Shocked! Yangzhou Chemical Industry Park staff stole more than 90 million state-owned funds and were sentenced to life in the first instance!

On July 18, the Yangzhou Intermediate People's Court opened a trial on the corruption case of Wu Gang and Xu Lanbin, which was prosecuted by the Yangzhou People’s Procuratorate, and the verdict was pronounced in court.
The Yangzhou Intermediate People’s Court found that from September 2013 to November 2018, the defendant Wu Gang took advantage of his position as a member of the Finance Bureau of the Management Committee of Yangzhou Chemical Industry Park and deputy manager of the Finance Department of Yangzhou Chemical Industry Investment Development Co.
, Ltd.
Employing non-recording of income and expenditure, changing the recipient information of the budget appropriation voucher, false budgeting, withholding payment voucher, fabricating refund reasons, etc.
, embezzled and stole state-owned funds of RMB 91,340,478.
(The picture shows the scene of the trial)Among them, from May 2014 to November 2018, the defendant Xu Lanbin (Wu Gang's wife) knew that Wu Gang had illegally occupied the public funds of the unit, but still participated in the conspiracy, and successively provided Wu Gang with three bank cards to help Wu Gang transfer State-owned funds of RMB 39,188,300 were provided.
The above-mentioned funds were used by Wu Gang and Xu Lanbin for gambling, family purchases, investment and financial management, etc.
The Yangzhou Intermediate People's Court held that Wu Gang, as a state official, used the convenience of his position to embezzle and steal public property, the amount of which was particularly huge, and caused particularly heavy losses to the country and the people's interests.
His actions constituted a crime of corruption.
The defendant Xu Lanbin knew that Wu Gang had embezzled public funds, and he still conspired with him to provide help for Wu Gang's embezzlement of public funds.
His behavior has also constituted a crime of corruption.
Wu Gang and Xu Lanbin jointly committed corruption crimes.
Wu Gang played the main role in the joint crime and was the principal offender.
According to law, he should be punished in accordance with all the crimes he participated in; Xu Lanbin played a secondary and auxiliary role and was an accessory offender, and should be given a lighter or mitigated punishment in accordance with the law.
After Wu Gang and Xu Lanbin returned to the case, they truthfully confessed their crimes and confessed.
Wu Gang was given a lighter punishment and Xu Lanbin was given a lighter punishment in accordance with the law.
The Yangzhou Intermediate People's Court sentenced the defendant Wu Gang to life imprisonment for corruption, deprived of political rights for life, and confiscated property of 10 million yuan.
The defendant Xu Lanbin was sentenced to eight years in prison for corruption and a fine of RMB 2 million.
The stolen money seized in the case shall be returned to the victim unit in accordance with the law; those who have not withdrawn shall continue to be recovered; the shortfall shall be ordered to return the compensation to the defendants Wu Gang and Xu Lanbin.More than 200 people from the people's congresses at the provincial and municipal levels, members of the CPPCC, municipal agencies and counties (cities, districts) in charge of financial affairs, Wu Gang, Xu Lanbin's family members, and people from all walks of life attended the trial.