2023-11-22 04:19:39
[New Tang Dynasty News, Beijing time, November 22, 2023]On November 21, Zhang Jinghua, the former deputy secretary of the Jiangsu Province of the Communist Party of China, was sentenced to 14 years in prison. Reports revealed that following Zhang Jinghua became secretary of the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee, he divorced his first wife and married a woman more than 20 years younger than him. Finally he was reported by his ex-wife.
On the 21st, Zhang Jinghua was sentenced to 14 years in prison for accepting bribes and fined 4 million yuan (RMB, the same below). He was accused of illegally seeking profits in project contracting, project development, job promotion, etc. from 2008 to 2021 when he served as Secretary-General of the Jiangsu Provincial Government, Vice Governor, Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee Member, Nanjing Secretary, and Provincial Party Committee Deputy Secretary. A total of more than 49.84 million yuan in property was received, of which more than 16.76 million yuan was not actually obtained.
On December 1, 2021, Zhang Jinghua was investigated and he became the first alternate member of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to be dismissed. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, two mayors and secretaries of Nanjing have been investigated.
In addition to Miao Ruilin, the former vice governor of Jiangsu who worked with Zhang Jinghua, they also included Zhang Jinghua and Miao Ruilin’s predecessors Yang Weize and Ji Jianye. At the same time, Zhang Jinghua also became the third “tiger” in Jiangsu following the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, following Miao Ruilin and Wang Like, former member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and former secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee.
Before Zhang Jinghua was dismissed, he had been reported many times. Previously, “China News Weekly” reported that the whistleblower stated that Zhang Jinghua asked his mistress and family members to register multiple companies, transfer state funds in disguise, and “launder the money into his own pocket.” In 2021, many of Zhang Jinghua’s former subordinates were investigated in Nanjing, Zhenjiang and other places.
After Zhang Jinghua was sacked, Hong Kong’s Ming Pao newspaper reported that rumors of Zhang’s accident had long spread, and it was said that one of his relatives was involved. When he was in charge of Nanjing, local rumors spread that Zhang Jinghua had an affair with an ace female host of Jiangsu Radio and Television Center, which gave the female host the nickname “Nanjing Empress Dowager”.
The scandal went viral on the Internet. Lu media reported that on July 28, 2017, Zhang Jinghua celebrated the birthday of the female host. At that time, a 10-hour birthday light show was staged on the exterior walls of many skyscrapers in Xinjiekou, Nanjing, with the words “Happy Birthday, Deng!” printed on it, and all were taken by aerial helicopters. It is said that the birthday party that day cost more than 6 million yuan.
After Zhang Jinghua was dismissed, the “Official Prosecution Office”, a new media under the Chinese Communist Party’s official media “Integrity Outlook”, wrote an article revealing that people familiar with the matter said that Zhang Jinghua’s wife (ex-wife) was an “internal helper” who had been active in Beijing for a long time. Once, I met the wife of a certain leader in a hotel and helped connect Zhang Jinghua.
A Nanjing official revealed that Zhang Jinghua and his wife have been at odds for a long time. After he became secretary of the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee, he insisted on divorcing his wife. After the divorce, he married a woman who was more than 20 years younger than him. Relying on his brother-in-law’s power, Zhang’s brother-in-law has been involved in high-profile financial investment, engineering construction, and bidding in Nanjing and other places. Reports from competitors have never stopped. Other reports came from Zhang Jinghua’s first wife and Xuzhou.
On January 9 this year, a feature film by the Chinese Communist Party’s official media mentioned: In 2014, Zhang Jinghua and some college classmates established a WeChat group and began to meet regularly. A large part of the amount of bribes Zhang Jinghua was later suspected of accepting was related to his college classmates.
In addition, Zhang Jinghua helped two relatives participate in some major engineering projects in Nanjing, and naturally gained huge benefits from them. After Zhang Jinghua took office in Nanjing, he frequently bought, sold, and flipped houses in just a few years. He was involved in four properties, each of which made huge profits through illegal means.
(Comprehensive reporting by reporter Tang Zheng/Editor in charge: Zhu Xinrui)
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