Lawyer Gao Peng defended efficiently, and the online pursuit of fugitive suspects in major and difficult cases was not approved for arrest

2023 03/15

Recently, Mr. Wu Xiaohui, a senior partner of Gaopeng Law Firm, and Mr. Yang Fan were entrusted to act as defenders for suspects involved in an illegal mining crime. In this case, Gao Peng's legal team only took 10 days from accepting the entrustment to the procuratorate's decision not to approve the arrest, and the efficient work efficiency and professional legal services won the recognition and praise of the parties.

The case was an illegal exploitation act arising from a government project, involving not only certain government departments and relevant personnel, but also a number of suspects, including the client, and caused serious environmental damage, which attracted great attention from relevant departments. In terms of case handling procedures, not only the public security organs opened the case for investigation, but also the supervision committee also initiated an investigation. This case is a major, difficult and complex case, with a high amount of money involved and a large social impact.

The suspect always believed that he had no facts of breaking the law or committing a crime, and because he did not arrive in time to cooperate with the investigation, he was listed as an online fugitive, and after criminal detention, he was planned to be the main perpetrator of the joint crime. After our lawyers intervened in the investigation stage, they immediately met with the suspect to understand the case, investigated the relevant evidence, and initially believed that there were many doubts in the case, the facts were not clear, the evidence was insufficient, and applied for the modification of the compulsory measures, but the investigating authority did not approve the case on the grounds that the case was serious, the suspect was wanted online, and there was a possibility of evading investigation, and soon submitted the case to the procuratorate for approval of arrest.

During the review and approval stage, the case was handled by a railway procuratorate, which was nearly 400 kilometers away from the detention center where the suspect was detained, which made it extremely difficult to meet and communicate legal opinions with the procurator under limited time. Based on the defender's belief that the facts of the case were unclear, the evidence was insufficient and there was no need to continue detention, the defender communicated with the procurator by telephone several times and traveled thousands of miles to communicate face-to-face, and conducted a full and effective analysis from the perspectives of ascertaining the facts of the case, correctly applying the law, and connecting with the results of the investigation of the supervision committee, and finally the procurator adopted the defender's legal opinion and made the decision not to approve the arrest at the first time.

In the process of handling the case, the defender and the prosecutor based on the concept of the legal professional community and in line with the common goal of ascertaining the facts of the case and accurately applying the law, so that the case has achieved phased results and laid a good foundation for the final handling results.


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