What was the verdict of Yao Jinqi in the first instance?

As a result of the verdict, Yao Jinqi, a deputy county magistrate in Zhejiang Province, was found guilty of accepting bribes and was sentenced to six years in prison and a fine of RMB 3 million. The bribes and property received and the interest thereon shall be recovered.

Who is Yao Jinqi? ?

Yao Jinqi is our country’s first corrupt official who has been successfully extradited from an EU country!

Yao Jinqi once served as member of the Standing Committee of the Xinchang County Party Committee and executive deputy county magistrate of Zhejiang Province. During his tenure as deputy county magistrate, Yao Jinqi took advantage of his position and repeatedly accepted huge financial bribes from others.

After the incident was exposed, Yao Jinqi immediately fled to Bulgaria, an EU country. With the help of others, he illegally obtained a false identity and obtained a passport, and used the passport to illegally enter and exit my country's borders many times.

After that, Yao Jinqi successfully obtained the green card of Bulgaria, an EU country, and now he has become a citizen of the EU country. However, in recent years, our party's centralized and unified leadership of anti-corruption work has been further strengthened, and many cases of fugitive pursuit and stolen property have been completed, and Yao Jinqi was successfully extradited from Bulgaria and returned to China. Thirteen years after his hasty escape, Yao Jinqi finally ended his life of panic.

The Shaoxing Municipal People’s Procuratorate accused: From 1991 to 2005, the defendant Yao Jinqi used his position as the Party Committee Secretary and Director of the Xinchang County Changzhao Reservoir Management Bureau, the Party Committee Secretary and Director of the Xinchang County Finance Bureau (Local Taxation Bureau), Director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Bureau, member of the Standing Committee of the Xinchang County Party Committee, deputy county magistrate, etc., provide assistance to relevant units and individuals in matters such as enterprise restructuring, capital turnover, and project development. From 1996 to 2017, Yao Jinqi, alone or together with others, repeatedly received property from the heads of the above-mentioned units and individuals, totaling a total of 52.10395 million yuan and 100,000 Hong Kong dollars. At that time, it was an astonishing sum.

On October 26, 2018, the defendant Yao Jinqi, who was previously listed as a "Red Notice Person", expressed to the Chinese Embassy that he would voluntarily return to China for investigation. He was later extradited back to China on November 30 of the same year and brought to justice. Later, he truthfully confessed the crime. Yao Jinqi's relatives have returned all the stolen money and goods on their behalf. He surrendered, so he was sentenced as appropriate. Otherwise, given the prevailing prices, the death penalty would not be an exaggeration for accepting such a large amount of bribes.