Guo Li, a native of Beijing, earned more than 1 million yuan in 2006, and he chose a milk powder for his daughter, called Yashili milk powder.
In the 2008 melamine incident**, he took his daughter's leftover milk powder for testing and found that Yashili milk powder melamine exceeded the standard by more than 200 times. Guo Li, who earns millions of dollars a year, claimed from the poisoned milk powder, but Yashili directly called the police, saying that Guo Li was engaged in fraud.
Sentenced to five years in prison, Guo Li is only one of the fathers of 300,000 big-headed babies, and even 13 years later, the pain caused by melamine is still indelible.
On September 8, 2008, 14 newborns in Minle County, Gansu Province suffered from kidney stones at the same time, which made people feel extremely angry. In just three days, the number of children with kidney stones in the province has skyrocketed to 59, and some babies even have renal insufficiency, and one child died of kidney failure.
After the outbreak of the incident, the state immediately conducted sampling tests on milk powder circulating in the market, and as many as 69 batches of milk powder in the samples contained melamine, of which Sanlu milk powder was the most serious.
By this time, the cumulative number of children reported to have fallen ill from tainted milk powder has reached a staggering 2940 thousand. Most of these children are plagued by the severe pain of kidney disease, and their common symptom is macrocephaly, and almost all children become big-headed dolls overnight, which is shocking.
The trust of parents across the country in domestic milk powder collapsed, and Sanlu Group, which had an annual income of more than 100 million yuan, also collapsed, and Chairman Tian Wenhua was imprisoned.
But where do the 300,000 children go?Why does melamine, a chemical raw material, appear in children's milk powder?There is an important criterion for judging the quality of milk, whether the milk contains the right amount of protein, and melamine can improve the detection value of protein, so the milk powder with melamine is instantly transformed into high-quality milk. And melamine is very cheap compared to raw milk.
Lower input, higher harvest, drive many milk powder groups to put cans of poisoned milk powder on the shelves and hand them to parents.
This melamine will enter the baby's body, accumulate in the kidneys, and eventually become kidney stones, leading to hydronephrosis and even life-threatening. What makes it difficult for many parents to accept is that these milk powders are fed to their children's mouths one by one.
Parents looked at the long inspection list, one by one milk powder manufacturers, and their hearts were full of despair. Among them is Yashili milk powder selected by Guo Li.
After the incident broke out, Guo Li rushed to the hospital with his two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, and the results of the examination showed that several punctate echoes could be seen in the ** system of both kidneys, and the doctor told him that this was a typical melamine ingestion manifestation.
Guo Li demanded compensation from the S&En brand that his daughter consumed, but the other party refused to pay and claimed that the milk powder purchased by Guo Li was not on the disclosed toxic batch. Guo Li then sent the milk powder to a professional institution for inspection, and the melamine content exceeded the national limit by 132 times.
Shi Eun's evasion makes Golly extremely angry, and he is determined to sue. After investigating, Guo Li found that S&N's registered address turned out to be an abandoned warehouse, that is, it was a shell company, and behind it was Yashili Group.
The claim was unsuccessful and he was sentenced to fraud, and Guo Li's road to defending his rights was extremely tortuous. Guo Li brought evidence to *** Shi En is not a so-called foreign brand, but a domestic manufacturer controlled by Yashili.
Shi En was suddenly pushed to the forefront of **. In the spring of 2009, S&En Group approached Guo Li and offered 400,000 yuan in compensation for melamine-tainted milk powder, and the two parties later signed a confidentiality agreement, requiring Guo Li to prohibit the disclosure of the amount of compensation. This non-disclosure agreement later became the key to Yashili's big deal.
Soon after the agreement was signed, Beijing Satellite TV broadcast a program "How a Man Makes S&N Milk Powder Bow His Head", and said in the program that Guo Li's rights protection actions are still continuing.
This show once again caused the S&N Group to be criticized by the S&N Group, who reprimanded Guo Li for not keeping it confidential according to the agreement, but the confidential content in the agreement was only the amount of compensation. And this program began to be recorded long before the agreement was signed, but S&N Group did not relent, insisting that Guo Li explain.
Yashili behind it, Guangdong Chaozhou also stood up at this time and reported to the Chaozhou Public Security Bureau, saying that Guo Li threatened in an interview with ** and demanded huge compensation. Seeing Yashili's report, Guo Li had no choice but to agree to continue communication.
Yashili instructed Guo Li to write a written compensation application, and the more touching the writing, the more compensation he will receive. After Guo Li wrote a written application for compensation, Yashili offered to pay 3 million yuan in compensation to completely calm the impact of poisoned milk powder on Guo Li.
