CCTV News:Suspected of illegal possession of guns!
On January 22nd, CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection website announced the news that Yu Mayue, the former party secretary and director of Yunnan Dehong People’s Congress Standing Committee, was double-opened, which was one of the violations of law and discipline.
Yu Mayue, former party secretary and director of the Standing Committee of the People’s Congress of Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province (data map)
According to public information, Yu Mayue, born in Jingpo in 1957, has been teaching in Bazhai Primary School in Yingjiang County and serving as a cultural and educational assistant in Kachang District within 9 years after graduating from Dehong Normal School for Nationalities.
Yu Mayue’s official career began in 1984. From July, 1984 to January, 1989, he served as the deputy section chief of the General Education Department of Dehong Education Bureau and the deputy director of the compilation room of folk language teaching and research. Later, he was gradually promoted to the position of deputy secretary and deputy director of the Party Committee of Dehong Education Bureau, and worked in many systems in Dehong for a long time. He used to be the deputy director of the organization department of Dehong State Committee, the deputy secretary and deputy attorney general of Dehong State Procuratorate, the deputy secretary of Dehong State Committee, and the director of the Standing Committee of Dehong State People’s Congress. In 2017, Ren Dehong Prefecture People’s Congress Standing Committee retained the treatment of cadres at the official level.
CCTV reporter noted that Yu Mayue was not the first official involved in illegal possession of guns.
On August 21, 2018, Chen Wenku, former member of the Standing Committee of Wuhai Municipal Committee of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and former minister of the United Front Work Department, was double-opened. The circular stated that he violated the regulations on gun management, illegally possessed and possessed guns and ammunition, and was suspected of illegal possession and possession of guns and ammunition.
In May 2017, Li Ruohong, former chairman of Guangdong Development Bank Co., Ltd. and former deputy director of Guangdong Finance Office, was sentenced to life imprisonment. In addition to taking bribes, Li Ruohong and his mistress Lu were both accused of illegal possession of guns. In the villa where they lived, investigators found two guns and dozens of bullets.
In October 2016, Feng Zhiming, former member of the Party Committee and deputy director of Hohhot Public Security Bureau, was sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment for accepting bribes, huge amount of property with unknown sources, illegal possession of guns and ammunition, and corruption. It was found through trial that Feng Zhiming privately held and concealed four guns and 549 bullets.
In July 2015, the Intermediate People’s Court of Zhoukou City, Henan Province publicly tried the case of Lian Ziheng, the former secretary-general of the Standing Committee of Henan Provincial People’s Congress, who committed the crime of accepting bribes, the crime of huge amount of property with unknown sources and the crime of illegal possession of guns and ammunition. It is reported that Lian Ziheng illegally holds 10 guns and more than 800 bullets sent by Lei Jianguo, former director of Sanmenxia Coal Bureau.
It is not uncommon for officials to fall off their horses because of economic corruption and abuse of power, but it is unusual for them to be suspected of illegally holding guns. Some officials even brew bloody cases.
Zhao Liping, former vice chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region CPPCC (video screenshot)
Zhao Liping, former vice chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Political Consultative Conference, shot and killed the victim in a residential area with a gun. When he dumped the body, he shot at the victim to vent his anger and burned the body with gasoline. The police didn’t inform Zhao Liping about the motive of killing and the relationship between them. However, it was reported that the two were lovers, and it was suspected that the murdered woman wanted to "expose" Zhao, but the two sides failed to negotiate, and Zhao "passionately killed". When investigating the murder-related scene, the public security organs seized his hidden revolver, 64 pistol and 49 bullets, and also seized 91 detonators illegally stored in his office. On May 26th, 2017, Zhao Liping was executed.
Xiu Qikai, former deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Chengxiang Town, Wuping County, Fujian Province, mistakenly shot a villager as a wild boar and died. According to the family of the deceased, the gunshot wound is not harmful, but should be caused by excessive blood loss after the injury. According to media reports, after realizing that the villagers had been injured by accident, Xiu Qikai did not take corresponding rescue measures at the first time, but chose to escape. After the incident, before being detained, Xiu Qikai returned to the town government to work normally. However, in the eyes of colleagues, he is more introverted and silent than usual. "I have worked harder, but I can still see that there are things in my heart."
In November 2014, Xiao Weidong, a public official of Zhengxiang Branch of Hengyang Food and Drug Administration of Hunan Province, killed a villager by mistake while hunting. The family of the deceased said that seven or eight people drove three cars to hunt in the mountains, and one of them said "law enforcement". This incident caused the "corruption on the shotgun" of officials’ illegal hunting to arouse social concern.
In July 2008, Lv Dugong, former deputy secretary of Tacheng Municipal Committee of Xinjiang, received a friend and went to Yumin County to hunt with an 81-1 automatic rifle and 32 bullets. In the early morning of 27th, Lv Dugong and others mistook a couple for prey, and Lv Dugong shot and killed one person and injured another. Afterwards, many officials involved were sentenced for negligent death, illegal lending of guns, and crimes of sheltering.
How many families have been destroyed by a series of bloody cases, and the fate of them and their loved ones has been completely changed. In fact, our country is very strict with gun management. The Law of People’s Republic of China (PRC) on the Control of Firearms clearly stipulates that any unit or individual is prohibited from holding, manufacturing (including altering and assembling), trading, transporting, renting or lending firearms in violation of the law. Article 128 of the Criminal Law of People’s Republic of China (PRC) stipulates that illegal possession and possession of guns and ammunition shall be punished with fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance. If the circumstances are serious, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years. Personnel who are equipped with official guns according to law and illegally rent or lend guns shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
Under the clear provisions of these laws and regulations, some people are still lucky enough to use their powers to illegally acquire guns, which will lead to serious consequences. Ordinary people are never allowed to illegally hold guns, and public officials should set an example. Otherwise, once these people who hold power are willful, not only can their colleagues add bullets, but they will pose a greater threat to the people and social security will be difficult to protect. (Text/Yiyang)