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What are the specific details of the bribery case involving red notice officer Yao Jinqi?

On August 27, 2020, the first instance verdict was held in Yao Jinqi’s case. Yao Jinqi was sentenced to 6 years in prison and fined RMB 3 million. Yao Jinqi is my country’s first extradited person from an EU organization country. One person, Yao Jingqi, actively cooperated with the investigation after being extradited back to China. So what are the specific details of Yao Jinqi's bribery case?

From 1991 to 2005, the defendant Yao Jinqi used his position to seek personal gain for others in matters such as project development and enterprise restructuring, and accepted bribes and benefits totaling RMB 52.21054 million. In 2005, the Zhejiang Provincial People's Procuratorate opened a case to investigate Yao Jinqi's case. After the incident, Yao Jinqi fled abroad. During this period, he fled to Bulgaria. In 2008, the Bulgarian police arrested Yao Jinqi in the capital of Bulgaria based on a wanted order, and based on my country's application Yao Jinqi was temporarily detained. While serving his sentence, Yao Jinqi sent an application to the Chinese Embassy in Bulgaria, requesting to surrender and return to the country, and would actively cooperate with the extradition. In the same year, Yao Jinqi was extradited back to the country for sentencing.

On August 27, 2020, the Zhejiang Provincial People's Court made a first-instance judgment in the Yao Jinqi case and sentenced Yao Jingqi to 6 years in prison and a fine of 3 million yuan. At the same time, he was punished for the bribes and interest he received. The money was confiscated or returned by family members. Yao Jinqi stated that he would obey the judgment and would not apply for appeal. The details of Yao Jinqi's case are that he voluntarily returned to China for review, actively cooperated with the inspections of the People's Court and the People's Procuratorate, and confessed truthfully He committed bribery, confessed to other criminal facts, surrendered, reported and exposed the criminal behavior of others, and performed meritorious service. In view of this situation, the People's Court and the People's Procuratorate dealt with it as appropriate and gave Yao Jinqi a lighter punishment.

Yao Jinqi is my country’s first public criminal to be extradited from an EU country, and also the first person successfully extradited since the establishment of my country’s National Supervision and Reform Commission.