Borrowing the name and power of playing cards to trading table becomes a channel of profit transmission
Win but not lose
A few days ago, the Commission for Discipline Inspection of Hunan Province notified Tan Benzhong, the former deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Changde Municipal People’s Congress of Hunan Province and the former secretary of the Shimen County Party Committee, of the "double opening". It specifically mentioned that Tan Benzhong violated integrity and discipline and used cards to make money.
It is understood that Tan Benzhong has met with private entrepreneurs for a long time in the name of playing cards, but he actually took the opportunity to make money.
These private business owners used mahjong as one of the means to hunt Tan Benzhong, deliberately releasing water to become his subordinates, sending a lot of money through "losing" in exchange for the "convenience" of engineering project contracting and project development.
The day after Tan Benzhong’s announcement was released, China Judgment Documents.com published "Xu Huiliang's Criminal Judgment on Acceptance of Bribes, Abuse of Power, and Corruption".
The judgment mentioned that Xu Huiliang, while serving as Secretary of the Xiangyun County Party Committee of Yunnan Province and Secretary and Director of the Dali Prefecture Tourism Development Committee, repeatedly invited businessmen to gambling with playing cards in the form of "three against one", and received bribes totaling RMB 6.41 million.
Relevant witnesses stated that in order to be taken care of, they would deliberately lose money to Xu Huiliang in the process of playing cards. They also said privately that Xu Huiliang “can only take tonics, not laxatives” when playing cards, that is, he can only win but not lose.
In the end, the court sentenced Xu Huiliang to 14 years in prison for bribery, abuse of power, and corruption, and fined 3.1 million yuan.
The reporter learned during the interview that, in order to conceal people's attention, many gambling games are conducted in relatively hidden places such as the homes of leading cadres or businessmen, or clubs provided by businessmen.
When a small card table becomes a channel of profit transmission, in order to get the "prey" hooked, it can be said that the hunters take great pains.
Feng Jun, the former party secretary and director of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Mianzhu City, Sichuan Province, steals, exchanges, and looks at cards during the process of playing mahjong. The boss with whom he plays mahjong also closes one eye.
Some businessmen play mahjong with Feng Jun, and put the "deposit money" in an envelope and stuff them separately to Feng Jun, each time 10,000 yuan or 20,000 yuan in cash.
"The boss asked me to play cards, he wouldn't play with me, and he deliberately told me what cards he was going to play against, so I wouldn't lose, and every game was a winner." Feng Jun told himself the secret of playing mahjong "only win but not lose" Straightforward.
According to investigations, from 2007 to 2018, Feng Jun used the convenience of his position to seek benefits for others, and received 3.96 million yuan in cash in the form of gambling and 580,000 yuan in cash in the name of "store the bottom".
At present, Feng Jun has been expelled from the party, expelled from public office, and has been prosecuted by the procuratorate for alleged bribery.
The reporter combed and found that it was not only the bosses who saw the opportunity to "find a breakthrough" from the hobbies of leading cadres, but also the subordinates, relatives and friends of leading cadres.
The money won by leading cadres not only comes from the pockets of the businessman, but some even comes from the treasury.
Lu Xingguo, the former director of the Fangxian Land and Resources Bureau of Hubei Province, was in office for 8 years. He made illegal profits of 550,000 yuan only by playing the "business card" with his subordinates and bosses.
Zhu Xinyi, the former party secretary and director of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Civil Defense Office, was obsessed with playing cards, and his subordinates prepared Zhu Xinyi to "base" cash every time by withdrawing public funds. Zhu Xinyi won more money at the mahjong table.
"I also deceived myself, knowing that this is illegal, but I just deceived myself to be entertaining and relaxing." Zeng Fanxin, the former inspector of the Beijing South-to-North Water Transfer Project Construction Committee Office, told the truth about some party members and leading cadres who were hunted. idea.
He rigorously reminded the cadres and workers to refuse gambling on the stage, but he was addicted to gambling and used the opportunity to make money off the stage.
Gambling is a behavior expressly prohibited by national laws, and party members and cadres are strictly prohibited from participating in gambling.
Uncovering the fig leaf of "being fun" and "small gambling", behind the "only win, not lose" gambling game is the naked power and money transaction and the transfer of benefits.
In fact, both the winners and the losers know this well.
In July 2019, Pu Bo, a former member of the Party Leadership Group and Vice Governor of the Guizhou Provincial Government, was sentenced to life imprisonment for taking bribes.
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission pointed out that Pu Bo "gathered huge sums of money by gambling, and engaged in power and money trading through'big gambling' and'fake gambling'."
"Party members and cadres and public officials use gambling to accumulate money, and they cannot simply be qualitatively dealt with in regular gambling cases." Hao Dengjian, deputy director of the case trial office of the Jiangbei District Commission for Discipline Inspection of Chongqing City, said, according to the Party Disciplinary Regulations and Government Affairs In the sanctions law, state functionaries who are party members use the convenience of their positions to seek benefits for the trustee and receive the trustee’s property through gambling. Their behavior is suspected of crimes of bribery, and they should be subject to party discipline and government sanctions before being transferred to the judicial organs for handling.
Where gambling is used to collect the property of management and service objects, if the circumstances are minor and do not constitute a crime, or if there is no request, the relevant party discipline and government sanctions shall be given according to the circumstances.
The benefit transmission chain formed by gambling not only damages the clean and refreshing relationship with colleagues, destroys the "pro" and "clean" political and business relations, but also seriously harms the political ecology of relevant places and units.
In response to the problem of some party members and cadres participating in gambling, gambling and making money through gambling, special rectifications have been carried out in many places and departments to strictly enforce disciplines and rules, and to purify the style of the party and government.
The Sichuan Provincial Party Committee held a Pu Bo warning education meeting on serious violations of discipline and laws. The Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection deployed a special rectification of the problem of “gambling for money” among party members and public officials throughout the province, and urged the rectification of 1,440 party members’ gambling problems.
Discipline inspection and supervisory officials interviewed in Hunan, Chongqing and other places stated that they must insist on investigating bribery and bribery together to deter hunters who corrupt cadres and seek illegal gains, cut the corruption chain of benefit transmission, and break the network of power and money transactions. .
(Our reporter Yu Lu)