaoxiong took advantage of his positions as deputy director of the Jialing District Construction Bureau, deputy director and director of the Jialing District Business City Management Bureau, and director of the office of the Jialing District Industrial Concentration Zone Management Committee to help Wang Moumou illegally contract and implement six engineering projects, including the housing return project on the north side of the Jialing Campus of Nanchong High School and the reconstruction and expansion project of Yen Ching Restaurant, during which he gave special care.
After the completion of these projects, Zhao Shaoxiong received a thank you fee from Wang, totaling 2 million yuan.
With the deepening of the comprehensive and strict management of the party, the deterrent effect of anti-corruption has gradually become prominent. Zhao Shaoxiong stopped his "cooperation" with his brother-in-law Wang Moumou, and instead thought about how to circumvent laws and discipline regulations and "make money" more secretly.
In September 2013, Zhao Shaoxiong was promoted to the director of the Management Committee of Jialing District Industrial Concentration Zone, Nanchong City. At the beginning, Zhao Shaoxiong was very cautious and only received red envelopes from the two, but as time went by, seeing that the two of them made a lot of money in their jurisdiction, Zhao Shaoxiong was ready to make money by cooperating with these two bosses.
In the first half of 2013, Zhao Shaoxiong took advantage of his position as the director of the Management Committee of the Industrial Concentration Zone of Jialing District, Nanchong City, to provide assistance to Ren Moumou in subcontracting the reconstruction project of the northern section of Yingbin Avenue in Jialing District. One day around July 2013, Ren Moumou proposed to Zhao Shaoxiong that Zhao Shaoxiong would thank Zhao Shaoxiong for his help by arranging for others to "invest money" and collect "returns" from him.
After consulting relevant books and consulting relevant personnel, Zhao Shaoxiong consciously and intelligently believed that the method of "investing" in the name of relatives and receiving "fixed returns" could avoid organizational investigations. So, he agreed to Ren Moumou's proposal, and then arranged for his relatives to transfer a total of 600,000 yuan to Ren Moumou many times. Soon after, Ren Moumou transferred back 1.2 million yuan twice, and in such a seemingly reasonable and legal way, he conveyed a lot of benefits to Zhao Shaoxiong.
At this time, Zhao Shaoxiong seemed to have found a "golden key" that could not only make money but also evade investigation, which made his corruption even more crazy.
In August 2014, with the help of Zhao Shaoxiong, the company affiliated with businessman Xiang successfully won the bid for an approach road construction project in Jialing District, Nanchong City, with a total value of 139 million yuan. Before winning the bid, Zhao Shaoxiong greeted Xiang Moumou in advance and agreed to "contribute" to Xiang Moumou in the name of the boss Ren Moumou on the grounds of providing some of the funds required for the construction of the project, not to participate in the operation and management of the project, not to bear the risk of operating losses, and to charge a "fixed return".
In order to hide people's eyes and ears and give Ren Moumou some sweetness, he also asked Ren Moumou to "contribute" together and receive a "fixed return".
Subsequently, Zhao Shaoxiong proposed that he "contributed" 1.5 million yuan and received 2 million yuan in "fixed returns", and businessman Ren Moumou "contributed" 2 million yuan and received 3 million yuan in "fixed returns", and Xiang Moumou agreed.
By investing a large amount of money in my clients and receiving a large fixed return, I thought that this could deceive the organization and think that it was a normal share dividend, but in fact, I was covering my ears and stealing the bell, and deceiving myself.
In this way, Zhao Shaoxiong and businessman Ren Moumou received a total of 5 million yuan in "fixed returns" during the three years of "capital contribution".
In the name of investment, the fact of bribery is covered, and corruption is renewed and hidden. The concealed and novel criminal method of "investing to obtain fixed returns" is unprecedented in the investigation and handling of cases in our city in the past, and after excluding the rationality of investment dividends and private lending, the uniqueness of power-for-money transactions has been locked.
In April 2018, Zhao Shaoxiong was appointed as a member of the party group and deputy head of the Jialing District People's Government.
The trust of the organization, the new leadership position, is still used by him as a tool for power and money trading. From 2020 to 2021, businessman Wei would give Zhao Shaoxiong 50,000 yuan in cash before the Spring Festival every year, totaling 100,000 yuan.
Zhao Shaoxiong, who received the money, took advantage of his position to seek benefits for Wei in the contracting and project allocation of six projects, including the central air-conditioning pipeline project of the college students' entrepreneurship village in Jialing District and the central air-conditioning installation and procurement project of the Nanchong entrepreneurship town.
The investigation confirmed that from 2004 to 2021, Zhao Shaoxiong took advantage of his position to provide assistance to others in project construction, construction, acceptance, and appropriation, and accepted property totaling more than 10.79 million yuan with others or alone. In April 2022, Zhao Shaoxiong was expelled from the party and dismissed from public office, and in June 2023, he was sentenced to 11 years in prison and fined RMB 720,000, and all his illegal gains were confiscated.