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Ren Zhiqiang is a well-known real estate businessman in China, he was elected as a representative of the Xicheng District People’s Congress in Beijing and a member of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the CPPCC.
The Second Intermediate People’s Court of Beijing on Tuesday (September 22) issued a first instance verdict on the suspected corruption and bribery case of real estate mogul Ren Zhiqiang, convicting him of corruption, bribery, embezzlement of public funds and abuse of power. by the personnel of the state company and sentenced him to a fixed-term prison sentence. For 18 years, he was fined 4.2 million yuan (RMB, the same below).
Ren Zhiqiang is a Chinese real estate businessman and the famous “Second Red Generation” of the CCP. Earlier this year, he wrote an article severely criticizing Chinese leader Xi Jinping. His friends once said that the CCP’s handling of Ren Zhiqiang was “political persecution.”
Convicted of four charges and sentenced to 18 years in prison
The Second Intermediate People’s Court of Beijing announced that on Tuesday, the former president of Beijing Huayuan Group Co., Ltd., Ren Zhiqiang, was sentenced to corruption and other crimes.
According to the notice, the court found that from 2003 to 2017, Ren Zhiqiang took advantage of his position to embezzle more than RMB 49.74 million in public funds; accepted bribes of more than 1.25 million RMB; embezzled public funds of RMB 61.20 million; abuse of its power caused particularly serious losses to state holding companies 1,167 More than 100 million yuan, including the loss of ownership of state shareholder Huayuan Group of more than 53.78 million yuan, and Ren Zhiqiang’s personal profit of more than 19.41 million yuan.
The court declared that Ren Zhiqiang’s behavior constituted corruption, bribery, embezzlement of public funds and abuse of power by the personnel of state-owned companies. In view of voluntarily and truthfully confessing all crimes, acknowledging all alleged crimes, voluntarily accepting the court’s sentence, and recovering all illegal proceeds, the court sentenced him to 18 years in prison and fined him 4.2 million.
The notice said that after the verdict was delivered, the defendant Ren Zhiqiang expressed his obedience to the court’s decision in court and did not appeal.
The Beijing Second Intermediate People’s Court began hearing Ren Zhiqiang’s case on September 11. Earlier news reported that Ren Zhiqiang’s family had hired a lawyer for him, but he resolutely refused the lawyer and asked for his own defense.
“Disloyal and dishonest with the party”
In July this year, the District Supervision Committee of the Xicheng District Disciplinary Inspection Commission in Beijing announced that Ren Zhiqiang had political and economic problems: politically, “Ren Zhiqiang lost his ideals and beliefs, betrayed his original mission and agreed with the Party Central Committee on important points of principle and publicly expressed opposition. Articles on the Four Basic Principles vilify the image of the party and the country, distort party and military history, are disloyal and dishonest with the party and oppose organizational censorship. “
In economic terms, the ad indicated that Ren Zhiqiang used public power as a tool for personal gain, made huge profits by illegally engaging in lucrative activities of affiliated companies, raised money with his children, and ate and drank illegal public funds.
Ren Zhiqiang’s friend and businesswoman Wang Ying posted on WeChat Moments that she believes the CCP’s handling of Ren Zhiqiang is entirely “political persecution.”
Wang Ying said that Ren Zhiqiang had opinions about his party and its leaders. His party did not allow him to have opinions. Ren refused to regret it. The party fired him. “Here outside the party we dare not say that something is wrong. Directly and at once, rely on the following articles to put this old man in jail ?! This is flagrant political persecution!”
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Since the beginning of March, Chinese social media users have been quietly circulating an article allegedly written by Ren Zhiqiang. The article strongly criticized the Chinese government’s ineffective response to the epidemic.
Ren Zhiqiang’s long article, over 8,500 words, mainly revolved around the new economic development work deployment meeting and the prevention and control of the corona pneumonia epidemic that Xi Jinping attended on February 23. . Ren Zhiqiang criticized the Chinese authorities for their gross negligence in responding to the epidemic, pointed to the shortcomings of the Chinese system and hinted that Xi Jinping was “the clown who stripped down and insisted on being the emperor.”
Ren Zhiqiang said in the article that these 170,000 people attended the conference: “The whole country is cheering on the great leader’s speech. It seems that China has entered the era of the Great Leap Forward again, and has entered the red flag. waving everywhere. ” Treasure book, the era of the three leaders called “Long live, long live.”
After reading the speech, he discovered that “the one who was there was not an emperor showing his ‘new clothes’, but a clown who had taken off his clothes and insisted on being an emperor. Although he tried to hold one fig leaf after another Cover the reality that you are wearing no clothes at all, but don’t hide your ambition to be the emperor resolutely and the determination to let you die if you don’t let me be the emperor! “
Who is Ren Zhiqiang?
Ren Zhiqiang is a well-known real estate businessman in China, he was elected as a representative of the Xicheng District People’s Congress in Beijing and a member of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the CPPCC. His father, Ren Quansheng, had served as vice minister of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce.
He was also a “big V” on Chinese social media Weibo, and was called “Ren Da Pao” for his bold words.
In 2016, Xi Jinping inspected CCTV and CCTV posted a slogan “CCTV puts the party’s last name, absolutely loyal, please check it out.” Ren Zhiqiang later questioned the “official media surname party” on Weibo, saying that “when all the media have surnames and do not represent the interests of the people, people will be abandoned in a forgotten corner!”
Subsequently, China’s National Internet Information Office ordered Sina, Tencent, and other websites to close Ren Zhiqiang’s Weibo accounts in accordance with laws and regulations, accusing Ren Zhiqiang’s Weibo accounts of continuing to release information. illegally publicly, causing negative effects. Ren Zhiqiang was sentenced to stay in the party for a year. The reason given by the Beijing Xicheng District Party Committee was: “Repeatedly publicly posted on Weibo, blogs and other online platforms and other public occasions that violated the four basic principles and violated the line, principles and party policies. Incorrect comments in such areas. “
