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Liu Handong was investigated three months after leaving office, and he was suspected of another crime

2024-08-05

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Editor: Yu Hui

On August 5, the Supreme People's Procuratorate announced that Liu Handong, former member of the Party Leadership Group and deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Congress, was prosecuted.

Liu Handong was born in August 1959 in Shucheng, Anhui Province. He graduated from the Central Party School. He joined the Communist Party of China in December 1984 and started working in October 1977.


Liu Handong worked in Jiangpu County, Jiangsu Province for many years. In November 2001, he was promoted to member of the Standing Committee of the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee and Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission. He also served as Secretary of the Jiangpu County Party Committee and County Magistrate. Since then, Liu Handong has served as Secretary of the Pukou District Party Committee and Secretary of the Jiangning District Party Committee.

In April 2008, Liu Handong took office in Zhenjiang and became mayor in January of the following year.

In January 2012, Liu Handong was appointed as the Director and Party Secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Finance and concurrently the Party Secretary of the Provincial Local Taxation Bureau.

Six years later, in January 2018, Liu Handong assumed the new post of deputy director and member of the Party Leadership Group of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Congress. The following month, he resigned from his posts as director and Party Leadership Group Secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Finance and concurrently Party Leadership Group Secretary of the Provincial Local Taxation Bureau.

In January 2023, Liu Handong resigned as vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Congress and was investigated in April 2023.

In February this year, Liu Handong was expelled from the party.

  • The notice mentioned that Liu Handong had lost his ideals and beliefs, betrayed his original aspirations and mission, and resisted organizational review;

  • Violating the spirit of the Central Committee's eight regulations, accepting gifts, cash gifts, and consumption cards in violation of regulations, and accepting banquets that may affect the impartial performance of official duties;

  • Violating organizational principles, failing to report personal matters as required, and using power to illegally assist others in their promotion or adjustment of positions;

  • They use their power as a tool to seek personal gain, use their power to seek benefits for their relatives, and condone and acquiesce in their relatives using their power to seek personal gain;

  • Distorted view of political achievements, abuse of power and arbitrariness, and improper performance of duties at work;

  • He wanted to be an official and to make money, and he colluded with unscrupulous businessmen to engage in new forms of corruption and hidden corruption. He used his position to help others make profits in land transfer and business operations, and illegally accepted huge amounts of money and property.

  • Abuse of power causes particularly serious damage to national interests.

The notice mentioned that Liu Handong seriously violated the party's political discipline, organizational discipline, integrity discipline and work discipline, constituting a serious violation of duty.Suspected of bribery, abuse of power and other crimes, and did not restrain or stop after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. The nature of their behavior is serious and the impact is bad, and they should be dealt with seriously.


Now, Liu Handong has been prosecuted.

According to the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the case of Liu Handong suspected of taking bribes, abusing his power and illegally reselling land use rights was investigated by the National Supervisory Commission and concluded by the Yangzhou Public Security Bureau of Jiangsu Province. It was designated by the Supreme People's Procuratorate to be reviewed and prosecuted by the Xiangyang People's Procuratorate of Hubei Province.

Recently, the People's Procuratorate of Xiangyang City has filed a public prosecution with the Xiangyang Intermediate People's Court.

The prosecution charges:

The defendant Liu Handong used his positions as secretary and county magistrate of Jiangpu County, Jiangsu Province, member of the Standing Committee of Nanjing Municipal Committee, secretary of Nanjing Pukou District Committee, secretary and director of Jiangsu Provincial Department of Finance and secretary of the Provincial Local Taxation Bureau, member of the Party Leadership Group and deputy director of Jiangsu Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee to seek benefits for others and illegally accepted property from others in extremely large amounts;

While serving as secretary and county magistrate of Jiangpu County, Jiangsu Province, member of the Standing Committee of Nanjing Municipal Committee, secretary of Nanjing Pukou District Committee, secretary and director of Jiangsu Provincial Department of Finance and concurrently secretary of the Party Committee of Jiangsu Provincial Local Taxation Bureau, he abused his power in matters such as the transfer of land use rights and exemption of land value-added tax, causing major losses to public property, the interests of the state and the people, with particularly serious circumstances;

For the purpose of profit, in violation of land management regulations, illegally reselling land use rights with others, the circumstances are particularly serious, and shall be punished according to law.Bribery, abuse of power, illegal resale of land use rightsHold him criminally liable.

Liu Handong committed multiple crimes and should be punished for all of them according to law

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