Leng Dewu

Leng Dewu, a bachelor of law from Peking University, a member of the All-China Lawyers Association, and a member of the Beijing Municipal Lawyers Association, is a senior criminal defense attorney at Beijing Hengluo Law Firm. With 15 years of legal practice experience, his years of legal work have accumulated rich case-handling experience for him, and continuous professional learning has laid a solid foundation in legal knowledge. Over the years, he has adhered to the practice philosophy of "concentrating on one thing at a time, persevering in it, and achieving success through constant effort". This has enabled him to provide excellent criminal defense for many clients and high-quality legal services for many parties involved in criminal cases, earning him a good reputation and positive feedback from clients.

Attorney Leng Dewu specializes in criminal defense and representation in criminal cases. Since the beginning of his legal career, Attorney Leng has handled hundreds of various criminal cases, including cases of official crimes, economic crimes, financial crimes, corruption and bribery crimes, drug-related crimes, smuggling crimes, and various major public security cases. Among these cases, he has handled many classic ones. The charges he has personally handled and defended include: fund-raising fraud; illegal absorption of public deposits; corruption and bribery; embezzlement of public funds; smuggling; embezzlement of official property; telecom and online fraud; loan fraud; false invoicing; tax evasion; illegal business operations; drug trafficking and transportation; intentional homicide; personal injury, and more than 100 other charges.

In order to achieve the professionalization of lawyers' practice, the refinement of legal services, and the maximization of clients' interests, Lawyer Leng Dewu has always insisted on only handling criminal cases, focusing all his energy on the field of professional criminal cases, striving to provide clients with specialized and high-quality legal services with the greatest effort, provide clients with the best defense solutions, and achieve the best defense results. Collective wisdom is powerful. In order to broaden ideas and ensure the quality of case handling, Lawyer Leng has set up multiple professional criminal case research groups within his team and gathered a group of lawyers with professional expertise in various fields. Behind every case they undertake, there are at least three lawyers who jointly discuss the case situation and study countermeasures. Practice has proved that this method is correct, and the quality of the cases they have handled has received high praise from clients.

"To establish a career, one must first cultivate integrity. With integrity in one's heart, one's career will surely thrive!" For criminal suspects, especially those involved in criminal cases involving personal freedom and the right to life, it is the most urgent demand for them and their families to seek professional criminal lawyers to provide them with professional legal assistance. At this time, it is extremely important to encounter a responsible lawyer who is skilled in his work and can truly devote himself to every case he undertakes. When facing the legal dilemma of clients, he should do his best to solve their problems and maximally safeguard their legitimate rights and interests. As clients, they place all their hopes on the lawyers they entrust and hire. At this time, lawyers, as trustees, should be aware of the responsibilities and obligations they shoulder. In this regard, the results of lawyers' work, on the one hand, directly affect the individual fate of clients and the happiness of their entire families; on the other hand, they are related to the overall evaluation and impression of lawyers by society, as well as the progress of the country's rule of law.

Therefore, as a lawyer with a conscience and a sense of social responsibility, it is crucial to establish a correct professional outlook and values for lawyers. Attorney Leng Dewu has always remembered to take self-cultivation and self-improvement as the foundation and soul of his legal practice. Only a lawyer with a good personality and excellent qualities can truly live up to the sacred title of "lawyer" and make a significant contribution to the development of the legal profession.

Specialties: Occupational crime cases, economic crime cases, financial crime cases, corruption and bribery crime cases, drug crime cases, smuggling crime cases, public security cases, criminal appeals, complaints, death penalty review cases, and major and difficult criminal cases.

