CCTV News:Recently, Hunan police informed the outside world that Chen Jieren, the Internet magnate, was subjected to criminal compulsory measures by Hunan police for being suspected of illegal business operation and extortion. Chen Jieren is an active Internet V on the self-media platform, and Chen Jieren has accumulated hundreds of thousands of fans through 21 self-media accounts such as Weibo, WeChat official account and Tiaotiao. Then, how can Chen Jieren, who is known as "dare to speak" and "dare to reveal the truth", be suspected of illegal business operation and extortion?
Li Xiaoyan, a representative of Shaodong County People’s Congress, knew Chen Jieren because of a special lecture on "Ten New Accomplishments of Young Entrepreneurs in the New Era" in April this year. Li Xiaoyan was a representative of young entrepreneurs attending the lecture, and Chen Jieren was a guest speaker invited by the organizer from Beijing. During the lecture, Chen Jie people claimed that they had worked in a prestigious school and were one of the most active young current affairs critics at present.
Malicious speculation, trouble, crazy extortion and wealth collection
After the meeting, Li Xiaoyan joined Chen Jieren’s WeChat and became a friend in the WeChat circle. What Li Xiaoyan didn’t expect was that just two months later, she was suddenly kicked out of the WeChat circle of friends by Chen Jieren. Subsequently, two posts written by Chen Jie people and his brother were widely forwarded in the circle of friends. One was "Li Xiaoyan disregard for human life, a representative of the people’s congress with black heart in Shaodong County, Hunan Province, added a new grave", and the other was "After the cemetery incident, primary and secondary school students in Shaoyang, Hunan Province protested disregard for human life, a representative of the people’s congress".
In Li Xiaoyan’s view, the contents of these two articles are completely untrue. Because of the recurrence of an old disease, an employee of his company was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. During the rescue process, the employee’s family found the hospital and voluntarily signed off the treatment. Eventually, the employee died of illness at home. In these two WeChat articles, Li Xiaoyan abruptly described the incident as Li Xiaoyan’s "disregard for human life". In order to eliminate the adverse effects, Li Xiaoyan quickly found Chen Jieren’s younger brother Chen Weiren and took out relevant evidence to ask them to delete it. After some negotiations, Chen Weiren promised to delete the post "Li Xiaoyan, a representative of the People’s Congress of Shaodong County, Hunan Province, adds a new grave", on the condition that the fee is 20,000 yuan.
After Chen Weiren accepted 20,000 yuan, he told Li Xiaoyan that if he wanted to delete the post of his brother Chen Jieren, he would have to pay extra and the fee was very high. After Li Xiaoyan refused this request, friends around Li Xiaoyan, including leaders of some party and government departments in Shaoyang, began to receive posts from Chen Jieren. Chen Jieren told them that "this matter has become big" and "the consequences are serious". At the same time, Chen Jieren asked his younger brother Chen Weiren to claim compensation of 880,000 yuan on behalf of the family of the deceased.
Li Xiaoyan, deputy of Shaodong County People’s Congress: "At that time, the leaders called me to work, including my supervisor and the leaders of the provincial people’s congress. Anyway, all the leaders involved with me were dispatched, saying that you should take care of the overall situation."
In the end, Li Xiaoyan chose to compromise and signed a mediation agreement with the family of the deceased. In the name of compensation, she gave the family of the deceased 300,000 yuan, and the local government also paid the family of the deceased 580,000 yuan. Chen Jieren illegally gained a lot of benefits from it.
Playing political cards and collecting money in the name of "supervision by public opinion"
In the eyes of many people who have paid attention to Chen Jieren, he often attacks various social injustices on the Internet, and shows no mercy to some leading cadres. He is a fighter who is keen on pursuing fairness and justice. Little known is that Chen Jieren has accumulated tens of millions of assets in just a few years and bought more than 10 properties in Beijing and Changsha. So how did Chen Jieren turn "supervision by public opinion" into an industry?
