The luxury car dream of the post-90s accountant
Correspondent Gao Huijun Wu Yanhua
"In order to satisfy my vanity, I began to misappropriate the funds of the villager group, and the evil results I planted with my own hands can only be swallowed by myself." In court, Zhao Yu, an accountant of the post-90s unit in Yongping Village, Xinba Town, Yangzhong City, Jiangsu Province burst into tears. Remorse.
Why do young village cadres embark on the road of breaking the law and committing crimes?
In August 2020, the second inspection team of the Yangzhong Municipal Party Committee discovered during an inspection of Xinba Town that the eighth villager team of Yongping Village had inconsistent accounts.
After receiving clues to the problem, the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection set up an investigation team to investigate.
After retrieving the bank information, financial account books and other materials of the abnormal account, the investigators discovered that the account had abnormal operations such as transferring collective funds to private accounts.
In order to understand the situation, the investigators directly found Zhao Yu, the accountant of the eight groups, to talk.
"Why are the funds of the eight groups frequently transferred to your bank account?" the investigator asked.
"The money is for cash withdrawal and is going to be allocated to the villagers." Facing the conversation of the investigation team, Zhao Yu answered very simply.
"Why don't you withdraw cash through the basic account, and have to transfer it to your card for cash withdrawal?" "Since you want to withdraw, why is the money quickly consumed after it reaches your card?" In the face of Zhao Yu's sophistry, the investigator Throw a series of questions.
"I...I have cash at home and can use it to distribute it at any time. What I spend is my own money. I have already paid the money back..." Zhao Yu began to lose his position when asked by the investigation team.
"Cash distribution is not in compliance with financial regulations, and it is impossible for you to store hundreds of thousands of cash at home?" the investigator asked.
Faced with sharp questions from the investigation team, Zhao Yu's words became less and less emboldened.
"Where have you used these hundreds of thousands of funds?" the investigator asked immediately.
"Most of this money was used by me for renting a car." Under the interlocking questioning and careful and patient ideological work of the investigators, Zhao Yu truthfully explained the illegal and criminal facts of embezzling the villager group funds for personal consumption.
It turned out that in the second half of 2018, Zhao Yu was influenced by his surrounding friends and became obsessed with high-end cars. After inadvertently contacting a car rental app, he successively rented cars of Infiniti, Audi, BMW and other brands through the platform.
Because of the high rents of these luxury cars, Zhao Yu, who was not paid enough, started the idea of funding the village group.
According to the investigation, the financial management of Yongping Village was chaotic at that time. In order to facilitate the distribution of compensation, the financial seal was always kept by Zhao Yu, and Zhao Yu was responsible for all group fund expenditures. The village accountant rarely supervised the use of group funds. .
On one side is the dream of driving a luxury car, on the other side is unsupervised group-level funds, Zhao Yu gradually loses himself in vanity.
In the end, Zhao Yu misappropriated a total of 720,000 yuan for personal consumption, of which more than 400,000 yuan was used for car rental.
After the round of inspections began, Zhao Yu's parents voluntarily returned the embezzled funds for their son in order to prevent the Dongchuang incident.
"It's really regrettable to see my parents fill in the holes with the frugal pension money." Zhao Yu wrote in his book of regrets.
In July 2021, Zhao Yu was sentenced to six months' imprisonment with one year's probation for misappropriating funds.
In response to the non-standard financial management of Yongping Village and the ineffective supervision, the Yangzhong Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection conducted a serious accountability of the relevant responsible persons.
At the same time, the city’s Commission for Discipline Inspection started by strengthening anti-corruption warning education, conducting warm-hearted return visits, and plugging loopholes in the system, strengthening the education, supervision and management of young cadres, and creating convenient conditions for their healthy growth.