Some successful cases:

1. Successfully defended a case of fund-raising fraud.

In 2005, a financial group company was suspected of illegally accepting public deposits and was investigated for criminal charges. Jiao *xia and Yang *xiao respectively served as the chairman and general manager of the group company. After the investigation was completed, the procuratorate indicted Jiao, Yang, and others for fund-raising fraud, determining the amount of fund-raising fraud to be 2.2 billion yuan. After the trial, the first-instance court ruled that Jiao *xia and Yang *xiao were guilty of fund-raising fraud and sentenced the two defendants to death. The second-instance court upheld the first-instance verdict. Subsequently, the case was remanded for retrial by the Supreme People's Court. Lawyer Leng *wu, acting as the defense attorney for Yang *xiao, conducted thorough and effective defense work. Ultimately, the court adopted the defense attorney's opinion and changed the sentence to life imprisonment for the two defendants.

II. Successfully defended Cui **'s bribery case.

Cui ** is the actual operator of a real estate development company. From 2002 to 2014, during the development of real estate projects, Cui ** obtained land use rights by giving cash and a villa to Jin **, who was then the director of the Provincial Agricultural Reclamation Administration and the secretary of the local Party committee, for the development of the project. After Cui ** appeared in court, he entrusted lawyer Leng Dewu to act as his defense attorney. After carefully analyzing the case, lawyer Leng Dewu believed that this case should be classified as bribery by a unit, and that he himself had not obtained any improper benefits. Moreover, there were circumstances of passive bribe-seeking in this case. In the end, the court adopted the lawyer's defense opinion. The defendant was sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of three years and probation for three years for the crime of bribery by a unit.

III. Successfully defended Zhang *bin's case of embezzlement of public funds.

From 2014 to 2016, Zhang *bin cooperated with Wang *, a grain salesman, in the business of selling cordyceps. During the settlement of sales, a dispute arose between the two. Later, Wang * reported the case to the public security organ, alleging that Zhang *bin embezzled the sales proceeds of the grain sales company he operated. The * Public Security Bureau of Shenyang City detained Zhang *bin on suspicion of embezzlement. After meeting with Zhang *bin to understand the relevant case facts, attorney Leng *dewu concluded that this was a typical case of using criminal justice power to interfere with civil disputes. Attorney Leng *dewu submitted legal opinions to the procuratorate and communicated with the handling procurator in a timely manner. He pointed out that Zhang *bin was not a shareholder or employee of the company operated by Wang *, and therefore did not meet the subject qualifications for the crime of embezzlement. Moreover, Zhang *bin's interception of grain sales proceeds was due to Wang *'s default on his sales commissions and grain advance payments, and there was no so-called fact of illegal possession. After investigation, the procuratorate decided not to approve the arrest, and the case was ultimately withdrawn due to insufficient evidence.

IV. A successful defense case of Hu *liang, the finance director of a certain city, who was suspected of abusing his power.

During the investigation of the suspected duty-related crimes committed by the leading officials of a certain city under their jurisdiction, the disciplinary inspection and supervision department of a certain province took criminal compulsory measures against Hu Mouliang, the city's finance director, for his abuse of power in the process of approving the disbursement of environmental protection subsidies. Lawyer Leng Dewu was entrusted to act as Hu Mouliang's defense attorney. After understanding the entire case, the defense attorney submitted defense opinions to the procuratorate and communicated with the prosecutor on multiple occasions, arguing that Hu Mouliang did not actively purchase dust removal equipment for the city's thermal power company to facilitate its approval. The process of this case was that the then-leading official Gao Mou completed a series of preliminary acts involving illegal approval of the project, and finally the city's finance bureau allocated the funds. The city's finance bureau was just the final executor, so its involvement in the case was passive. Therefore, as the then-finance director, Hu Mouliang's subjective intent in this case was not to actively abuse his power, but at most to have a duty-related supervision negligence. Considering that Hu Mouliang's role in this case was not prominent, and taking into account his physical condition, the procuratorial organ finally decided to issue a non-prosecution decision against him.

5. Successfully defended He ** in the case of his suspected fraud.

In 2017, He ** was appointed as the sales manager of a branch company in a certain city in China by a technology company in Beijing. He was responsible for the sales of the "** Image System" in a certain region in China. By August 2019, He ** had sold more than 20 sets of the "** Image System". Later, the main responsible person of the company was suspected of committing a crime by the public security organ and was criminally detained, and He ** was also criminally detained.

