Embezzlement, fraudulent acquisition of private shares, embezzlement of compensation funds, huge amount of money involved and bad social impact
Severely punish petty officials in land acquisition and demolition
A few days ago, the website of the Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision of Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province reported that it had opened a case for investigation of Zhu Zhonghao, former deputy head of the People’s Government of Runzhou District, for serious violations of the law, and decided to expel him from public office; confiscated his illegal gains; he was suspected of committing a crime. The problem was transferred to the procuratorial organ for review and prosecution in accordance with the law, and the property involved was transferred along with the case.
The notice showed that its "private use of public power to defraud the state's compensation for demolition and relocation."
In the process of land requisition and demolition, a project can range from several million yuan to hundreds of million yuan. It is fund-intensive and resource-concentrated. There is a risk of clean government and violations of discipline and law occur from time to time.
These corruption, bribery, and dereliction of duty not only cause significant losses to national property and the interests of the people, but also have a negative impact on the healthy development of the economy and society, and social harmony and stability. They must be investigated and dealt with seriously.
Village cadres repeatedly receive compensation for demolition, misappropriation and illegal expenditures are not recorded in the account; the clerk of the Demolition and Resettlement Section falsely issues receipts and collects the house price difference
Song Yongsheng, the former director of the village committee of Ximaqu Village, Longquan Street, Wuzhi County, Henan Province, has another identity-a debt-ridden glass factory owner.
His business was not going well, he embezzled and misappropriated public funds many times over a period of 8 years, involving more than 7 million yuan.
In 2003, the village collective enterprise glass factory was on the verge of bankruptcy, and Song Yongsheng took over.
Due to lack of experience and technology, the glass factory has been in a state of loss for more than ten years, with debts of up to 16 million yuan.
Just when Song Yongsheng was in despair, in early 2012, Ximaqu Village carried out land acquisition and demolition. The glass factory contracted by him was within the scope of the demolition, and the compensation amount was RMB 6,791,500.
Since then, Song Yongsheng received 3 million yuan in compensation from the special account twice on August 5 and November 9, 2012.
In January 2013, the regional planning of Wuzhi County was adjusted. Ximaqu Village was transferred from the original Longyuan Town Government to Longquan Sub-district Office for management. The financial procedures of the village were then transferred to the Finance Office of Longquan Sub-district Office, and land acquisition compensation was used exclusively for compensation. The account was left in the original Longyuan Town Government.
Therefore, Song Yongsheng deliberately concealed the relevant facts and asked his wife to repeatedly receive the compensation in the financial office 17 times.
Song Yongsheng confessed to the case handlers afterwards: "If I didn't say that I had already received 3 million yuan in Longyuan, no one would know about this. After arriving at the Longquan office, since I was still responsible for the demolition work, I would have the opportunity to receive it again. "
Afterwards, the “village committees” of Ximaqu learned that the demolished people were worried that they would not be able to receive compensation in time, so they applied to the sub-district office to receive a portion of the funds as a reserve fund.
This convenient arrangement for the masses once again let Song Yongsheng take advantage of the loopholes.
From April 2013 to May 2018, Song Yongsheng received a reserve fund of 6.845 million yuan in the hands of the Finance Office of Longquan Sub-district Office and Accountant Leng in Ximaqu Village under various names, but did not enter the village financial account.
According to the case handlers of the Wuzhi County Commission for Discipline Inspection, Song Yongsheng embezzled more than 4 million yuan and spent more than 2 million yuan in violation of regulations, except for a small part of the money for compensation and village affairs.
On January 13, 2021, Song Yongsheng was expelled from the party and transferred to judicial organs for review and prosecution in accordance with the law.
On August 30, the court sentenced Song Yongsheng to the crime of embezzlement and embezzlement of public funds, and decided to execute 15 years in prison, fined 500,000 yuan, and recovered more than 7,323,700 yuan in illegal income.
Village cadres are not the only ones who make profits in the demolition process.
Chen Ran, formerly a post-90s clerk in the Demolition and Resettlement Section of Huaiyin District Urban Asset Management Co., Ltd., Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province, has long been addicted to online gambling.
In January 2021, Chen Ran was assigned to the demolition office of Xingguang B and C plots in Huaiyin District.
Before long, he discovered a loophole in financial management: To facilitate his work, the blank financial receipt had been stamped with an official seal before receiving it, but it was not centrally and properly kept, and the account was not checked at ordinary times. This meant that the money was billed privately, and the money was not accounted for. It is not easy to be found.
By chance, acquaintance Yin entrusted Chen Ran to take the house, and transferred the difference of 31440 yuan to Chen Ran.
Chen Ran, who was worried about gambling money, imitated the signature of a financial officer and issued a receipt to Yin in private.
In just one month, Chen Ran followed the law and collected 20 demolition resettlement households with nearly 400,000 yuan of house price difference and garage payment.
“Due to the chaotic financial management of the asset company, closed-loop management of receipt and use of bills and fund reconciliation was not formed, resulting in Chen Ran having the opportunity to embezzle public funds privately.” said Yu Yunling, deputy director of the First Discipline Inspection and Supervision Office of the Huaiyin District Commission for Discipline Inspection.