In July, Guo Li received a call from Yashili, agreeing that the two parties would negotiate the final compensation in Hangzhou and pay 3 million compensation. Guo Li went alone.
As soon as he entered the Hangzhou Hotel, Chao'an**, who had been waiting for a long time, rushed out and pressed Guo Li to the ground. Guo Li was very stunned, and suddenly realized that this was a Hongmen banquet. He was eventually taken to Guangzhou to stand trial at the Chao'an County People's Court.
The trial was bizarre, and Yashili, the manufacturer of tainted milk powder, filed a lawsuit with the court on the grounds of extortion, and provided a edited audio recording of the negotiation as evidence. Shockingly, the recording was accepted.
The Chao'an County Court did not give Guo Li any chance to defend himself, and sentenced him to five years in prison for extortion in the first instance. Guo Li appealed, but the Chaozhou Intermediate People's Court rejected the appeal and upheld the original verdict.
Dissatisfied, Guo Li appealed again, and the Guangdong High Court ordered the Chaozhou Intermediate People's Court to retry the case. After half a year's trial, the Chaozhou Intermediate People's Court once again upheld the original verdict. Guo Li was sent to prison to serve his sentence.
During this period, Guo Li's wife filed for divorce, and the children were forced to cut off contact. A successful person who earns millions a year has nothing since then.
In prison, he is still haunted by his daughter's poisoned milk powder, and he refuses to admit his guilt and waits for his release from prison. In 2014, Guo Li was released from prison and continued to overturn the case and defend his rights, he must ask for an explanation for his daughter. After more than 30 repeated petitions, the Guangdong Provincial High Court finally made a retrial decision.
After more than a year of evidence collection, on August 8, 2016, the Guangdong Provincial High Court** heard the trial. At the scene of the trial, Guo Li did not hire a lawyer, and defended himself throughout the whole process, and he was familiar with all the legal provisions related to tainted milk powder. In the end, the Guangdong High Court acquitted Guo Li on April 7, 2017.
Walking out of the courthouse and facing the camera of **, Guo Li replied: "In addition to grief and indignation, I am very calm." During the ten years of the struggle with Yashili, Guo Li went from a social elite with an annual income of one million to a wife separated and physically disabled.
He lost his job and had to rely on his parents' pension and financial support from the Disabled Persons' Federation. Along the way, the pressure on Guo Li to defend his rights is unimaginable. In the game between Guo Li and Yashili, he is almost on the opposite side of his ex-wife's family.
When collecting evidence, Guo Li found that his ex-wife had made a statement to Yashili Group, which stated that his daughter was currently in good health and had no symptoms, and he opposed Guo Li's approach and resolutely did not participate in the matter.
Guo Li couldn't understand why his ex-wife, who wanted to defend his daughter, ignored the harm his daughter had suffered, and he instinctively defended it. Maybe his ex-wife doesn't understand the law, and there are parts of her personality that are not firm and passable, but what does firming up her position bring to Guo Li?Refusing to confess while serving his sentence, he was confined to a dark and damp room, with the only thing he could do with Guo Li was a signed confession.
Many people persuaded him to confess his guilt, including his family, to have his sentence commuted. Guo Li also knows that the smart way is to admit guilt and reduce the sentence first, and then come out and then overturn the case.
But he chose to sit in prison, and for a long time in the small dark room, Guo Li suffered from severe malnutrition, his legs were disabled, and his eyesight was also affected. When I was first released from prison, I would fall on the road and had to buy a trekking pole.
In 2008, the 300,000 families affected by the tainted milk powder have all fallen silent, but Guo Li is still fighting alone on the road of defending his rights.
His ultimate appeal was for Yashili, with whom he had signed an indemnity agreement, to make good on his promise and punish those who framed his imprisonment. However, Yashili and its two brands were acquired by Mengniu as early as 2013. How many people can find out how many people Yashili can find out who know the truth of the year has long been unknown to the outside world.
With the passage of time, the melamine incident in 2008 seems to be no longer mentioned, but people have long instinctively spent ** to buy foreign milk powder, instead of choosing domestic milk powder that has been rectified.
The scars of time are deeply embedded in everyone's genes. On July 31, 2018, Guo Li issued an open letter to Yashili International Dairy, strongly demanding that the relevant person in charge of melamine honor the compensation agreement of US$10 million, and add US$30 million in comprehensive moral compensation for the harm caused to him and his family in response to the framing incident.
Guo Li no longer holds out hope for compensation, he just wants to give other companies a shock and set an example for consumers.