Chen Jieren, a self-proclaimed "critic", published more than 3,000 negative articles such as hype, attack and exposure through his 21 self-media accounts in more than five years. With the arrest of Chen Jieren, the price behind these articles also surfaced. The suspect Shimou is a businessman who is doing business in Bijie, Guizhou. After several years of inconclusive negotiations, Shimou was introduced to Chen Jieren in 2017, and after paying a down payment of 100,000 yuan to Beijing Hualin Consulting Company in Chen Jieren, the two sides met.
Defamation threatens local governments to achieve illegal profits.
So how did Chen Jieren help Shimou settle this matter after accepting the entrustment? A few months later, some leaders and representatives who were attending the inaugural meeting of Bijie Chamber of Commerce in Guizhou in Beijing received such an article — — "Blocking or showing off wealth? Guizhou Bijie held a poverty alleviation report meeting in Beijing luxury hotel. This article lashed out at the meeting on the grounds that the meeting place was luxurious and gift bags were illegally distributed. At the same time, it also listed details such as Shimou’s investment in Bijie, pointing to the inaction of the main leaders in Bijie. The author of this article is Chen Jieren. Subsequently, several other WeChat WeChat official account operated by Chen Jieren also published articles with the same content. After these articles were forwarded by many people, local leaders who could not withstand the pressure of public opinion were finally forced to re-sign the land use agreement according to Shimou’s conditions.
After the job was done, Shimou paid Chen Jieren 1.4 million yuan in compensation. This article about the so-called poverty alleviation meeting in luxury hotels was completely untrue after investigation by the task force. The so-called Poverty Alleviation Association in Chen Jieren is actually a poverty alleviation action initiated by entrepreneurs, and the so-called gift bags only contain conference materials.
In the face of police interrogation, Chen Jieren explained his motivation for writing these articles.
The suspect Chen Jieren.On the surface, my article is to maintain the reputation of poverty alleviation work and oppose the extravagant poverty alleviation conference, but the real background of this article is to exert strong pressure on the leaders of Bijie City to force them to solve Shimou’s land problem.
Chen Jieren told the police handling the case that his routine is called "playing the political card", that is, infinitely magnifying the minor flaws and problems in local work and putting them on the line, commenting on them at a political height, and using the cautious psychology of leading cadres on political sensitivity, forcing them to submit in order to prevent the expansion of political risks. The routine used at the same time as "playing political cards" also includes "combining hard and soft skills", that is, on the one hand, keeping a close eye on the hot spots of local work, and adopting methods such as pulling braids and putting labels on them to create negative public opinion and make local cadres fear him, on the other hand, in the name of spreading positive energy, publicly praising leading cadres who obey him at all costs.
In December 2016, Chen Jieren published an article entitled "Discussion with Hunan Environmental Protection Director: Green Development Can’t Just Say Without Practice", which exposed that villagers in Yejia Village, Shuangfeng County, his hometown, brought dead chickens and ducks to the county government to petition and complained about the incidents caused by river water pollution. After forwarding and fermenting, the article attracted the leaders of Hunan Provincial Environmental Protection Department to make a field trip, and soon a river dredging project started in Yejia Village. The contractor of this project is Chen Jieren’s cousin’s company, and the specific organization construction is Chen Jieren’s younger brother Chen Minren. So how did Chen Minren and others, who have neither qualification nor bidding procedures, win this project? According to Chen Minren’s account, it was Chen Jieren who found the grassroots cadres, claiming that it was his credit to win funds for pollution control, and his younger brother Chen Minren had to do the dredging project, so he signed a contract with local cadres as a threat.
The police investigation found that the so-called villagers’ petition was nothing more than a farce created by Chen Jie’s younger brother Chen Weiren in search of materials. Moreover, this dredging project cost less than 2 million yuan in the early stage, but under the guidance of Chen Jieren, Chen Minren made the budget more than 6 million yuan, and the project payment in advance reached 3 million yuan. After successfully winning the dredging project, Chen Jieren successively published many articles praising the environmental protection department in WeChat official account.