Until March this year, a demolition resettlement household requested a house transfer and provided the company with a false receipt issued by Chen Ran, and the matter was finally revealed.
After investigation, from January to March 2021, Chen Ran privately used more than 70 bills obtained by stealing to issue receipts for 34 demolition resettlement households, and collected a total of more than 1.348 million yuan for house price difference and garage payments, which were mainly used online Gambling and personal consumption.
In October 2021, Chen Ran was transferred to the procuratorial organ for review and prosecution on suspicion of embezzlement of public funds.
It ranges from 10,000 to 20,000, and as many as 100,000. The goose plucking hair receives the benefits of nearly 80 people, which drives the collective corruption of colleagues in the unit.
Although the position is not high, Wang Hongwei has considerable power to decide on matters involving major interests, such as how much compensation the relocated households can compensate, what location (floor) the compensation is paid, and who is capable of the residual value business on the demolition site.
Wang Hongwei, who has been engaged in demolition and relocation control for a long time, is an "old relocation" who is well-versed in relevant policies and regulations.
After serving as the director of the Sixth Institute of Demolition Affairs of the House Expropriation Management Service Center in Anhui Province, he quickly realized that he had power. , On the contrary, it feels that it is a manifestation of its own value."
It ranges from 10,000 to 20,000 to as many as hundreds of thousands. From small to optimal settlement for demolition to obtain more compensation for demolition, to large to contracting the sale of residual value of house demolition, Wang Hongwei has received the benefits of nearly 80 people.
"In order to complete the demolition tasks assigned by superiors in advance, Wang Hongwei generally relaxed the demolition policies, and relaxed the conditions indefinitely for the households concerned. This kind of demolition as long as the quantity is not quality, the impact is extremely bad, and the empty check he promised is also for the follow-up demolition. Hidden dangers have been planted by the work." The case handler said.
From 2016 to 2020, Wang Hongwei took advantage of his position to provide assistance to others in terms of contracting projects, illegal household division, illegal renaming, priority house selection, settlement, etc., and successively received RMB 2.674 million and RMB 0.5 million from others. Yuan supermarket shopping card, 20,000 Yuan hotel consumption card.
Seeing Wang Hongwei's disregard for laws and disciplines and seeking power for profit, the deputy directors of the six institutes Zhang Song, Ma Chengqi, and staff Duan Xiaowei, instead of exposing the report, were frustrated.
Since helping his friends to use the "House Attachment Registration Form" and calculating the compensation of nearly 10,000 yuan for decoration attachments, Zhang Song's thought line of defense gradually collapsed, and he began to accept food from the demolished households, accept gifts, cash and other properties, and act as a deputy office. In the last three years, the amount involved was more than 1 million yuan.
Ma Chengqi is mainly engaged in the reception of letters and visits in the six institutes, and provides policy and legal consulting services for relocated households.
In the work of relocation, he knew the law and violated the law, used power for personal gain, used his position to seek benefits for others, and received more than 500,000 yuan in property from more than ten management service objects.
Staff Duan Xiaowei not only accepts various gifts and money from the demolished households, but also forges files for himself to obtain a set of demolished resettlement houses.
On June 18, 2021, the first instance of the court sentenced Wang Hongwei to the crime of bribery and corruption, and decided to execute a fixed-term imprisonment of 5 years and 6 months, and fined him 450,000 yuan, and his illegal gains of 2.531 million yuan were recovered and turned over to the state treasury.
The remaining 3 people were also dealt with.
Initiation of requisition, ownership review, compensation and resettlement are the frequent occurrences of violations of discipline and law in land requisition and demolition.
Yang Dan, member of the Standing Committee of the Xinluo District Committee, Secretary of the District Disciplinary Committee, and Director of the Supervisory Committee of Longyan City, Fujian Province, told reporters that violations of laws and regulations in the field of land requisition and relocation mainly occurred in three links: First, the initiation of requisition and relocation. In order to obtain generous returns, some houses were expropriated. The company seeks rent through power and bribes money and goods to decision makers in order to achieve the purpose of obtaining the right to contract for expropriation projects and speeding up the progress of the payment of expropriation and relocation service fees.
The second is the ownership review process. Some public officials forged land use right certificates, housing property rights certificates, and building certificates for personal gain in order to defraud state compensation or accept bribes from stakeholders.
The third is the compensation and resettlement link. Due to the inadequate performance of duties by individual units or departments or the deliberate indulgence, the houses that have been expropriated and compensated are again included in the scope of compensation for expropriation of the new project. "And other issues.
Taking Xinluo District as an example, the problems of violation of laws and regulations in the field of land acquisition and demolition present the following characteristics: First, the targets are concentrated among party and government leaders and village cadres, and there are more cases of collusion; second, the means are mainly to use power. Defrauding compensation payments through illegal operations to satisfy personal interests; third, the amount involved is huge and the social impact is bad.
Judging from the content of people’s letters and visits and reports, they mainly focused on embezzlement and fraud, fraudulent acquisition of private shares, embezzlement and misappropriation of compensation funds, unclear whereabouts of compensation payments, not paid in place, and different compensation standards, grass-roots cadres receiving money and materials and other issues.
