On October 16, 2024, the Intermediate People's Court of Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, publicly announced the first-instance verdict on the case of Wang Xuefeng, former member of the party group and deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Hebei Provincial People's Congress, accepting bribes and using influence to accept bribes, and sentenced the defendant Wang Xuefeng to 15 years in prison and a fine of RMB 8 million for accepting bribes; He was sentenced to five years imprisonment and a fine of 400,000 yuan for the crime of using influence to accept bribes, and was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment and a fine of 8.4 million yuan, and the criminal gains and their fruits that were sealed and seized in the case were to be recovered and turned over to the state treasury in accordance with law.
After trial, it was ascertained that from 1999 to 2022, the defendant Wang Xuefeng took advantage of his position as a member of the Standing Committee, Secretary-General, Deputy Secretary, and Executive Deputy Secretary of the Hebei Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, Director of the Hebei Provincial Department of Supervision, Secretary of the Tangshan Municipal Party Committee, Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Hebei Provincial People's Congress, and Chairman of the Financial and Economic Committee, to provide assistance to relevant units and individuals in matters such as the selection and appointment of cadres, enterprise management, and work arrangements, either directly or through the conduct of other state functionaries in their positions. illegally received property directly or through others, totaling more than 84.07 million yuan; From 2018 to 2022, defendant Wang Xuefeng took advantage of his position as vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the Hebei Provincial People's Congress before his retirement to seek improper benefits for relevant units and individuals in matters such as case handling and project contracting through the conduct of other state functionaries, and illegally accepted property totaling more than 4.11 million yuan.
The Taiyuan City Intermediate People's Court held that defendant Wang Xuefeng's conduct constituted the crime of accepting bribes and the crime of using influence to accept bribes, and that the amounts were particularly huge and should be punished in accordance with law. In view of the fact that Wang Xuefeng truthfully confessed his crimes after being brought into the case, and voluntarily confessed most of the facts of accepting bribes and using influence to accept bribes that the case-handling organs had not yet grasped, the crime of using influence to accept bribes constituted voluntary surrender; Provide clues on the investigation of other major cases, which have been verified to be true, and have made major meritorious contributions; Where they admit guilt and repent, actively return stolen goods, and all the stolen money and property involved in the case have been recovered, they may be given a lighter punishment for the crime of accepting bribes in accordance with law, and the punishment for the crime of using influence to accept bribes may be commuted. The Court accordingly rendered the judgment.
Source: CCTV News, CCTV Network