Illegal eating and drinking lead to coalitions of interest, and field exploration takes the opportunity to borrow money to make money
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The main person in charge of the party and government at that time and 5 members of the team were held accountable, and 45 systems were revised for official reception, field vehicles, and the use of field funds, and specifically addressed the problems of illegal eating and drinking, selection and employment... A few days ago, the China Geological Survey The Bureau's Oil and Gas Resources Investigation Center (hereinafter referred to as the "Oil and Gas Center") is proceeding in an orderly manner with a systematic rectification aimed at using field exploration powers for profit.
Looking for oil and gas is a matter of national energy security.
As a company regarded as an "industry benchmark", why does the oil and gas center have a series of violations of discipline and law?
More than a quarter of the employees violated the spirit of the eight central regulations. How can style issues breed corruption?
What are the integrity risks in the field exploration authority, and how to plug the loopholes in the system?
The "small grenade" led to the retention case, and the hand of corruption reached out to various links such as field vehicles, labor employment, equipment leasing, etc.
In the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, a white porcelain bottle of half a catty, commonly known as "small grenade" Laojiao wine is quite famous.
In May 2019, the Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Team of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in the Ministry of Natural Resources received a letter of reporting on illegal eating and drinking in the oil and gas center. After in-depth investigation, the corruption chain behind the "small grenade" mentioned in the report was dug out.
It starts with the first geophysical exploration team ("physical exploration team") established by the Oil and Gas Center in 2015.
According to reports, this team is headed by Mei Yanhui, the former director of the Oil and Gas Center, and Ma Yong, the backbone of the exploration technology, is the leader of the field team, responsible for multiple field geological survey projects in the Yili area, Barkol Basin, and Junggar Basin in Xinjiang.
"Field geophysical prospecting work sites have many lines and a wide geographical range. The work team often needs to rent multiple off-road vehicles to run for several months, and the expenditure is relatively high." said Yao Zhilu, director of the sixth office of the discipline inspection and supervision team.
As a result, Mei Yanhui and Ma Yongsheng saw room for profit.
From 2014 to 2019, Ma Yong Shengli used his position to help Chen Mou, the person in charge of an automotive supplies company in Korla, and others to undertake the business of vehicle leasing and logistics management of the geophysical team.
During the work period of the geophysical team, the daily rent for each vehicle reached more than 1,000 yuan, which was higher than the market price in the same period.
"The'small grenade' of the Oil and Gas Center was provided by Chen." Zou Xiaodong, deputy director of the Sixth Division of the Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Group, told reporters that in the process of interacting with Chen, Ma Yongsheng not only invited the leaders to eat, buy air tickets, and pay back Credit cards and other names asked for more than 700,000 yuan of money and goods, and also asked for an off-road vehicle to be rented on the project, "borrowing chickens and eggs" to earn rent.
Similarly, after helping a company to be shortlisted and bid for a field car service project, Mei Yanhui accepted a 200,000 yuan rebate from the company's legal person Li in the underground garage of the oil and gas center.
In addition to the field vehicles, the two are still making a fuss about land occupation compensation.
"The compensation standards for open land and agricultural land are different. Ma Yongsheng and others falsely reported or lied about the scope of agricultural land that needs to be requisitioned in order to obtain compensation for young crops. Mei Yanhui was tacitly aware of this. It was found that they had used this once. Make a profit of 50,000 yuan." Zou Xiaodong said.
According to reports, in field physical prospecting projects, there is a high demand for labor for site construction and equipment handling.
Due to the large differences in the employment of different projects, the workload is mainly reported based on the determination of the geophysical team. In the absence of supervision, the financial department will reimburse as much as the geophysical team reports.
Ma Yongsheng and others used methods such as falsely reporting the number of migrant workers hired and the number of working days in the field to obtain project funds.
More than a quarter of the current employees violated the spirit of the eight regulations of the central government, and the problem of style has become a breeding ground for corruption
With the passage of time, Mei Yanhui and Ma Yongsheng turned their eyes from the field to the inside of the oil and gas center.
In 2018, through Mei Yanhui's "bridge", Ma Yongsheng accepted the request of the general manager of a Beijing exploration company to include the company's "three-dimensional electromagnetic workstation instrument" in the oil and gas center's 2019 equipment procurement plan.
"The so-called procurement plan is actually tailored according to the company's equipment parameters. With Ma Yongsheng operating from it, winning the bid will naturally be a matter of course." Zou Xiaodong said.
In the information system procurement work of the oil and gas center, Mei Yanhui helped a technology company in Beijing to undertake a number of information projects such as additional storage for the oil and gas center network, park access switches, and mid-range network routers, and received a total of 440,000 yuan in cash.
