27 people were sentenced and involved 16 cities in 9 provinces! Uncover the chain of interests behind the case of leakage of national examination questions
In May 2021, before the opening of the national second-level construction engineer qualification examination, relevant test questions were leaked, and were disseminated and sold on the Internet.
The contents of the test papers have been changed hands several times, and they have been subcontracted and sold layer by layer. One candidate in Suqian even bought the test questions and answers for 200 yuan.
In November 2022, the case of cheating in the examination organized by the People's Procuratorate of Sucheng District, Suqian City, Jiangsu Province was prosecuted and sentenced, and 27 defendants were sentenced.
The procuratorate exposed many details of the crime, and also revealed the entire chain of interests behind the case.
The cheating case spread to 16 cities in 9 provinces, and 27 people were sentenced in the first instance
Zhou is one of the defendants in this case. The school he works for is exactly one of the test centers set up in Xi'an for the National Second-Class Construction Engineer Qualification Examination at the end of May 2021.
Jin Xueyuan, assistant prosecutor of the People's Procuratorate of Sucheng District, Suqian City, Jiangsu Province
: The defendant Zhou was originally an officer of the Vocational Ability Education Center of a university in Xi'an. There is a test center in the school, and Zhou is responsible for connecting with the test department of the corresponding test.
As the person in charge of the test center, Zhou, his work includes receiving and keeping test questions, organizing teachers to invigilate the test, maintaining order in the test room, and so on.
Jin Xueyuan, assistant prosecutor of the People's Procuratorate of Sucheng District, Suqian City, Jiangsu Province:
As early as March of the same year, Dang frequently invited Zhou to dinner through friends. The high salary tempted Zhou.
With a bid of 450,000 yuan, a person in charge of a college test center was bought
Dang, one of the defendants, heard that Zhou had access to the test papers, so he began to court Zhou.
The two finally agreed that Zhou was responsible for stealing the test papers, and then sold them to Dang for 450,000 yuan.
Dang also provided Zhou with tools such as mobile phones, plastic sealing machines and plastic sealing bags needed to steal test papers.
Jin Xueyuan, assistant prosecutor of the People's Procuratorate of Sucheng District, Suqian City, Jiangsu Province:
May 28, 2021 is the day before the national second-level construction engineer qualification examination. Zhou was responsible for receiving and guarding the test questions. Zhou arranged for personnel to move the test papers to the secret room, but failed to turn on the monitoring of the secret room in accordance with the regulations. Later, during the lunch break, he entered the secret room alone, stole the test papers and put them in advance preparation black cloth bag.
Zhou returned to the dormitory with the test paper in his hand. He first tore off the plastic film of the test paper, took pictures of the test questions with the mobile phone provided by the party, and then used the plastic sealing machine and other criminal tools to restore the test paper to its original state.
After he put the test paper back in the secret room, he turned on the video camera again in an attempt to cover up his crime.
Jin Xueyuan, assistant prosecutor of the People's Procuratorate of Sucheng District, Suqian City, Jiangsu Province
: After that, Zhou drove his private car to a parking lot near the school, handed over the mobile phone with the test questions to the party, and obtained a 450,000 yuan phone from the party. Cash in the black backpack and leave.
The chain of interests of cheating in exams has been uncovered
In this way, the defendant party got the test questions.
Before getting the test questions, in fact, he had already contacted a buyer from Hubei, that is, Fang, one of the defendants.
So far, this chain of interests of cheating in exams has surfaced one after another.
Jin Xueyuan, assistant prosecutor of the People's Procuratorate of Sucheng District, Suqian City, Jiangsu Province: Before the incident, Fang was preparing for a construction company, and there was still a shortage of second-level construction engineers. Construction engineer professional qualification certificate, free affiliation for construction companies.
Offer a million! How Exam Questions and Answers Change Hands
According to the accusation of the procuratorial organ, as early as March 2021, Fang and the party agreed to purchase the national second-level construction engineer qualification examination papers for that year at a price of 1 million yuan, and Fang paid 600,000 yuan in advance to the party. Dang will pay the remaining balance after the matter is completed.
Jin Xueyuan, assistant prosecutor of the People's Procuratorate of Sucheng District, Suqian City, Jiangsu Province:
After that, Fang began to contact friends in education and training institutions to develop examinee resources, hired three gunmen at a price of 10,000 yuan per person, and arranged for an accomplice Zhang to prepare printers and Computers and other cheating tools, and open hotel rooms as a base for cheating.
At around 3 pm on May 28, 2021, Fang received the test paper questions from Dang by email, and then acted quickly.
Prosecutor Assistant Jin Xueyuan of the People’s Procuratorate of Sucheng District, Suqian City, Jiangsu Province:
Immediately organize the gunmen waiting in the hotel room to answer the questions, and after the answers are made, the answers to the questions will be edited into a specific form by a special person, and sent to another room of the hotel for Fang Candidates organized by X and Zhang recited the test and arranged special personnel to watch over it to prevent the answers to the test questions from leaking out.