After accepting the entrustment from He **'s family, Leng Dewu, after understanding the relevant case facts and reviewing all the case file materials, put forward the following defense opinions. The "** Image System" developed by the involved company has no essential differences in its original features and functions from the online loan system of ordinary commercial banks. The difference is that the developers of the system added and improved some specific functions for some online loan companies or micro-loan companies with the aim of profiting from charging high interest or handling fees to borrowers. However, as early as before the system was improved, He ** was already selling the system for the company. It was only after the company improved and added functions to the system that He ** failed to realize the potential sales risks of the improved system and continued to sell it normally. Later, after the system was purchased by criminals and used as a tool for crime, He ** was not directly presumed to have committed a crime. After communicating with the prosecutors several times, the procuratorate finally accepted the defense lawyer's opinions and made a decision not to prosecute He **.

VI. A successful defense case of Jiang *xin, who was suspected of smuggling precious animal products.

The public security organ of a certain city seized a case of smuggling antelope horns through overseas channels. The public security organ found that the suspect, Jiang *xin, was the final recipient of the smuggling chain, so it took criminal coercive measures against him. The procuratorate eventually indicted him for smuggling precious animal products. After accepting the case, lawyer Leng *wu reviewed all the case materials and found that the public security organ had no other evidence to prove Jiang *xin's involvement in smuggling antelope horns except the confessions of other suspects and a photo of the antelope horns in Jiang *xin's phone. During the court defense phase, the defense attorney argued that the smuggled items in this case were precious animal products, and the key evidence must include the actual antelope horns involved in the smuggling. However, there were no actual antelope horns in this case, only photos. Photos cannot be used as identification materials to replace the original items, so the appraisal report lacked legality, and the evidence in this case was insufficient. The second-instance court adopted the defense attorney's defense opinion and remanded the case for retrial.

7.Seven, a successful defense case in which Gao *hao's intentional homicide was changed from the death penalty to a lighter sentence.

In 2017, the defendant, Gao *hao, had a dispute with others for some reason. He used a fruit knife to stab one victim to death and seriously injured another. The first-instance court sentenced the defendant to death. After accepting the entrustment, lawyer Leng Dewu carefully reviewed the on-site surveillance video and found that the defendant was attacked first by the other party. This case had a clear cause and effect. When the defendant found that his friend was being beaten up, he went to break up the fight, but was attacked by the other party. The knife carried by the defendant was not brought into the car for the conflict, and there was no circumstance of preparing a weapon in advance for the purpose of committing a crime. In the end, the second-instance court changed the death sentence to a suspended death sentence.

Eight, Song ** successfully defended himself in the case of aiding and abetting.

Song applied for a job online, helping an overseas company find domestic merchants and providing them with the merchants' WeChat accounts and contact information. However, the recommended merchants in China were subsequently defrauded by the overseas company of varying amounts of money. Later, the public security organ detained Song on suspicion of aiding information network crime activities. When the case reached the procuratorate stage, Attorney Leng Dewu submitted a defense opinion to the procuratorate arguing that the case did not constitute the crime of aiding information network crime activities. His main argument was: Although Song and others recommended the domestic merchants' WeChat accounts and other contact information to the overseas criminal group, Song did not know the true motives and purposes of the "overseas clients" in obtaining this information. That is to say, Song did not know whether the "overseas clients" obtained the domestic merchants' WeChat accounts for normal commercial activities or to commit illegal crimes. Therefore, Song did not have the subjective intent to assist others in committing telecom and online fraud. After further investigation, the procuratorate and the defense attorney reached an agreement to prosecute the case for the crime of infringing citizens' personal information and recommended a suspended sentence. Ultimately, the court sentenced Song to fixed-term imprisonment of three years and a suspended sentence of four years.