Director He and Director Wang, one is a prosecutor who has been engaged in the investigation of malfeasance in the procuratorial system for many years, and the other is a senior case handler of the Discipline Inspection Commission. Both of them have rich experience in interrogating criminal suspects. Therefore, when they began to interrogate Ye Ming, they were all full of confidence and thought that it would not take long to defeat Ye Ming's psychological defense line and let him confess completely.
According to their strategy, at the beginning of the trial, they first asked Ye Ming about the basic situation as usual, Director He, who was in charge of the trial, said directly: "Ye Ming, you are from the Local Taxation Bureau and a civil servant. You should know it in your mind: One of us is from the Procuratorate and the other is from the Discipline Inspection Commission. Now we are asking you for questions, there must be a reason. It must be that you are suspected of violating discipline and law or even committing crimes. According to the principle of frankness and lenientness and resistance to strict handling, we want to give you a chance first, let you take the initiative to confess and explain all your violations of discipline and law. The circumstances of your confession will be recorded. It can be used as the statutory lenient circumstances when you face disciplinary or criminal punishment in the future, which can reduce the punishment for you. We are not in a hurry. Give you ten minutes to consider it. In ten minutes, we hope you can truthfully explain your questions."
As he said that, Director He looked at his watch, nodded to Ye Ming, and signaled that he would consider the time for ten minutes to start counting now.
Ye Ming once heard Shi Yingkai have a meal when he heard him talk about the strategies of the police officers of the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Procuratorate when interrogating the suspects. He knew that they would use one trick first: don’t tell the suspect what evidence of his crimes, let him confess himself first, and tell him that he can try to be lenient. In this case, many suspects with poor psychological quality will feel panic and will guess in their minds whether the Procuratorate has mastered which corruption is evidence of bribery.
At that time, he was still tempted by the words "leniency" in his heart, so he began to explain some questions tentatively. The questions he explained were very likely to be new criminal acts that were not grasped by the procuratorate. In this way, the suspect's questions will become wider and wider, and the facts of illegal crimes will become more and more, and the procuratorate's gains will become bigger and bigger. Now the saying "Frankness is lenient, the more you will be lenient; resist strictness, go home for the New Year" is probably what it means to do.
Ye Ming remembers: Shi Yingkai also gave an example at that time, which was the case of corruption and bribery by a cadre of the Xinleng County Local Taxation Bureau in the 1990s. This case was sponsored by Shi Yingkai. The cadre involved was named Gan and named Gan Zhiyi. Before the incident, he was the head of the collection and management department of the Xinleng County Local Taxation Bureau. This section chief was very greedy, almost to the point of plucking his hair. There were many taxpayers who reported him and had been summoned several times by the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Procuratorate. However, Gan Zhiyi had a very good psychological quality and always insisted on not giving questions. The evidence provided by the whistleblower was insufficient. In addition, he had a good relationship with the leaders of the Local Taxation Bureau, so every time he was summoned by the leaders of the Local Taxation Bureau, he was taken back from the Procuratorate twenty-four hours after summoning him.
Later, when the Anti-Debt Investigation Bureau of Xinleng County Procuratorate investigated and dealt with a case of tax-enterprise collusion and using false tax evasion, it found that several copies were sent from the management station of the Xinleng County Local Taxation Bureau Collection and Management Department. So he wanted to summon Gan Zhiyi to find out the situation and ask him to identify whether those copies were sent out by their department, and he would also testify if necessary.
In fact, this case is indeed not related to Gan Zhiyi. However, Shi Yingkai, the director of the dereliction of duty, had heard about Gan Zhiyi's name for a long time. He knew that he had entered and left the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Procuratorate several times, but he had no evidence and refused to speak. So, when summoning Gan Zhiyi this time, Shi Yingkai played a trick, not telling him why he summoned him, but first asked him to think about what his problems he had and whether there was any illegal situation that needed to be confessed to the procuratorate.
Gan Zhiyi entered and left the procuratorate several times. Although she escaped unscrupulously every time, the so-called "If you walk too much at night, you will always encounter ghosts." He knew how serious his problems were. Therefore, after being summoned by Shi Yingkai again, he felt a little uneasy. After Shi Yingkai said those few words, although he still fought silently as before, he had a little panic in his expression.
This glimmering look did not escape the eyes of Shi Yingkai, who had a very rich experience in handling the case.
So he confronted Gan Zhiyi patiently, and both sides remained silent.
After half an hour, Shi Yingkai saw that fine beads of sweat began to seep from Gan Zhiyi's forehead, so he said unexpectedly: "Gan Zhiyi, I will tell you the truth: This time we summon you, there is conclusive evidence. I hope you can think clearly and not miss the best time to confess. After we have shown you the relevant evidence, if you want to confess, you can only be considered a truthful confession, and not a frank explanation. That cannot be used as a matter of reducing punishment. If you hear it clearly, you will not be able to hear it."
In fact, Shi Yingkai's words were still a means of "fraud", because at this time he did not have any evidence of Gan Zhiyi's illegal crime. What he called "conclusive evidence" actually refers to the evidence of the ** case, not Gan Zhiyi's criminal evidence.
This ambiguous words made Gan Zhiyi even more guilty. After hesitating for a long time, he raised his head and asked hesitantly: "Director Shi, I really can't remember any problems with me. If you have any evidence, can you give me some tips to see if I can remember it."
Shi Yingkai couldn't help but feel happy when he heard what he said: It seems that there is definitely a chance today. Generally speaking, if the suspect asks the person to be interrogated to provide some clues, then he just wants to explain, but he still has a lucky mentality in his heart, hoping to explain only the problems mastered by the procuratorate and not want to bring out other problems in himself.
So, Shi Yingkai reminded him: "You are responsible for the purchase and approval of ** in the collection and management department. Have you ever provided ** to taxpayers for personal gain without permission?"
As soon as this was said, Gan Zhiyi's expression changed drastically, and sweat beads on her face rolled down. After a long time of stuttering, she finally began to explain that he had privately provided some builders with ** to assist them in evading huge taxes, and then he himself withdraws 20% of the benefits from it. None of the criminal facts he confessed was the situation that the procuratorate had grasped in advance, and it was purely an unexpected gain.
Next, according to Gan Zhiyi's confession, Shi Yingkai immediately took criminal detention measures against him and detained him in a detention center. Then he increased the interrogation efforts again and again, forcing him to confess other corruption and bribery activities involving more than 2 million yuan...
Because he knew these interrogation skills of the procuratorate, after listening to Director He’s inducing words, Ye Ming did not "think about it" carefully as he asked, but smiled and said, "Director He, I have nothing to think about. I can tell you clearly: I have no violations of discipline and law, and there are any issues that need to be confessed and confessed."