In July 1996, the Beijing Municipal Party Committee discovered the major economic case of Chen Ming, general manager and secretary of the Party Committee of Beijing Electronic Power Company, and embezzlement of millions of yuan in the investigation and handling of major cases such as Wang Baosen.
So, what kind of legal punishment will Chen Ming receive?
One day at the end of 1995, the Beijing Commission for Discipline Inspection received a report letter signed "An employee of Beijing Electronic Power Company."
The contents of the letter are roughly:
Chen Ming, the general manager and secretary of the party committee of the company, took advantage of his authority to lend the workers the convenience of buying yellow croaker, and he took the method of increasing the price from it and made a difference of more than 100,000 yuan. ”
According to this whistleblower letter, the Beijing Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection immediately conducted a detailed investigation of Chen Ming. I don't know if I don't know that this person, who was awarded the titles of "National Model Worker" and "Outstanding Communist Party Member", was involved in millions of dollars.
When the results of the investigation were released, old friends who were familiar with Chen Ming were surprised. After all, Chen Ming in the past was still conscientious and honest.
In 1935, Chen Ming was born in an ordinary poor family in Beiping. Although his family was poor when he was a child, his parents still sent him to school. Chen Ming lived up to his parents' expectations, and his academic performance was always among the best.
After the liberation of the country, Chen Ming was arranged to work in a power company in Beijing. Starting as an ordinary worker, he was quickly appreciated by the leaders by virtue of his willingness to endure hardships, drive, thinking, and knowledge. In this way, Chen Ming went from team leader, to workshop director, and then to deputy general manager.
In 1988, Chen Ming, who has more than 40 years of party experience, served as the "number one" of the company with the care and support of the company.
At the beginning of Chen Ming's real power, he carried forward the work style of the past few decades, which was arduous and simple, indifferent to fame and fortune, and for the sake of the people.
During that time, Chen Ming was the first to clock in to work every day, and greeted the employees at the door of the company with a smile. He lives a simple life, leads by example, strictly controls all the company's economic expenditures, and never embezzles the best to eat and drink.
When Chen Ming was later interrogated, he told such an incident. Due to Chen Ming's outstanding performance, the company's efficiency has doubled, and the superior authorities directly rewarded him with a bonus of thousands of yuan. At that time, Chen Ming was still very righteous, and he made a public speech saying: "The achievements belong to everyone, the honor is collective, and I thank my superiors for their trust in me." ”
Later, Chen Ming transferred the bonus to the company's kindergarten, and asked the director to buy some toys and school supplies for the children.
In 1989, under the attention and cultivation of the world, Chen Ming was named "Beijing Model Worker", and then was named "National Model Worker", and on May Day, he climbed the Tiananmen Tower to spend a good night with the party and state leaders.
As a large-scale enterprise mainly engaged in the production of coal gas and heat supply, the power company is responsible for supplying gas and heating to some areas of Beijing. Due to Chen Ming's good management and proper decision-making, the company's economic and social benefits are good.
Chen Ming's merits are not small. If he can retire peacefully, then his treatment in his later years, as well as his reputation, are the best. But he just embarked on a road of no return......
In 1992, Chen Ming's power company was preparing to build an electronic monitoring project and needed to find a contractor to undertake the project. In the face of such a fiercely competitive commodity society, Chen Ming's mentality has changed, and then he has the idea of having the right not to use it and invalidating it after expiration.
Chen Ming lay in bed at night, unable to sleep. At the age of 57, he was about to retire. Looking back on the experience of participating in the revolution in the past few decades, he was already one of the top figures in the power company, but he felt that he had only gained some political and honorary fame.
In terms of money, there is almost nothing except the salary and bonus paid by the unit.
So, the more Chen Ming thought about it, the more he lost, and a fire of greed began to burn in his heart, making him restless and restless all day long.
In order to achieve his goal of making a lot of money before his retirement, Chen Ming and Liu Aihua, then director of the company's propaganda and education department, discussed the plan secretly. After discussion, the two decided to set up a power company under the name of "Beijing Zicheng Electronic Equipment Installation Company".
The company is headed by Chen Ming as the legal person and Liu Aihua as the manager.
The purpose of the two people to establish this new company is very clear, that is, to ensure that fertilizer and water do not flow into the fields of outsiders, and to undertake the construction and installation project of the monitoring project of the power company.
The job is there, and it's just a matter of starting up the new company. Where does this money come from? After Chen Ming thought for a while, a ** called the director of the finance department of the power company to his office.
Chen Ming instructed him: "Our power company has established a new subsidiary, called Beijing Zicheng Electronic Equipment Installation Company. Now you need a start-up capital of 400,000 yuan, you write a transfer check for 400,000 yuan, and I will ask Manager Liu to pick it up. ”
The director of the finance department answered, and when he was about to leave, Chen Ming stopped him and advised: "This matter must not spread out, it can only be known by me, you, and Liu Aihua, understand?" ”
On the same day, through the hands of Manager Liu, Zicheng Company suddenly had 400,000 yuan more in its account.
