Cui Jian, former deputy director of the work office of Jiangsu Pilot Free Trade Zone, pronounced the bribery case in the first instance.

　　On August 4, 2023, Lianyungang Intermediate People’s Court publicly pronounced the bribery case of Cui Jian, former deputy director of the work office of Jiangsu Pilot Free Trade Zone, and sentenced the defendant Cui Jian to 12 years and 9 months in prison for accepting bribes and fined him RMB 2.6 million; The property obtained from bribery crimes shall be recovered and turned over to the state treasury.

　　It was found through trial that from 2006 to 2022, the defendant Cui Jian took advantage of his position as the director of the Development Zone Division of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Commerce and the deputy director of the work office of the Jiangsu Pilot Free Trade Zone, as well as the convenient conditions for the formation of his authority or position, and provided assistance to relevant enterprises and individuals in the allocation of financial subsidies for service outsourcing, the undertaking of financing intermediary business, and the undertaking of information construction projects in the development zone, and illegally accepted property from others, totaling RMB 32.42 million, including RMB 6.34 million.

　　Lianyungang Intermediate People’s Court held that the defendant Cui Jian, as a national staff member, took advantage of his position to seek benefits for others; Taking advantage of the convenience formed by authority or position, seeking illegitimate interests for others and illegally accepting other people’s property through the behavior of other national staff members constitutes the crime of accepting bribes. In view of the fact that Cui Jian was able to truthfully confess his crimes after he arrived at the case, he voluntarily confessed most of the facts of bribery crimes that were not mastered by the case-handling organs, and some of the crimes were attempted, and he pleaded guilty and actively returned the stolen goods, which can be given a lighter punishment according to law. The court then made the above judgment. (Headquarters reporter Jing Ming Wu Rui Mao Jun)