After that, Zhou Yingqi sued the court for divorce, and in order to show her love, Zhao Xiaojie promised to go through the divorce procedures with her daughter-in-law immediately and marry her after the divorce. In order to gain Zhou Yingqi's trust, he also handed over a bank card to Zhou Yingqi, and transferred his salary, bonuses and other income to the card for her use.

At the beginning of 2011, the leadership of the group company was adjusted, and Zhao Xiaojie wanted to win the position of assistant general manager, so he found Zhou Yingqi and asked her to use her position to greet the relevant leaders of the company and seek improper benefits for him in the promotion. After that, Zhao Xiaojie got his wish and got the position of assistant to the general manager.

In March 2011, Zhao Xiaojie sued the court for divorce, during which Zhou Yingqi wanted to buy a house, because it was inconvenient to transfer money to Zhou Yingqi during the litigation, Zhao Xiaojie borrowed 3.1 million yuan from a friend and remitted it to Zhou Yingqi's bank card for her use.

At the beginning of 2013, Zhao Xiaojie was transferred to the subsidiary as deputy general manager. In July of the same year, Zhao Xiaojie instructed his subordinates to operate projects in violation of regulations, resulting in the cultural projects invested by the subsidiary being defrauded by the partner of more than 50 million yuan. Subsequently, the public security authorities intervened and began to investigate the relevant projects, and the company immediately launched an internal investigation.

Afraid of being held accountable, Zhao Xiaojie asked Zhou Yingqi to help deal with the matter. Zhou Yingqi found the relevant person in charge of the group to intercede for Zhao Xiaojie, and informed Zhao Xiaojie of all the information he learned from participating in the relevant meeting.

In the end, the company held Zhao Xiaojie accountable lightly in the handling of the incident, criticized him, and deducted all his year-end bonuses.

In November of the same year, Zhao Xiaojie transferred 1.2 million yuan to Zhou Yingqi in three installments.

After the two confirmed their relationship, at the urging of Zhou Yingqi, Zhao Xiaojie sued for divorce three times, but all of them were rejected by the court.

In June 2014, in order to compensate Zhou Yingqi, Zhao Xiaojie took out another 2 million yuan and gave it to Zhou Yingqi by transfer.

After that, Zhou Yingqi found that Zhao Xiaojie was getting more and more greedy, and his temper was getting bigger and bigger, and finally the two had a big fight and ended the lover relationship.

At the end of 2015, Zhao Xiaojie was reported because he was too ugly. Subsequently, Zhou Yingqi was arrested.

"According to your statement, only 1.88 million of the more than 800,000 is the money you received at Zhao Xiaojie's request, and the rest is the fee paid to you by Zhao Xiaojie in order to maintain the lover relationship with you, right?" Fang Yi said.

"Yes. I understand that's so. Zhou Yingqi nodded.

"From the point of view of time, your statement will make people have reasonable suspicions, the cultural project was deceived in the past, you helped Zhao Xiaojie to deal with the matter later, after the matter was settled, he gave you three sums of money, one for 400,000 yuan, one for 500,000 yuan, and 300,000 yuan, these three sums of money are very easy to relate to, a little indescribable.

The procuratorate will definitely think that these three sums of money are the benefits that you have done for him and he has given you. According to you, these three sums of money have nothing to do with the deception of cultural projects, which is indeed a bit difficult to explain. Fang Yi said.

"But these three sums of money are indeed the money to maintain the relationship between our lovers, not the benefit fee." Zhou Yingqi argued.

"How is your relationship with your husband now?" Fang Yi asked suddenly.

"We divorced a long time ago, the first time was to go to the court, and the court didn't decide. Later, we had a cold war for nearly half a year, and finally reached an agreement to go through the divorce procedures. Zhou Yingqi said lightly.

"Do your parents know?" Fang Yi asked.

"They didn't know that my parents were against our divorce at the time, so after the divorce, I didn't tell them." Zhou Yingqi said.

"To what extent do you have a relationship with Zhao Xiaojie?" Fang Yi asked.

"I've been waiting for him to get a divorce, and the marriage room is optimistic. We basically eat and live together, and his income is all placed with me, so there is only one certificate between us. Zhou Yingqi said expressionlessly.

"When did you start living together?" Fang Yi said.

"After he filed for divorce, we lived together until the end of the relationship." Zhou Yingqi said lightly.

"Well, let's look at it a little more and see if it's appropriate to defend it from that angle. Let's talk about the 300,000 that Jiayue Company gave you, what's going on with the 300,000? Fang Yi asked.

"We have a supplier, it's a technology company, it's very well-known in the local area, and we have to put up a tender every year for the purchase of items. Because of the business relationship, I know the CEO of that company, and I have a good relationship with their general assistant.

Zhao Xiaojie knew that I had a good relationship with the general assistant of that technology company, so he asked me to say hello to the general assistant and pull business for Jiayue Company.

Zhao Xiaojie's niece Zou Jia studied English and graduated from a relatively ordinary college, so she never found a suitable job; Niece Zhao Yue didn't study well, got a college diploma, and used to do business in a small company.

In fact, Jiayue Company was co-founded by Zhao Xiaojie and his niece and niece, Zou Jia is the legal representative, Zhao Yue is the general manager, Jiayue Company wants to do business with technology companies but Zhao Xiaojie's face is not enough, and people ignore him, so he found me and asked me to help. Zhou Yingqi said.

"Later, did Jiayue get business from a technology company?" Fang Yi asked.

"Well, under the arrangement of the general assistant, it is said that I got a lot of good business, and later in order to thank me for my help, Zhao Xiaojie gave me 300,000 yuan, saying that it was given by Jiayue Company." Zhou Yingqi said.

"Did you take the initiative to confess these payments, or were they found?" Fang Yi asked.

"They found it, and after I was arrested, they put a stack of bank transfer records in front of me, and they found more than 8 million of them. It's been so long since I can't remember. Zhou Yingqi said.

"What did you do with the money you just mentioned?" Fang Yi asked.

"I bought two apartments, one in the city and one in the capital. Also bought a car. Zhou Yingqi said.

"Are all the money for the purchase of the house and the car the money given to you by Zhao Xiaojie?" Fang Yi asked.

"The money he gave me for the three-bedroom house in the city, about one-third of the purchase price of the house in the capital is his money, and the rest is my own money. The car was bought with his money.

These two houses have been seized and the cars have been seized, will they all be recovered? Zhou Yingqi asked with concern.

"According to article 64 of the Criminal Law, all property illegally obtained by criminals shall be recovered or ordered to be returned.

In judicial practice, the principle grasped by the judicial organs is not to allow the defendant to profit from the violation or crime, and the criminal's unlawful gains and their proceeds shall be recovered together.

For unlawful gains, the original items shall generally be recovered.

I'll give you an example, and you'll get the idea. If Zhao Xiaojie gives you a house, the judicial authorities will recover the house. Moreover, in recent years, the price of houses has grown rapidly, and the value of the house at the time of seizure may be several times or more than ten times the market price at the time of receipt, but in judicial practice, the amount of bribes is generally determined according to the value of the house at the time of the defendant's acceptance.

However, in the case of recovery, not only the value of the house at the time of receipt in the current year, but also the house itself will be recovered. In other words, the amount of bribes is determined according to the price of the house at the time, but the property must be recovered in full.

If the house is sold after receiving it, the court will recover the sale price obtained by the defendant if the purchaser acquired the house in good faith.

Your situation is not the same as the one above, which is the purchase of a house after receiving the payment, which is a different situation. Fang Yi explained.

(End of chapter)