To smooth out the money, Chen Ming called the manager of a resource development company to Power Company. He docked with the director of the finance department of the power company and filled in the amount of 400,000 yuan on a blank invoice for capital transactions.
In this way, the huge sum of 400,000 yuan was transferred to Chen Ming's personal pocket unconsciously.
Originally, Chen Ming planned to make a large sum of money and stop it, but the money came too easily, and it didn't leave any traces of crime, which made him more and more emboldened.
In addition to his own greed for money, Chen Ming also transferred money to the company accounts of his two sons.
In December 1992, Chen Ming's eldest son, Chen Dali, started a private company in Xinjiang. Chen Ming instructed the director of the company's finance department twice to transfer 430,000 yuan** of the power company into the account of Chen Dali's company. The money was eventually reimbursed for the company's operating expenses.
In March 1993, Chen Ming's youngest son, Chen Xiaoping, conspired with the director of the finance department, and Chen Xiaoping came forward and the director of the finance department contributed behind the scenes, and registered a trading company in partnership. After the establishment of this new company, the director of the finance department withheld the loan of 500,000 yuan that should be returned to the power company by other companies.
After that, under Chen Ming's instructions, the director of the finance department transferred 500,000 yuan to Chen Xiaoping's new company twice.
In recent years, Chen Ming and the director of the finance department have been "embarrassed", and the money of the power company is equivalent to their personal money, and they can deal with it as they want.
It is reported that from March 1993 to April 1994, Chen Ming successively transferred 750,000 yuan in cash from the power company and a subsidiary company to the Capital Hotel for his personal feasting and drinking, entertaining friends, and having a tryst with his lover.
From the beginning of 1993 to October 1994, Chen Ming took advantage of the opportunity to buy yellow croaker and other daily necessities for employees, and used the method of "lowering the price to the seller and raising the price to the buyer", and successively made a total of 210,000 yuan in the price difference.
This is exactly the case of economic crime mentioned in the report letter received by the Commission for Discipline Inspection at the beginning of the article. It's just that the whistleblower doesn't know the amount of money in the case, and guesses that it is more than 100,000 yuan.
Chen Ming is on the road of corruption, and there is no return. In his eyes, the development of the company does not seem to have much to do with him. I used to greet the employees with a smile at the door of the company every morning, but I can no longer see it.
Because he was busy making money, Chen Ming rarely attended meetings related to the life and work of the party organization. For more than three years, Chen Ming did not allow the company to hold a "workers' congress".
Because Chen Ming's merits are outstanding and he holds real power in his hands, his supervision can be said to be useless.
In this way, the party and government power of the power company is in the sole hands of Chen Ming. For example, the company's people, money, and materials are only counted when Chen Ming signs them; The company's major matters and the promotion of cadres can only be done with Chen Ming's words; The company has formulated 291 various rules and regulations, which have no effect on Chen Ming.
In the power company, as long as Chen Ming finds that some employees are slightly disobedient, he will be demoted, replaced, deducted bonuses and other punishments, and directly recalled and expelled from the company.
Chen Ming's self-serving, domineering and domineering finally aroused the resentment of the employees. So a report letter poured cold water on Chen Ming's high head. Later, Chen Ming also said in prison that if it weren't for the report letter, maybe he would have continued to commit crimes.
From February to May 1995, with the case of *** Wang Baosen and others, Chen Ming's heart beat a rattle.
Originally, Chen Ming could have taken the initiative to go to the procuratorate to turn himself in. But he still has a bit of luck, and more importantly, he doesn't want to give up the huge money that has already been made.
When the prosecutors took out the evidence of the crime one by one, Chen Ming had nothing to say. He can only be convicted of his guilt and unconditionally accept the trial of the people's court.
Soon, Chen Mingyin *** reached 41660,000 yuan, embezzled 1.58 million yuan, was prosecuted by the Beijing Municipal Procuratorate in accordance with the law, and sent to the people's court.
On April 22, 1997, the Beijing Intermediate People's Court** tried the case of Chen Ming, and on the basis of the seriousness of Chen Ming's crimes, the court sentenced Chen Ming to death in accordance with the law, with immediate execution and deprivation of political rights for life.
On the same day, with a crisp gunshot of "bang", Chen Ming, who had made *** proud of the "Chen's" family, ended his life!
From the former model worker, an outstanding Communist Party member, to later dismissed officials, expelled from the party, reduced to prisoners, and then to be executed.
Chen Ming's road to corruption and its final outcome undoubtedly sounded the alarm for the leading cadres of state-owned enterprises.
No matter how great your merits, status, or reputation you have, as long as you dare to act boldly and recklessly and violate party discipline and state law, what awaits you will be severely judged and punished by the party and the people.
I hope that there will be fewer leading cadres of enterprises who have violated law and discipline like Chen Ming and have been severely punished. As a matter of fact, the common people hope that the dead sheep will be able to "make amends" and that the leading cadres of enterprises who have violated party discipline and state law will take the initiative to turn themselves in to the public security and procuratorial organs in order to strive for leniency.