Case 5: Beijing lawyer Li was sentenced for accepting bribes

scanning: time:2024-10-22
(Logically speaking, lawyers are not national public officials and are not common subjects of bribery crimes. However, lawyers who use their friendship with judicial personnel to assist judicial personnel in accepting bribes or use their relationship with judicial organs to directly accept bribes are mostly crimes of using influence to accept bribes. Some constitute both the crime of bribery and the crime of accepting bribes)

Administrative Penalty Decision of Beijing City Bureau of Justice-Jingsi Penalty Decision [2024] No. 5

Release time: June 05, 2024

Party concerned: Li *, male, Han nationality, born on ****, ID card number ******, lawyer of Beijing City Kangda Law Firm.

Address: ***************.

After investigation, on April 26, 2023, you were sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined RMB 3 million by the People's Court of Qinhuai District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province for committing bribery. On August 10, 2023, the second-instance ruling upheld the original sentence and the judgment has taken effect. The above facts are confirmed by the criminal judgment of the Qinhuai District People's Court of Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, the criminal ruling of the Intermediate People's Court of Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, the interrogation record, a copy of your ID card, and the lawyer's practice information.

Our bureau believes that you have been criminally punished for intentional crime, which falls within the circumstances specified in Article 49, paragraph 2 of the Lawyers Law. After collective discussion and research by the person in charge of our bureau, it is decided to impose an administrative penalty on you of revoking your lawyer's practice certificate.

If you refuse to accept this penalty decision, you may file an administrative review with the Beijing City People's Government or the Ministry of Justice within 60 days from the date of receiving the administrative penalty decision, or you may directly file an administrative lawsuit with the Tongzhou District People's Court of Beijing City within six months.

Beijing City Bureau of Justice

June 5, 2024