In recent years, Chen Jieren has used the media to engage in illegal activities, and accumulated tens of millions of yuan in a few years. The victims of extortion include not only business owners and ordinary people, but also some government departments and party and government cadres, covering 11 provinces and cities such as Hunan, Jiangxi and Guizhou. For example, colluding with many coal mine bosses in Loudi City to prevent the local government from shutting down small coal mines; Contact with the heads of some fireworks production enterprises in Liuyang to put pressure on the Hunan provincial government’s "ban on guns" action. Every hype, Chen Jieren charges millions of yuan.
Double-faced life under the banner of "feelings for home and country"
On the Internet, Chen Jieren often flaunts his "feelings for home and country" as "criticizing because of love; Because I yearn for a better future, I can’t tolerate mistakes. " So, is Chen Jieren really saying that "so criticism" is "because of love"? What different faces does Chen Jieren have in real life?
In Qingshuping Town, Shuangfeng County, Hunan Province, there is a luxury villa covering an area of more than 2,200 square meters. The owner of the largest luxury house in this area is Chen Jieren. Chen Jie people named the mansion "Fudetang" and engraved "Dragon and Tiger Spirit, Feelings for Home and Country" on the door couplet of the house.
Chen Jieren, who earned hundreds of millions on the Internet, used to be an ordinary farmer’s son here. After graduating from technical secondary school, he worked as a local township cadre. Later, he studied in Tsinghua University at his own expense. After graduation, he worked in some well-known media, but all of them were expelled from the company for reporting false news. Later, Chen Jieren began to wander around the Internet platform, making use of network hotspots to make a name for himself by "breaking the news" and "daring to speak". At the same time, he fabricated his own resume for a prestigious school, hyped himself and sought personal gain in the name of public opinion supervision. In the end, Chen Jieren not only derailed his life, but also brought his family to the criminal road of illegal profit.
Family-style crime only recognizes money and does not recognize family ties.
According to preliminary investigations by the police, Chen Jieren and his ex-wife, lover, younger brother and others have formed a "family-style" criminal gang: Chen Jieren is responsible for commanding and dispatching, managing WeChat WeChat official account, drafting and publishing articles; His ex-wife is responsible for financial management; The lover is responsible for representing the case, collecting internal information and assisting Chen Jieren to manage WeChat WeChat official account; His brothers Chen Weiren and Chen Minren are responsible for taking orders, operating offline, and collecting speculation clues.
At this time, Chen Jieren has completely changed from "criticizing because of love" to "criticizing because of money", and Chen Jiewen, a fellow villager of Chen Jieren, is deeply touched by this. Just because of a charge for installing a water meter in a new house in Chen Jieren, Chen Jieren violently attacked himself among the owners.
Chen Jiewen, a fellow villager in Chen Jieren"He said I was a water tiger, more powerful than an electric tiger."
In the view of Chen Jiewen, a fellow villager, he is Chen Jieren’s uncle for generations, and his fees are approved by the local government. Chen Jieren should not attack himself. Unexpectedly, Chen Jieren not only encouraged other owners to refuse to pay fees, but also assumed a posture of pleading for the people.
The police investigation also found that Chen Jie criminal gangs wantonly attacked and slandered party and government cadres, state organs, judicial departments and enterprises in the name of "supervision by public opinion" in order to gain illegal benefits. In order to legalize the profit-making business supervised by public opinion, Chen Jieren also bought an office with an area of more than 300 square meters in "Baili Building" in Yuelu District, Changsha City, and hung two signboards, namely "Beijing Hualin Management Consulting Co., Ltd." and "Fiona Fang Think Tank Hunan Research Center", claiming to be "the founder of China Fiona Fang Think Tank".
Zhou Wenwei, a policeman of Chenzhou Public Security Bureau: "It has had a great negative impact on the local party committees and governments, and has affected their decision-making. This is the first one. Second, it hyped up this judicial organ, which seriously interfered with judicial justice and affected the normal proceedings. His practice is hype through network information, which has also had a great negative impact on our Internet environment. "
In the interview, the reporter learned that some local government officials, for fear of Chen Jieren’s media hype, "please" and "woo" Chen Jieren, made a special "visit" during the Chinese New Year holiday to show mercy to Chen Jieren. At present, the supervisory department is simultaneously investigating the public officials involved.