"The'Four Winds' and corruption are both external and internal. In the'Mei and Ma case', the corruption of the two was accompanied by a serious violation of the eight regulations of the central government." Yao Zhilu told reporters that from 2015 to 2018, Mei Yanhui Yongsheng and Ma Yongsheng often take business opportunities to travel around the country. While the business owner pays the relevant expenses, they also reimburse the unit for illegal travel expenses, receive field allowances and other related subsidies, and receive a large number of tobacco and alcohol, consumption cards, and consumption cards that may affect the fair execution of official duties. Native products and so on.
"I must come to other people's wine bureaus at every appointment, but also save the game by myself. If there is no dinner for a day, the wine bureau feels empty." Mei Yanhui wrote in the confession.
Participating in the wine bureau is not only to satisfy vanity, but also to win relationships and win people's hearts.
Under Mei Yanhui's arrangement, Chen et al. successively sent nearly 100 boxes of "small grenade" to Beijing. With the tacit approval of the leaders of the Oil and Gas Center, these liquors became the unit's "designated wine for reception".
"At that time, the problem of eating and drinking within the unit was quite common." Yao Zhilu said, for example, some leaders had brought several offices and dozens of cadres to eat and drink.
As the investigation deepened, more and more questions surfaced.
According to investigations, among the more than 160 employees in the oil and gas center, more than 40 have problems such as illegally participating in eating and drinking and accepting local products.
Some have formed an "interest alliance" with Mei Yanhui and Ma Yongsheng, and some colluded with bidders to collect favorable fees in project bidding.
Absence of supervision, copying of the management system, laissez-faire cadre education and management, and the mentality of “just do it if nothing goes wrong” has led to the failure of a comprehensive and strict governance of the party level by level
As a company regarded as an "industry benchmark", why did such a serious corruption problem occur?
"The reasons for this situation are multiple." said Li Haiping, deputy head of the Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Group of the Ministry of Natural Resources.
At the supervisory level, the geophysical team's geological survey projects need to be carried out in the field, which can easily become a blind spot for supervision.
"In terms of the use of funds, material procurement, quality of original data, project construction quality, commissioned business setting and management, etc., it only relies on the on-site personnel's "one pen" one mouth", and some do not even have contract documents." Li Haiping said, "In addition,'finding oil and gas' itself has uncertainty, and it is difficult to quantify the effectiveness of work. This also opens the door to violations of discipline and law."
The implementation of bid evaluation and review is not strict, the project quality inspection and acceptance opinions are the same, the inspection and evaluation opinions on the commissioned business are perfunctory, and the funds are used at will... These problems occur from time to time in the oil and gas center.
The absence of supervision is not unrelated to the loopholes in the institutional mechanism.
The reporter learned that before the system rectification, the oil and gas center's field projects, commissioned projects, quality management, fund allocation and other systems were basically copied and copied, which did not conform to the actual characteristics of geological survey work, and the operability was poor. There are even blank areas in system construction.
Some party members and cadres in the oil and gas center only focus on business but not politics, lack ideals and beliefs, and have a weak sense of discipline and law.
Zou Xiaodong told reporters that Mei Yanhui and Ma Yongsheng continued to help others to undertake projects after receiving many talks from the organization and even before being detained.
"System construction and system implementation are formalism, and party members and cadres have poor political awareness and discipline. These two problems all point to a deep-seated cause-the oil and gas center has a comprehensive and strict governance of the party, the lack of responsibility for the main body, the absence of supervision responsibility, and the loose management of the party. Soft." Li Haiping said.
Although the Oil and Gas Center holds a comprehensive and strict party governance meeting every year, it often only stays on verbal and paper, without putting it into action.
“The party committee is focusing on party building with a mentality of'routine, explain to the party, don’t do anything wrong', to focus on party building, follow the rules in party member education, and let go of cadre management.” Li Haiping introduced, when the oil and gas center is conducting special internal audit inspections and inspections Perfunctorily, the party committee’s guidance on party building work in various offices, party branches, and project teams was a mere formality, which eventually led to the failure of a comprehensive and strict governance of the party level by level.
Regarding the case to clarify the discipline and the case to promote the reform, 32 people took the initiative to submit written explanations and carried out the formulation and revision of 45 systems
As the first lien case since the establishment of the China Geological Survey, the Mei and Ma case caused shock in the Geological Survey Bureau system.
The Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Team of the Ministry of Natural Resources has taken multiple measures to promote the anti-corruption, non-corruption, and anti-corruption efforts, and strive to investigate and deal with one case and manage one area.
After Mei Yanhui and Ma Yongsheng were detained, the Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Team of the Ministry of Natural Resources took the lead in convening a warning education conference at the Oil and Gas Center to deeply analyze the trajectory of Mei Yanhui and Ma Yongsheng's degeneration and the root cause of their transformation, and to provide warning education to the party members and cadres of the center.
After the meeting, 32 people took the initiative to submit written explanations.
