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Relying on real estate and construction projects to grab huge economic benefits, and promoting demolition projects with the backing of high-quality organizational violence. Recently, the Jinghu District Procuratorate of Wuhu City, Anhui Province, prosecuted Liu Bin, Yang Zhirong and other 57 defendants suspected of organizing, leading, and participating in the crime of organizing a criminal organization, the court publicly announced the verdict in the first instance, and the two main offenders were sentenced to 22 to 24 years in prison for each crime they committed. After the first-instance verdict was announced, Yang Zhirong and some other defendants appealed.
After review, the prosecutor found that the organization gradually gained momentum in Nanling County around 2000, and by 2008, a first-class organization headed by Liu Bin was initially formed. At this time, Yang Zhirong had just set foot in the field of real estate and construction engineering in Nanling County, and urgently needed to use the power of Liu Bin and other first-class organizations to grab economic benefits. As a result, Yang Zhirong provided financial support to the organization by giving shares and paying wages on the basis of the enterprise, and promoted the demolition project with the backing of the organization's violence, and Yang Zhirong and Liu Bin became the organizers and leaders of the organization.
During this period, members of the organization repeatedly carried out illegal and criminal activities such as gathering crowds to fight, picking quarrels and provoking troubles, and carried out more than 40 crimes such as gathering crowds to fight, picking quarrels and provoking troubles, and opening casinos, and carried out 10 illegal acts such as beating others and smashing other people's property. In addition, the non-organized illegal and criminal activities carried out by the members of the organization involved 7 crimes, including **, harboring, and collusive bidding, involving more than 20 illegal and criminal facts.
The Jinghu District Procuratorate believes that the organization has obtained huge economic benefits through organized and criminal activities, committed crimes, and oppressed and harmed the massesAt the same time, taking advantage of the shielding and connivance of state functionaries to dominate one side, seriously undermining the local economic and social production order, and having the organizational, economic, behavioral, and harmful characteristics of an organization of a first-class nature, shall be designated as a first-class organization in accordance with law. After trial, the court of first instance found that the facts and charges of the crime charged by the procuratorate were established, and the organizers and leaders of the organization, Liu Bin and Yang Zhirong, were punished in accordance with all the crimes committed by the organization of the first class of nature that they organized and ledParticipants in such organizations shall be punished in accordance with the crimes in which they participated;Crimes committed outside the organization are to be convicted and punished separately in accordance with the crimes they committed.
The court of first instance ruled that the defendant Liu Bin was sentenced to 22 years imprisonment and deprivation of political rights for four years for four crimes including the crime of organizing and leading a first-class organization, and was sentenced to 22 years imprisonment and deprivation of political rights for four yearsDefendant Yang Zhirong was sentenced to 24 years imprisonment and deprivation of political rights for four years on seven counts, including the crime of organizing and leading a first-class organizationThe other 55 defendants were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from 18 years to three months' criminal detention and were each fined concurrentlyAt the same time, the personal property of Liu Bin, Yang Zhirong, and the four key members was confiscated, and the property and the fruits and proceeds of each defendant amassed through illegal and criminal activities or other improper means were recovered and confiscated in accordance with law.
It is understood that the case was supervised by the Anhui Provincial Anti-Crime Office, and the procuratorate prosecuted it to the court in two batches. The court held two public hearings in September and November this year, which lasted six days, and 55 defendants pleaded guilty and accepted punishment in court.