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Successful Defense of Zhou Wenda and Li Wei: Overseas Students Suspected of Buying and Selling Official Documents of State Organs Due to “Beijing Hukou” Not Prosecuted at Last
Released on:2024-08-21

Recently, Beijing King&Capital Law Firm's Zhou Wenda and Li Wei lawyers represented an overseas student who was suspected of the crime of buying and selling official documents of state organs, and after the lawyers' timely and effective defense, the procuratorial authorities eventually made a decision of not prosecuting the client, which achieved substantial defense results.

On May 7, 2020, the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau issued the Circular on the Issuance of Work Specifications for Handling Illegal and Illegal Accounts, which provides for the inventory and cancellation of erroneous accounts, duplicate accounts, and illegal and illegitimate accounts.2021 On February 5, 2021, the Beijing Municipal Government issued the Circular on Deepening and Promoting the “14th Five-Year Plan” Period. On February 5, 2021, the Beijing Municipal Government issued a notice on the “Implementation Opinions on Deepening the Advancement of the Special Action of ‘Dismantling, Rectifying and Promoting Enhancement’ during the ‘14th Five-Year Plan’ Period”, which called for the dissolution of non-capital functions and the management of the “big-city disease”. Against this backdrop, a number of “intermediaries” who had been engaged in “assisting settlement” were arrested.

In this case, the person in question was a returnee who had studied abroad and, through the arrangement of an “intermediary”, did not actually work for a company with a settlement quota, but had the company pay his social security contributions and wages on his behalf, and then applied for a letter of introduction and other settlement documents in violation of the law, in order to obtain a household registration in Beijing. The “intermediary” personnel by the public security organs suspected of buying and selling official documents of state organs crime investigation, the client is involved.

Lawyer in the examination and prosecution stage after accepting the commission, the first time to the procuratorial organs to retrieve all the case files, after detailed reading, many times to meet with the party concerned, write not to prosecute the defense opinions, and focus on the nature of the party's behavior, criminal circumstances and other issues many times with the prosecutor to undertake in-depth communication.

Eventually, the procuratorial authorities adopted the lawyer's advice, the party made a decision not to prosecute, realize the organic unity of the legal effect and social effect.