Documentary revealed: the traffic law enforcement team leader in a major coal-producing county is a feather-pulling person and the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection is directly supervising it.

The television documentary “Safeguard” co-produced by the Propaganda Department of the Shanxi Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision and Shanxi Radio and Television Station has been fully broadcast. The documentary disclosed the issues of arbitrary law enforcement, corruption in requesting or accepting bribes, taking advantage of one’s position to seek personal gain, and bullying the masses by some Party members and cadres of the Transportation Bureau in Lingshi County, Jinzhong City. The case was directly supervised by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Committee of the State Council.
In April 2024, an article titled “Lingshi County Transportation Bureau Law Enforcement Officers Extorting Money from Truck Drivers” quickly spread on social media. The Shanxi Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision attached great importance to this case and handled it at a higher level. Only one week later, three people, including Li Guohua, Zhao Jing, and Guo Wenhao of the Lingshi County Transportation Comprehensive Administrative Enforcement Team, were investigated and surveyed.
The documentary introduces that Lingshi County is rich in coal resources, and coal transportation vehicles frequently pass through. The Multi-purpose Detection Stations under the Transportation Bureau are responsible for超载检测and law enforcement for passing large vehicles. However, in the hands of the former leader of the third unit of the Transportation Comprehensive Administrative Enforcement Team, Li Guohua and others, the “Overweight Detection Station” was异化into a tool for personal gain. Li Guohua and his colleagues were not picky about bribes such as cigarettes, recharge cards for hot pot shops, and shopping cards in supermarkets, and even actively demanded bribes from these companies. As time went on, many local businesses and individual operators avoided the trouble of coordinating multiple times and even set up a “monthly card” service at the third unit.
The documentary claimed that it was not uncommon for Li Guohua and his colleagues to accept bribes from truck drivers, ranging from three or five hundred yuan to tens of thousands of yuan in just four years. There were over 110 instances where they accepted property from vehicle owners, with cigarettes alone worth over 130,000 yuan. For those vehicle owners who regularly “offered tribute,” whether they were overweight became a secondary issue. To prevent their activities from being exposed, Li Guohua and his colleagues even often suggested or encouraged truck drivers to provide false information when handling release procedures. For example, when releasing a truck driver surnamed Yan, they used the identity information of a person named “Zhang Feng” instead and handled the release procedures with this fake information. A staff member of the Lingshi County Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision explained that this operation was done so that if someone reported it in the future, because the information did not match the system’s records, their activities would not be exposed.
After investigation, Li Guohua and his two colleagues were found to have provided illegal assistance to businesses or individuals in road law enforcement inspections, overweight and overload control, source inspections for excessive weights, and other areas for a long time in exchange for bribes totaling more than 440,000 yuan.
The documentary disclosed that after the case occurred, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Committee attached great importance to it and supervised it directly. The main leaders of the Shanxi Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection personally took charge of the case, and a joint provincial and municipal task force was quickly established to fully investigate the issues reflected in public opinion. Currently, Li Guohua has been sentenced to three years in prison for bribery, while Wen Xiangyang, the director of Lingshi County Transportation Bureau, has also been investigated for accepting bribes totaling over 4.2 million yuan.

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