Eradicate the living soil of gambling behavior and strengthen education, management and supervision
Don't let gambling ruin young cadres
During the World Cup is often a period of high incidence of gambling fraud.
Right now, the 2022 Qatar World Cup is in full swing. Public security agencies in many places have issued reminders, calling on netizens to stay away from online gambling. Some video websites have also banned accounts involved in gambling diversion.
The reporter combed through the violations of discipline and law investigated by the discipline inspection and supervision agencies in recent years and found that it is not uncommon for party members and cadres to lose their faith and fall into the abyss of corruption due to gambling.
There is still a long way to go to eradicate the living soil of gambling and other unhealthy tendencies and strengthen the education, management and supervision of young cadres.
Chen Ke was originally a fourth-level sergeant of the Seventh Brigade of the Traffic Police Detachment of Nanning Public Security Bureau, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
In February of this year, the "post-80s" cadre was sentenced to two years and four months in prison for accepting bribes and fined 150,000 yuan.
Chen Ke's transformation began in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
Watching football with his friends, he registered an account on a betting website with the mentality of "playing and playing". Starting from 50 or 100 yuan, he continued to increase his betting intensity and lost more and more times. All savings, lost the house, and owed high gambling debts.
In order to repay the debt, Chen Ke began to actively contact the parties suspected of traffic violations at work, and collected "favor fees" in the name of helping them avoid the revocation of their driver's licenses.
According to the investigation by the discipline inspection and supervision agency, from January 2019 to November 2020, Chen Ke used the convenience of his position to seek benefits for more than 20 traffic offenders while working in the Seventh Brigade from January 2019 to November 2020, and illegally received more than 600,000 yuan in money.
Compared with Chen Ke, the "post-90s" cadre Zhong Yaozhen's road to gambling is even crazier.
He was involved in gambling when he was in college. After working in the Economic and Technological Development Division Center of Jiaxing Real Estate Registration Service Center in Zhejiang Province, he became more obsessed with online gambling. He even placed bets on his mobile phone while handling business for the masses while registering at the window.
According to the case-handling personnel of the discipline inspection and supervision agency, Zhong Yaozhen owed nearly 20 million yuan in debts in online gambling, and used nearly two packs of A4 paper just to print his current accounts.
Faced with the pressure of debt collection, Zhong Yaozhen and his colleagues took advantage of their positions to collect "favor fees" from real estate agencies and their clients by issuing "no house certificates" in violation of regulations, causing serious losses to the national tax revenue.
At present, Zhong Yaozhen's suspected job crime case has been tried in the People's Court of Xiuzhou District, Jiaxing City.
The reporter noticed that some young cadres are not only participants in online gambling, but also planners and organizers of offline gambling.
What's more, by helping gambling websites solicit gamblers to make profits, they will go further and further on the road of crime.
Zhang Yu, born in 1981, is the former party member and general manager of Fuxian Lake Protection Development Investment Co., Ltd. in Yuxi City, Yunnan Province.
According to the investigation by the brokerage inspection and supervision agency, from October 2016 to September 2021, Zhang Yu and his company colleagues used the odds of the European Cup, World Cup, and the "Five Major European Leagues" given by the mobile phone software to gamble by buying teams to win or lose. The gambling funds were settled through WeChat, and the gambling funds involved in the case totaled 190,873.33 yuan.
Zhang Yu was expelled from the party in April this year, and his suspected duty-related crimes have been handed over to the procuratorate for review and prosecution.
Li Gaofeng, born in 1994, has been fond of football since he was a child. He also joined the school football team during college.
While watching the 2018 World Cup in Russia, he was already a staff member of the Chengbei Company in Jianghua Yao Autonomous County, Hunan Province. He started to get in touch with gambling, and gradually turned his interest into a vice.
As the gambling debts piled up, Li Gaofeng began to post information for gambling websites to attract gamblers in WeChat groups and QQ groups, earning "capital fees" from them.
In the meantime, Li Gaofeng also took advantage of his position as a land acquisition accountant and data officer to embezzle the state's land acquisition compensation funds for debt repayment by impersonating others.
In March this year, Li Gaofeng was sentenced to three years and two months in prison and fined 160,000 yuan for corruption and opening a casino.
Looking at the cases involving gambling, from watching football to gambling, from fans to gamblers, can be described as the common experience of these young cadres.
The root cause is the lack of ideals and beliefs and a weak sense of purpose.
"We found in the case that some young cadres do not pay attention to the cultivation of party spirit, have serious thoughts of worshiping money, and lack determination in the face of temptation." Xu Yi, head of the First Inspection and Investigation Office of the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Committee of Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province, gave an example. Yu Junjie, a staff member, usually pursues a high-consumption life and likes to buy brand-name products. His consumption level obviously exceeds his income level, so he has to find ways to make "quick money". Online gambling, including gambling, has become an important choice for him.
Judging from their gambling experience, most of these young cadres have little social experience, are blindly optimistic and confident, especially do not have enough understanding of the dangers of online gambling, and often open the door to "gambling" with a "playing" mentality.
On the basis of firmly grasping the "master switch" of ideals and beliefs, it is necessary to further strengthen discipline and law education, increase anti-gambling and anti-fraud propaganda, and purify the network environment and football environment.
"Young people lack the ability to distinguish right from wrong, plus they think they have rich professional football knowledge and use 'intelligence' to win money. From being cautious at the beginning, to winning small money and wanting to win big money, losing money and wanting to get back the money. Turning around will lead to losing everything.” Xu Yi introduced that after Yu Junjie came into contact with the information on football betting from the live broadcast of the World Cup, he believed that he was very familiar with football matches, so he opened an account and turned a small bet into a big bet.
"Football is one of the most influential sports in our country and is deeply loved by the masses. However, betting on football completely violates the true meaning of football and even violates laws and regulations." Yan Zhanhe, Secretary of the Disciplinary Committee of the Chinese Football Association, said that young cadres should Correctly treat hobbies and strictly abide by party discipline and state laws. "As an industry association, we also call on the whole society to jointly resist bad phenomena such as gambling, purify the football environment together, and jointly create a clean and upright football development environment."
"Gambling" and "greed" are closely linked, and there is often a problem of power rent-seeking behind party members, cadres and public officials participating in gambling.
In Xu Yi's view, some units have imperfect internal supervision systems, non-standard work procedures, out-of-control supervision, and useless approvals, leaving room for lawbreakers to embezzle public funds for gambling.
"It is necessary to insist on promoting the integration of not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt, to do a good job in the investigation and handling of cases in the second half of the article, to promote the improvement of personnel and financial management systems of relevant units, and to further promote the supervision and management inside and outside the 'eight hours'. At the same time, Strengthen communication and cooperation with public security organs, and resolutely eradicate the living soil of various gambling activities." Xu Yi told reporters.
Our reporter Qu Peng