Oriental Network Longitudinal News Reporter Chen Haozhou
Accepting bribes of more than 4 million yuan from the boss of the enterprise, Du Haiqing, deputy general manager of China National Gold Group, was investigated the second year after his retirement. On November 12, the Tieling Intermediate People’s Court rejected Du Haiqing’s criminal complaint for accepting bribes.
According to his public resume, Du Haiqing, born in November 1955, began to work in January 1974, joined the Communist Party of China in March 1978, has a college degree and is a senior economist. In October 2006, he was appointed by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council as the deputy general manager of China National Gold Group Corporation, and retired in October 2016.
Du Haiqing’s previous China National Gold Group Corporation is the only central enterprise in China’s gold industry, with two listed companies. According to the 2019 Top 500 Chinese Enterprises list released in September this year, China National Gold Group Corporation ranked 182nd with a revenue of 105.257 billion yuan.
As early as 10 years ago, Du Haiqing embarked on the road of no return in violation of the law. According to the Criminal Verdict of First Instance on the Crime of Bribery by Defendant Chen Zuyou issued by the Kaiyuan Municipal People’s Court in Liaoning Province in December 2018, the court found that in 2010, Chen Zuyou, a business owner in Zhejiang, approached Du Haiqing, then deputy general manager in charge of production management business of China National Gold Corporation, in order to undertake a mining project under China National Gold Corporation, asking for help.
In December 2010, Inner Mongolia Baotou Xinda Gold Mining Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Xinda Company), a subsidiary of China National Gold Corporation, tendered for the underground mining project, and with the help of Du Haiqing, Zhejiang Zhongtunnel Construction Investment Co., Ltd., affiliated with Chen Zuyou, won the bid for the mining project, but Chen Zuyou abandoned the bid.
In January 2011, Xinda Company tendered for the second time, because Chen Zuyou abandoned the bid, Zhejiang Zhong Tunnel Construction Investment Co., Ltd., which Chen Zuyou affiliated, was excluded, and Shaanxi Deyuan Mining Co., Ltd. won the bid, and the company also abandoned the bid.
The verdict shows that Du Haiqing violated the regulations and directly asked Zhejiang China Tunnel Construction Investment Co., Ltd., which Chen Zuyou was affiliated with, to undertake the underground mining project of Xinda Company, and later Chen Zuyou was affiliated with Wenzhou Erjing Construction Co., Ltd. and established the project department of Wenzhou Erjing Construction Co., Ltd. in Xinda Company, and Chen Zuyou served as the project department manager.
In order to thank Du Haiqing for his help, on January 31, 2011, Chen Zuyou used Du Haiqing’s instructions to remit 1 million yuan to Han’s account with the bank card of his uncle Lu Mouke; On July 1 of the same year, he used the bank card of his nephew Li Mouhuai to remit 500,000 yuan to Han’s account.
In May 2012, January and August 2013, Chen Zuyou used his wife Lu Mouzhen’s bank card to remit 1.35 million yuan to Du Haiqing’s daughter Du Moubo’s account three times in accordance with Du Haiqing’s instructions; In August and September 2012, he used Li Mouhuai’s bank card to remit 800,000 yuan to Du Moubo’s account; In December 2014, when Chen Zuyou visited Du Haiqing in Beijing, he gave Du Haiqing 500,000 yuan in cash.
Chen Zuyou bribed Du Haiqing a total of 4.15 million yuan. According to the verdict, on August 12, 2017, in the course of investigating Du Haiqing’s suspected bribery case, the Tieling Municipal People’s Procuratorate asked Chen Zuyou to go to the Tieling Municipal Procuratorate for questioning, and he was subsequently placed on file for investigation and taken compulsory measures. In December 2018, Chen Zuyou was sentenced to one year and five months in prison and fined 200,000 yuan for bribery.
Today (November 13), the China Judgment Document Network released the Notice of Rejection of Du Haiqing’s Criminal Complaint for Accepting Bribes. According to the notice, Du Haiqing’s son Du Xu appealed to the Tieling Intermediate People’s Court against the criminal judgments of his father Du Haiqing by the Kaiyuan Municipal People’s Court and the Tieling Intermediate People’s Court.
After review, the Tieling Intermediate People’s Court held that the facts of Du Haiqing’s crime of accepting bribes found in the original first and second instance judgments were clear, the characterization was accurate, the procedure was legal, and the sentence of the second instance judgment was appropriate, and Du Xu’s appeal was rejected according to law.
As of the release of the Oriental Net Longitudinal News reporter, the court has not disclosed the result of Du Haiqing’s judgment.