In the end, among the 41 officials at the division level and below involved in the case, 39 were aided by the "first form" of criticism and education, and 2 were dealt with in the "second form".
"While handling cases in accordance with regulations, disciplines and laws, we have combined the actual field survey work to deepen the use of the'four forms' to punish the past and the back, treat the disease and save people, and achieve the unity of political effects, disciplinary effects, and social effects." Li Haiping introduced.
"Mei Yanhui's domineering style is well known in the oil and gas center, but the leaders of the center believe that he dares to take responsibility and has repeatedly entrusted them with important tasks." Yao Zhilu told reporters that Mei Yanhui and Ma Yongsheng were expelled from the party and public office, and the suspected duty crime was transferred to the procuratorial organ for review and prosecution. The Discipline Inspection and Supervision Team of the Ministry of Natural Resources initiated accountability, and the five members of the party and government leaders of the Oil and Gas Center were held accountable.
At the level of system construction, the disciplinary inspection and supervision team urged the Party Committee of the Oil and Gas Center to systematically sort out the power operation risks in key areas and key positions, formulate and issue work plans for system establishment, reform and abolition, clarify the timetable and responsible departments, and carry out official reception and field use in batches. The establishment and revision of 45 systems including the procurement of vehicles, field materials, and the use of field funds.
"Take field vehicles as an example. We have clarified the methods and procedures, further standardized the text of the contract, improved the market competition bidding mechanism, forced the return of vehicle leasing to reasonable prices, and reduced rent-seeking space." Tang Chengmin, Secretary of the Commission for Discipline Inspection of Oil and Gas Center, introduced.
At the same time, the Oil and Gas Center has introduced audit agencies to carry out special audits of key projects and assets in a targeted manner to detect and deal with early problems early.
"In order to promote the organic integration of party building work and business work, and give full play to the leading role of party building, we promote the establishment of a working mechanism where the party committee secretary grasps the leadership in charge, the leadership in charge grasps the department in charge, and the functional department grasps the specific supervision of the work mechanism, and formulates and refines the annual party style The goal of the task of building a clean government is to align the work of governing the party and the work of "two-fold and one-dominant" with research, deployment, implementation, and assessment, and layered responsibilities." Tang Chengmin said.
Rectify the "four winds" and establish a new wind.
In the first half of this year, the principals of the Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Team of the Ministry of Natural Resources visited 18 offices of the Oil and Gas Center, had face-to-face talks with party members and cadres, reminded them, and encouraged them to learn from experience and lessons, set up the correct orientation, and be politically hard, professional and capable. , Excellent style, clean and strict.
Fight a combination of punches, special governance cracks the local regulation system to manage the party and party governance
"The problems related to Mei Yanhui and Ma Yongsheng occurred after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Some problems are universal. This shows that the geopolitical system still has gaps in implementing the policy and deployment of comprehensive and strict governance of the party." In the book, the Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Team of the Ministry of Natural Resources asked the Geological Survey Bureau's party group to seriously study and judge the situation of the party in an all-round and strict manner, and put forward suggestions on four issues.
“Among the projects of various units of the geological survey system, some are prospecting for minerals, oil and gas, some are for geological scientific research, and some are for emergency treatment of geological disasters, but they are similar in work flow. We hope to use typical cases to promote system-wide comparative investigations. Similar issues, promote in-depth governance." The principal of the discipline inspection and supervision team said.
According to reports, the party group of the Geological Survey last year deployed joint special inspections in five areas including field projects, commissioned operations, material procurement, bidding and bidding, and contract management, and found 19 major problems in six areas.
This year, 4 special investigations and inspections have been deployed for violations of the spirit of the eight central regulations, selection and appointment of personnel, and 4 special investigations and inspections for infrastructure construction projects and the construction of grassroots party organizations.
"In response to the problems discovered, a rectification list has been formulated to promote the prevention and resolution of quality, integrity, and integrity risks in project implementation and use of funds." The relevant person in charge of the Geological Survey Bureau told reporters.
Special rectification of illegal eating and drinking problems, special treatment of illegal expenditures of field projects, special treatment of selection and employment problems... After a set of rectification and reforms, the system of the Geographical Investigation Bureau's management of the party and the party’s “high heat, medium temperature and cool” problem has gradually been improved.
In the first three quarters of 2021, the number of related letters and visits received by the Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Team dropped significantly over the same period.
"Comprehensive and strict governance of the party is always on the road. The main theme of strictness must be adhered to for a long time. The idea of strictness in place, strictness to the end, and strictness must not be fostered." The secretary's forum requires that the main responsibilities of the party committee and party group be consolidated, the discipline inspection department shall perform the supervision responsibility, and the management and business departments must earnestly assume the supervision responsibilities, work in the same direction, and promote the continuous optimization of the political ecology in the field of natural resources.
Our reporter Huang Qiuxia Zuo Handi