Gong Daoan, former deputy mayor of Shanghai Municipal Government and former director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, was sentenced in the first instance for accepting bribes.

　　Cctv newsOn September 21, 2022, the Intermediate People’s Court of Tangshan City, Hebei Province publicly pronounced the case of Gong Daoan, former deputy mayor of Shanghai Municipal Government and former director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, sentenced the defendant Gong Daoan to life imprisonment for accepting bribes, deprived him of his political rights for life, and confiscated all his personal property; The proceeds and fruits of Gong Daoan’s bribery crime shall be recovered according to law and turned over to the state treasury.

　　It was found through trial that from the second half of 1999 to July 2020, the defendant Gong Daoan used to be the deputy director of Jingzhou Public Security Bureau of Hubei Province, the director of the major crime investigation department of the Criminal Investigation Corps of Hubei Provincial Public Security Bureau, the chief of the Economic Crime Investigation Corps, the Standing Committee of Xianning Municipal Committee of Hubei Province, the secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, the director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, and the deputy director and director of the Technical Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security. The convenience of the positions of the members of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, the deputy mayor and the director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, as well as the convenient conditions for the formation of my authority and status, have provided assistance to relevant units and individuals in enterprise management, project contracting, case handling, job promotion, etc., and illegally accepted the property of relevant personnel, amounting to RMB 73.43 million.

　　The Tangshan Intermediate People’s Court held that the defendant Gong Daoan’s behavior constituted the crime of accepting bribes. Gong Daoan received a huge amount of bribes, and he should be severely punished according to law for seeking job promotion for others and taking advantage of his authority to intervene in case handling. Gong Daoan confessed his crimes truthfully after arriving at the case, voluntarily confessed some facts of bribery crimes that the case-handling organ had not yet mastered, pleaded guilty and repented, and all the stolen money and goods were recovered, which can be given a lighter punishment according to law. The court then made the above judgment.