Organize candidates to memorize the answers, and assign special personnel to supervise the answers to prevent leaks
The video in a public place shows the scene in the lobby of a hotel in Huanggang, Hubei. The people who come in one after another from the door are the candidates who Fang and others arranged to come to the hotel room to memorize the answers.
Prosecutors said Fang Mou and others organized 16 candidates to cheat in the exam.
In order to prevent the leakage of the test questions and answers, they also arranged special personnel to supervise the candidates, and the cheating activities were strictly organized.
So how did these issues spread?
Jin Xueyuan, Prosecutor Assistant of the People's Procuratorate of Sucheng District, Suqian City, Jiangsu Province:
According to Fang's confession, he not only wants his relatives and friends to obtain a second-level construction engineer qualification certificate for him to be affiliated with, but also wants to sell answers to test questions, reduce costs, and obtain illegal benefits Therefore, Fang also sold the answers to the test questions to offline Xie and others through online chat software, and charged him 160,000 yuan before the exam.
The answers to the exam questions are sold to downlines, spreading to 8 levels within a few hours
In the early morning of May 29, 2021, after a group of Fang sold the exam questions and answers offline, the answers to the national second-level construction engineer qualification exam began to be sold and disseminated rapidly through the Internet, and spread within a few hours. 8 levels.
Jin Xueyuan, Assistant Prosecutor of the People's Procuratorate of Sucheng District, Suqian City, Jiangsu Province:
Some of the defendants who bought and sold the answers to the test questions were engaged in the education and training industry, and sold the answers to the test candidates to obtain illegal benefits, and some were the responsible persons of the construction enterprises, who sold the answers to the test questions for free. Provide it to your employees, relatives and friends to obtain more staffing for the professional qualification of second-level construction engineers. Some of them are candidates themselves, and sell the answers to share the cost and obtain benefits.
Due to the rapid spread of the answers to the test questions, the price for candidates to obtain the answers has also dropped from tens of thousands of yuan at the beginning to as low as two hundred yuan at the end.
The police found that the test questions were distributed and trafficked online
At the end of May 2021, the national second-level construction engineer qualification examination began. During the online inspection of the Internet Security Detachment of the public security organ, it was discovered that relevant test questions were leaked before the examination, and were disseminated and sold online.
After careful investigation, the criminal chain of this huge exam cheating case gradually emerged.
The public security organ transferred the case to the People's Procuratorate of Sucheng District, Suqian City for review and prosecution. The procuratorial organ charged 27 people including Zhou, Dang, and Fang with the crime of illegally obtaining state secrets, illegally selling and providing test questions and answers, and organizing cheating in exams. public prosecution.
On November 30, 2022, the People's Court of Sucheng District, Suqian City, Jiangsu Province made a judgment on the case.
Jin Xueyuan, assistant prosecutor of the People's Procuratorate of Sucheng District, Suqian City, Jiangsu Province
: The defendant Zhou committed the crime of illegally obtaining state secrets and illegally selling test questions.
The defendant Party committed the crime of illegally obtaining state secrets and illegally selling test questions and answers. He was sentenced to six years in prison and a fine of RMB 310,000.
The defendant Fang committed the crime of illegally obtaining state secrets, organizing cheating in exams, illegally selling and providing test questions and answers, and was punished for several crimes according to law. He was sentenced to four years and six months in prison and a fine of RMB 240,000.
Zhang and the other 24 defendants were sentenced to two years and two months to six months in prison and fined between 100,000 and 6,000 yuan.
At the same time, the court recovered and confiscated the illegal gains and criminal tools involved in the case, and decided to issue a professional prohibition or prohibition order to Zhou and others according to the crime situation.
Jin Xueyuan, assistant prosecutor of the People's Procuratorate of Sucheng District, Suqian City, Jiangsu Province:
According to the provisions of the National Education Exam Violation Handling Measures, candidates who take the exam by cheating will be invalid for all stages and subjects of the exam they signed up for, and will be included in the national education exam. Exam Integrity Profile.
The prosecutor here reminds that the national examination is an important way for the country to select talents. It is related to the vital interests of candidates and social fairness and justice. Acts such as substituting exams shall bear criminal responsibility.
Jin Xueyuan, Assistant Prosecutor of the People's Procuratorate of Sucheng District, Suqian City, Jiangsu Province:
Organizers who try to gain illegal benefits from cheating in the exam should not take chances and try their own methods to disrupt the order of the national exam, otherwise they will be punished in exchange for punishment.
At the same time, candidates are reminded to take the case as a warning, abide by the bottom line of the law, take the test with integrity, and behave in a down-to-earth manner, so as to jointly create a clean and upright test atmosphere.
(CCTV news client)