On December 29, the Intermediate People's Court of Tonghua City, Jilin Province delivered a judgment in the first instance on the bribery case of Sun Hongbin, the former vice chairman of Jilin CPPCC. The defendant Sun Hongbin was sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of 8 years and a fine of 500000 yuan for accepting bribes; The stolen money and goods obtained from bribery shall be confiscated according to law and turned over to the State Treasury. The court found through trial that from December 2009 to the Spring Festival of 2018, Sun Hongbin, the defendant, took advantage of his position as the deputy director and director of Jilin Hi tech Management Committee and the chairman of Jilin Xinbei Investment Co., Ltd. to seek benefits for others in terms of project contracting, project funds allocation, land acquisition, enterprise financing, etc., and illegally received properties from others for many times, amounting to more than 8.45 million yuan. Tonghua Intermediate People's Court held that, in view of Sun Hongbin's truthful confession of some of the bribery facts that the case handling organ has mastered and his initiative to account for most of the bribery facts that the case handling organ has not mastered, it is frank; Actively report and expose crimes committed by others, with meritorious circumstances; Plead guilty and repent, actively return all the stolen money, and may be given a mitigated punishment according to law. The court thus rendered the above judgment. (Outlook New Times)