The main reasons are the lack of ideological education, the lack of internal supervision, and the lack of supervision by the masses.
Wang Hongwei and others confessed in the "confession" that they are usually busy accepting tasks arranged by their superiors and negotiating with the demolished households, and their political studies are relatively loose.
In addition, in the face of temptation, self-discipline is not strong, and gradually went astray.
The investigators of the Wang Hongwei case discovered that there were many problems in the institution, including incomplete file materials, improper filling in, unclear resettlement housing, unclear whereabouts, random payment of compensation for demolition and resettlement, and lax procedural requirements.
On the surface, it seems that management is chaotic. The deep-seated reason is that the superior authority has given it too much power. It does not supervise, inspect, or centrally keep the demolition files. The resettlement houses allocated to the house are not recorded uniformly, and resettlement compensation is not performed. The payment only needs to be signed and approved by the director, and the payment does not need to be reviewed...All these provide room for Wang Hongwei and others to be corrupt.
"Organizational life is a mere formality, the village affairs are open and falsified, and the village cadres turn their eyes off. Various reasons have caused Song Yongsheng to be in charge of one person and one person." Li Hong, the party branch secretary of Ximaqu Village, reflected after the military, "because it is a colleague. He looked down and didn’t see him. I didn’t want to offend him. There were many things I didn’t ask carefully.” A member of the Village Supervision Committee reflected: “We are too old and don’t understand financial expertise. There are many things in the village that Song Yongsheng doesn’t follow. We said that there are very few meetings to report, and the village supervisory committee does not know how to carry out supervision."
The demolition involves a wide range and intensive interests, but the people who are not involved in the demolition are often unaware of the situation, and the demolition households are tight-lipped outside because they have interests involved in it.
Demolition households with benefits transfer form a symbiotic relationship with the demolition agency, and they are silent on violations of laws and regulations; relocation households without benefit transfer are afraid that they will be unfairly treated by reporting and exposing, and they dare or unwilling to stand up, and it is difficult for the masses to supervise them. Effectiveness.
Deepen the use of cases to promote reforms, fill the loopholes in the system, strengthen daily supervision, and cut off the chain of power for private interests in the field of demolition at the grassroots level
Corruption in demolition and demolition violations occurs around the masses, infringing upon the vital interests of the masses, and damaging the authority of the implementation of various policies.
According to the person in charge of the Commission for Discipline Inspection of Pinghu City, Zhejiang Province, since this year, Pinghu City has focused on 12 major issues and weak links in the field of illegal demolition and demolition, carried out special governance on corruption in the field of illegal demolition and demolition, and opened a total of 20 cases to deal with corruption issues. Among them, 30 were punished by party discipline and government affairs, and 1 was transferred to judicial organs.
The city’s Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision established a special management office in the field of demolition and demolition violations, and implemented the “three actions” mechanism driven by the main body, the linkage of the office and the organization, and the supervision drive, requiring the three reforms and one demolition office, the Development and Reform Bureau, the Natural Resources and Planning Bureau and other departments Hold a mobilization and deployment meeting to convey requirements, self-inspection and self-correction; the discipline inspection and supervision office and the stationed agencies closely follow the four major channels of letters and visits and reports, corrective discipline, inspections and audits, and review investigations to carry out clues investigations and start; the next step will be deepened. Explore the mechanism and nature of corruption, identify the difficulties, pain points, and blockages in demolition and demolition violations, promote party committees (party groups) and relevant functional departments at all levels to accelerate the digital reform of demolition and demolition violations and reshape mechanisms and systems, and promote demolition and demolition violations. Closed loop management.
In response to the confusion in financial management exposed by the Chen Ran case, on November 16, 2021, the Huaiyin District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision issued a publicly delivered supervision proposal to the District Urban Asset Management Co., Ltd., requesting the company to analyze the case, analyze the reasons, and find loopholes. The implementation of the unit’s financial system has been rectified centrally, and the management of bills and funds has been further improved, and a closed-loop management of bill collection, use, reconciliation, and capital verification has been formed, which has achieved the goal of investigating and handling a case, educating a group of cadres, improving a set of systems, and solving a class of problems. Effect.
The Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision of Si County severely investigated and dealt with the corruption case of Wang Hongwei and others, effectively cutting off the chain of power for private interests in the field of demolition at the grassroots level.
The county’s Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision did a “second half of the article” around this case, urged relevant units to investigate loopholes and tighten the system cage.
"Trust cannot replace supervision. No matter how small the power is, once it loses supervision, corruption will occur. Although the Song Yongsheng case is a unique case, the reason why it has been successful repeatedly is basically taking advantage of the lack of supervision." Wuzhi County Party Committee Li Junli, member of the Standing Committee, Secretary of the County Commission for Discipline Inspection and Director of the Supervisory Committee, stated that the next step will be to promote reforms with cases, strengthen the education of party members and cadres, strengthen disciplinary awareness, make up for system loopholes, strengthen daily supervision and inspection, and contain the people around the masses from the source. Corruption and unhealthy trends.
Our reporter Guan Xiaopu