Dongfang Net Longitudinal Journalist Chen Haozhou
Cai Sihong’s brother-in-law Dong Guanghui was sentenced to five years and six months’ imprisonment for using his influence to take bribes to collect 3 million yuan after the "star official" in Yunnan, Cai Sihong, the former deputy mayor of Yuxi, and Geng Mei, the former deputy mayor of Baoshan. On December 29th, China Judgment Document Network published "criminal judgment, the First Trial of Dong Guanghui’s Taking Bribery and Taking Bribery by Influence", which revealed the details of Dong Guanghui’s wealth collection.
According to the verdict, Dong Guanghui was born in December 1971, with a junior high school education and a native of mangshi. On January 8 this year, he was detained by the Wuding County Supervisory Committee. On July 6, the Wuding County People’s Procuratorate decided to be criminally detained by the Wuding County Public Security Bureau, and he was arrested on July 11.
The Wuding County People’s Court found through trial that Dong Guanghui accepted Dong’s request, and after consulting with Cai Sihong, then secretary of the mangshi Municipal Party Committee and the mayor’s relative, Cai Sihong came forward to say hello to help Dong’s Kaiyuan Hongfa Construction Group Co., Ltd. undertake the construction project of the fifth primary school in mangshi and the construction project of the coffee avenue in the Pappian District of mangshi Industrial Park. From March 2010 to November 2018, Dong Guanghui received 2 million yuan from Dong four times.
(Caption: Cai Sihong, former deputy mayor of Yuxi City Source: Dongfang. com)
During 2015, Dong Guanghui accepted the request of Liu, a construction contractor, to help introduce the construction project of Nanyang overseas Chinese machinists returning to China for the Anti-Japanese Memorial Hall. After receiving the promise of 1.5 million yuan afterwards, he took advantage of the influence formed by Cai Sihong’s position and status as the secretary of Ruili Municipal Party Committee, and with the help of Cai Sihong and others, he contracted the construction project for Liu. At the beginning of 2016, Dong Guanghui received 1 million yuan from Liu twice.
According to Dong Guanghui’s confession, "Cai Sihong and we are a family. He didn’t want his sister and I to live a hard life. He came forward to help Dong to undertake the project, just to let me collect the benefits to increase my family’s income and improve my family’s quality of life."
Cai Sihong’s testimony also confirmed that Dong Guanghui is his brother-in-law. "He has no job, no right, no money, no technology, no resources, no fixed occupation and no fixed income. I also want to help my brother-in-law’s family increase their income in this way, so I acquiesced in his accepting the’ benefit fee’."
The explanation presented by the Wuding County Supervision Committee confirmed that Dong Guanghui voluntarily explained the criminal facts of this case to the investigation organ when he was told to cooperate with the investigation of other cases. The verdict shows that on April 10 this year, Dong Guanghui voluntarily returned 3 million yuan of funds involved in the case to the investigation organ.
On December 21 this year, Dong Guanghui was sentenced to five years and six months’ imprisonment and fined 700,000 yuan. The illegal income of 3 million yuan was confiscated and turned over to the state treasury by the Wuding County Supervision Committee.
The reporter noted that Cai Sihong, born in August 1967, and Geng Mei, born in September 1968, were once remarkable couples "star officials" in Yunnan politics. Both of them are from Yunnan. Cai Sihong graduated from Yunnan University for Nationalities, majoring in Dai language, and Geng Mei graduated from Yunnan University, majoring in journalism. Both of them graduated from university in the same year and joined the work.
(Caption: Geng Mei, former deputy mayor of Baoshan City Source: official website, Longyang District People’s Government of Baoshan City)
In official career, the couple can be described as "going hand in hand". In 1993, Cai Sihong was appointed Deputy Secretary-General of Dehong Federation of Industry and Commerce. Two years later, Geng Mei was promoted from an ordinary news editor of Baoshan Daily to the deputy director of the Propaganda Department Office of Baoshan District Committee; In July 2009, Cai Sihong was appointed secretary of Luxi (renamed mangshi in November 2010), and Geng Mei was promoted from the county magistrate of Changning County to the secretary of Changning County Committee in December of the following year.
In 2013, Cai Sihong and Geng Mei both became deputy department heads: Geng Mei was promoted to vice mayor of Baoshan City and concurrently served as secretary of Longyang District Committee, Cai Sihong became deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Ruili National Key Development and Opening Experimental Zone (deputy department head), and was later appointed secretary of Ruili Municipal Committee. In October 2015, Cai Sihong was transferred to the vice mayor of Yuxi City. At this point, both husband and wife became deputy mayors of prefecture-level cities.
Before Dong Guanghui was sentenced, Cai Sihong and his wife Geng Mei, both CPC cadres, were both dismissed.
According to the Yunnan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, on October 15, 2019, Geng Mei, deputy mayor of Baoshan City and secretary of Longyang District Party Committee, was suspected of serious violation of discipline and law, and accepted disciplinary review and supervision investigation. On February 25, 2020, Cai Sihong, a member of the party group and deputy mayor of Yuxi Municipal People’s Government, was suspected of serious violation of discipline and law, and was subject to disciplinary review and supervision investigation.
In March this year, the Supervision Committee of the Commission for Discipline Inspection of Dehong Prefecture published a commentary entitled "Don’t let" go hand in hand "become" both fallen horses ",saying that Cai Sihong and Geng Mei were once a remarkable couple’s" star officials "in Yunnan politics. From "going hand in hand" to "both falling off the horse", it is distressing and thought-provoking.
According to the article, the "corrupt couple file" between Cai Sihong and Geng Mei once again sounded the alarm of "family integrity" for leading cadres in the province. A good family style benefits the family and the country; On the contrary, a morbid family style will destroy the family and harm others, oneself and society.
Now, Dong Guanghui was jailed after Cai Sihong and Geng Mei both fell, which once again proved the harmfulness of the morbid family style of leading cadres.
