The 55-year-old Shi Xiong Pingyuan is the director of the Administration Department of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation. At 9:20 yesterday morning, Shi Xiping, who was released on bail pending trial, appeared in the court gallery early. When the presiding judge sat down and the court was ready, he slowly walked into the trial seat.
The prosecutors alleged that in October 1996, Shi Xiongping took advantage of his position to instruct his subsidiary Xinmao Comprehensive Commercial Community to use public funds to pay the intermediary fee for his personal purchase of a house in Huayan Beili, Chaoyang District.** *A total of more than 202,000 yuan was later divided equally by Xinmao Comprehensive Commercial Community. (It is reported that due to the irregularity of the housing agency market at that time, agents increased prices at will, and the agency fees for houses worth millions of yuan amounted to more than 200,000 yuan). Prosecutors believe that Shi Xiongping should be held criminally responsible for corruption.
"This is nonsense, this is a false accusation against me." In court, Shi Xiongping denied the prosecution's accusations. He claimed that the house involved in the case did not belong to him, but was bought by his father-in-law. As for why it was written in his wife’s name, Shi Xiongping said he did not know at the time.
According to Shi Xiongping, in 1996, when he was the director of the Administrative Department of the former Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, he used the interest balance of a sum of money to buy a public house in Huayan Beili, Chaoyang District, and this house Just diagonally opposite his father-in-law's house. He asked Xinmao General Chamber of Commerce, the former tertiary industry unit of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, to pay the agency fee for this public house. He didn't know why the agency also paid the agency fee for his father-in-law's house in the end.
Relevant evidence shows that Shi Xiongping claimed that the delivery and payment time for this public house and his father-in-law’s house were only more than 10 days apart. During the cross-examination stage, the prosecutor presented the testimonies of multiple witnesses. One of the witnesses said that he had shown Shi Xiaoping the two houses, and another witness also said that he had been instructed by Shi Xiaoping to pay the agency fees for the two houses. .
The court adjourned at 4 p.m. and no verdict was announced.