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On August 13, 2024, the Fifth Intermediate People's Court of Chongqing publicly pronounced the verdict on the case of Li Zaiyong, former member of the Party Leadership Group and Vice Chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, for taking bribes and abusing his power. The defendant Li Zaiyong was sentenced to death for the crime of taking bribes, suspended for two years, deprived of political rights for life, and confiscated all personal property; he was sentenced to seven years in prison for the crime of abuse of power, and decided to execute the death penalty with a two-year reprieve, deprive him of political rights for life, and confiscate all personal property; the property and interest obtained by Li Zaiyong from the crime of taking bribes shall be recovered according to law and turned over to the state treasury, and the shortfall will continue to be recovered.

After trial, it was found that from 1998 to 2023, the defendant Li Zaiyong used the convenience of his positions as secretary of the Honghuagang District Committee of Zunyi City, Guizhou Province, member of the Standing Committee of the Qiandongnan Prefecture Committee and deputy governor, deputy secretary of the Tongren Prefectural Committee and commissioner of the Administrative Office, deputy secretary of the Guiyang Municipal Committee and mayor, secretary of the Liupanshui Municipal Committee, member of the Standing Committee of the Guizhou Provincial Committee and secretary-general, member of the Standing Committee of the Guizhou Provincial Committee and secretary of the Guiyang Municipal Committee, member of the Standing Committee of the Guizhou Provincial Committee and deputy governor, and the convenience formed by his power or status to provide assistance to relevant individuals in matters such as engineering contracting, land expropriation, and project planning approval, and illegally accepted property totaling more than RMB 432 million, most of which was not actually obtained. From 2014 to 2017, while serving as secretary of the Liupanshui Municipal Committee and director of the Municipal Urban and Rural Planning and Construction Committee, Li Zaiyong violated laws and regulations and forced the construction of relevant tourism development projects, abusing his power and causing ecological damage losses of more than RMB 86.45 million. After Li Zaiyong was arrested, he took the initiative to confess the facts of abuse of power that the supervisory authority had not yet grasped.