According to the Shandong High Court WeChat official account, on March 27, 2024, the Binzhou Intermediate People’s Court publicly pronounced the first instance verdict on Song Shuqi, the former deputy secretary and deputy director of the Party Leadership Group of Zaozhuang Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee, in the bribery case, and sentenced the defendant Song Shuqi to the crime of accepting bribes. He was sentenced to ten years in prison and fined RMB 500,000. The property obtained from bribery was confiscated in accordance with the law and turned over to the state treasury.
After trial, it was found that: from the second half of 2007 to before the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2022, the defendant Song Shuqi used to serve as the deputy director of the Zaozhuang Municipal Transportation Bureau, the director of the Zaozhuang Municipal Highway Administration Bureau, the party committee secretary and director of the Zaozhuang Municipal Transportation Bureau, and the director of the Zaozhuang Municipal Transportation Bureau. Secretary of the Central District Party Committee, deputy secretary and deputy director of the Party Leadership Group of the Standing Committee of the Zaozhuang Municipal People's Congress, etc., provided assistance to relevant units and individuals in project contracting and project payment allocation, and illegally received property from others totaling RMB 4,452,769.6 million.
The Binzhou Intermediate People's Court held that the defendant Song Shuqi's behavior constituted the crime of accepting bribes, and the amount was particularly huge, so he should be punished according to law. In view of the fact that he truthfully confessed his crime after arriving at the case, took the initiative to explain some of the facts of the bribery crime that the case-handling agency has not yet grasped, had the circumstances to confess, confessed and repented, and all the stolen money and property involved in the case had been recovered and brought to the case, and had statutory and discretionary circumstances for lenient punishment, and he should be punished in accordance with the law He shall be given a lighter punishment; if he pleads guilty and accepts punishment, he may be treated leniently in accordance with the law. The court then made the above judgment.
