Reporter Observation丨Cleaning up the "silverworms" in the granary
Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and State Supervision Commission website Huang Qiuxia
Chen Weiguo, the former principal and inspector of Mingguang Osmanthus Storage Depot in Mingguang City, Anhui Province, was sentenced to 3 years in prison and fined 280,000 yuan for fraudulently issuing settlement documents, inflating weight, and fictitious transactions. Meng Xiangjiu, the former party secretary and chairman of the company, used power for personal gains in business operations and job adjustments. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison for bribery, embezzlement of public funds, corruption, etc., and was fined 3.7 million yuan... A case of corruption in the food system has aroused social concern.
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The grain system undertakes the important tasks of the country's grain purchase, storage, and management. Party members and cadres' violations of discipline and law have seriously eroded the interests of the people, caused national losses, and affected food security.
Effectively identifying the corrupt methods of the "silver" in the granary, and then strengthening the supervision and plugging loopholes in a targeted manner, is of great significance to ensuring food security.
Judging from the investigated cases, false reporting of food quantities is one of the main methods of corruption.
According to Zhou Jianhua, director of the Fifth Inspection and Investigation Office of the Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision of Yizheng City, Jiangsu Province, 14 of the city’s 15 grassroots grain stations were investigated for violations of discipline and law, and 5 of them were transferred for review and prosecution.
When many local grain stations were buying grain, the staff deliberately deducted the moisture and impurities of the grain, and even lowered the book number by operating the scales, so that the over-collected grain could be sold for money in disguise.
For example, Gao Shilin, the former head of the Chenjiliang Station, embezzled a total of 1,122,200 yuan for 14 times in this way.
Similarly, the court found that Chen Weiguo used his position to fraudulently obtain more than RMB 1.314 million of national grain purchase funds from August 2014 to December 2017 through falsely issuing settlement vouchers and falsely increasing the weight of grain. Among them, Chen Wei Guo received more than 474,000 yuan.
"Another common method of corruption is to use the difference between the old and new grains to make a fuss." Liu Jun, a cadre of the Seventh Inspection and Investigation Office of the Yizheng Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, said that in accordance with relevant regulations, grain stations should periodically rotate their grain reserves, that is, sell old grains. , Purchasing new grain, the market price of the old grain is low, and the market price of the new grain is high. Some party members and cadres with ulterior motives “sell” the old grain at a low price, and then sort it, remove impurities, load and unload, and weigh it as new grain. "Buy it back" at high prices and "turn around" in situ to defraud financial subsidy income.
From 2016 to 2019, a total of 12 grain stations in the city participated in the "circle" more than 20 times.
Tao Yonghong, the former general manager of Sichuan Qingshen County National Grain Management Co., Ltd., was sentenced to 4 years and 6 months in prison in 2020.
According to investigations, during the rotation of a batch of 3,100 tons of grain reserves in 2018, Tao Yonghong and Guo Xiuqun, the former chief of the financial department, defrauded nearly 230,000 yuan of state funds by "turning the circle" to replace the old with the new.
As early as 2016, Tao Yonghong and others purchased old grain from grain merchants and put them into storage, using 896 tons of “turning grain” from the old to the new to make a difference of 200,000 yuan.
According to reports, the grain purchased by the grain station is generally divided into three levels, corresponding to the declining purchase price, some staff members use the method of falsely reporting the quality of the grain for personal gain.
After investigation, some grain stations illegally occupy the intermediate price difference by forging the purchase certificate and falsely reporting the grain grade. For example, Gao Shilin once used the third-class grain to settle with the farmers and the second-class grain with the head office, and the difference was more than 100,000. yuan.
Why can seemingly simple and straightforward corruption be able to succeed again and again?
According to expert analysis, the main reason is the chaotic internal management of some grain stations, especially the greater autonomy in grain procurement, storage, and sales.
For example, weighing the quantity of grain, distinguishing old and new grains, and identifying grain grades are mainly manual operations. In fact, the "top leader" has the final say, while the supervision and management of the quantity and quality of grain reserves, personnel and finance by the higher-level departments is a mere formality. .
"After investigating and dealing with many cases of'collapse method corruption' in the grain system at the grassroots level, we believe that the top priority to control the chaos in the grain system is to regulate the operation and management activities of the grain station at the grassroots level, and focus on urging the Municipal Grain Bureau and other departments to strengthen the prevention and control of corruption risks and improve the system. "Zhou Jianhua said.
System construction is an important starting point.
The Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Team of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Development and Reform Commission promoted the National Grain Storage Bureau to issue the "Grain Circulation Management Regulations" to improve the system and standards; urge it to deepen the reform of the supervision and law enforcement system, and carry out cross-regional cross-regional law enforcement inspections, special inspections and surprise random inspections , Adhere to strict supervision and punish food-related cases in accordance with the law.
The Commission for Discipline Inspection of Ji'an City, Jilin Province closely followed the integrity risk points of each link of grain procurement and storage, and “interactions and groups linkage” carried out 3 special inspections and centralized investigations.
Up to now, more than 40 special reminders have been issued and 12 people have been organized to talk about clean governance.
The Commission for Discipline Inspection of Yuhang District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, urged the District Bureau of Commerce to establish a whole-process supervision chain of grain inspection, weighing, transmission, warehousing, and storage, and strictly control grain storage and loss reduction.
At the same time, a supervisory commissioner was dispatched to follow up and supervise, through on-site verification, checking the ledger, etc., to check the pass, focusing on supervising key points such as man-made influence on testing data and fixed-point purchase of technical equipment.
Learning the lessons of the case, the Yizheng Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection continued to dig into and thoroughly investigate the corruption of the grain system while carrying out special supervision and inspections, focusing on investigating the risk points and outstanding issues involving human, financial, and material management, and urged the local grain system to make further progress. Improve the rules and regulations, especially the establishment and improvement of grain purchase and sales management regulations, grain storage and storage regulations, and financial management systems, and strictly implement the "two-line" management method of financial revenue and expenditure, and promote the implementation of unit leaders, financial personnel, business personnel, and custodians. Mutual supervision between various links.