"The second matter occurred while I was serving as Qingning City's Public Security Director. Wang Qiong approached me on behalf of a certain provincial leader and had me release a criminal suspect in a case involving deliberately driving into people and killing them. By arranging for someone else to take the blame, fabricating evidence, coordinating false testimony, and threatening and compensating the victims' families, we ultimately had the case classified as a traffic offense causing casualties..."
Deputy Procurator-General Xu Feifeng frowned. She had heard of this case.
About three years earlier, a serious car crash in central Qingning City had left five people dead and seven injured. The criminal suspect had ultimately been sentenced to five years in prison for a traffic offense causing casualties, along with civil damages.
Five lives lost and seven people injured, yet the sentence had been only five years. It sounded almost unbelievable.
But for a traffic offense causing casualties, that was already a relatively severe sentence! It was a standard outcome consistent with the criminal law provision stipulating that "anyone who flees after causing a traffic accident or whose offense involves other particularly egregious circumstances shall be sentenced to imprisonment of no less than three years and no more than seven years."
Yet according to Fang Hang's confession, not only had this case not been a traffic offense causing casualties, even the person sentenced had been a substitute brought in to take the blame!
The words "Wang Qiong acted on behalf of a provincial leader" set both Xu Feifeng's and Feng Yaliang's hearts pounding.
Without an immensely powerful figure behind it, why would Wang Qiong have intervened? And why would Fang Hang have obediently done as he was told?
Moreover, judging by the entire process, the Municipal Public Security Bureau could not have been