Jimu News trainee reporter Huang Jiaqi
Intern Zhou Yujia
In June 2021, a judicial auction blew up the Internet. At that time, the Intermediate People's Court of Chuzhou City, Anhui Province, auctioned the property involved in a corruption case, including a "blue-eyed white dragon" game card. It is a souvenir of an online game without any actual features. The starting price was 80 yuan, but I did not expect that the auction was only half an hour, and the bidding was raised to 87 million yuan. Although this is only the result of netizens holding a hilarious mentality to bid arbitrarily, no one really pays the bill, resulting in a stream of auctions, but this game card and its former owner Zhang Yujie, but this has attracted high attention from the society.
On the evening of January 19, the fifth episode of the anti-corruption feature film "Zero Tolerance", "Forever on the Road", was broadcast, revealing the details of the case of Zhang Yujie, a grassroots public official in Chuzhou City, Anhui Province, who embezzled huge amounts of public funds.
Zhang Yujie
Greedy because of playing online games
Zhang Yujie, born on March 23, 1995, is a native of Chuzhou City, Anhui Province.
On June 24, 2014, Zhang Yujie signed an employment and labor contract with Chuzhou Labor Service Cooperation Center and was dispatched to work at Chuzhou Real Estate Transaction Supervision Office (later renamed Chuzhou Real Estate Registration Center).
Zhang Yujie's idea of embezzling public funds is related to playing online games.
One day in 2016, a buyer brought tens of thousands of yuan in cash to handle the custody of funds, because according to the regulations, he could only pay by card, Zhang Yujie first went through the formalities for him, deposited cash into his card, and planned to help him swipe the card to pay the next day. When playing the game that night, due to the recharge to buy equipment, he could not control the tens of thousands of yuan spent.
Zhang Yujie wanted to slowly save money to fill this gap, but he didn't expect that no one had found it, so he was bold, "At this time, I began to think, I get a little more, it should be okay, the back is really like an avalanche, can't stop at all." ”
The experience after recharging in the game made Zhang Yujie addicted. He said: "I have never felt that I am better than others, I have been more capable or powerful than others, and once such an emotion appears at this time, I find that this feeling is addictive, which is a vanity and comparison that I cannot experience in reality." ”
Nearly 70 million embezzlements were squandered
Zhang Yujie's embezzlement of nearly 70 million yuan was almost squandered at the time of the crime, and it was still a minority spent on games, most of which was used for various high-end consumption.
He has made three girlfriends, bought clothes, watches and jewelry for them from various luxury brands, traveled to various places, and experienced various luxury enjoyments together.
Zhang Yujie said, "After starting to consume, I found that I could not control my desire to consume. The amount of money in the back you can't get on, at this time the mentality of breaking the jar is out again, I think it hasn't been discovered anyway, so let's do it first. ”
He rented a house with a monthly rent of 30,000 800 in Shanghai, worked in Chuzhou during the day, and took the high-speed train to Shanghai after work to enjoy the luxurious life of Shanghai.
As long as there was no money to spend, Zhang Yujie reached out to public funds, embezzling more than 400 times in three years.
In 2019, he planned to get married, so he bought a second-hand villa in the name of his girlfriend, did not pay a penny for the house, and used his position to falsely open a set of fund custody procedures, and the purchase price was paid from the capital pool.
Dereliction of duty and dereliction of duty by the relevant personnel
Most of the above-mentioned funds embezzled by Zhang Yujie are custody funds paid by buyers.
The function of the fund custodian institution is to provide an intermediate third-party fund custody platform for the buyer and seller of the second-hand house to ensure the safety of the transaction; the buyer will hand over the house payment to the fund custodian institution, enter the capital pool, complete the transaction procedures after review, and then lend money from the capital pool to the seller's account. Receiving, reviewing, and handling vouchers are all one-stop operations by Zhang Yujie, giving him the opportunity to take advantage of it.
In fact, Zhang Yujie's embezzlement methods are quite simple. The case-handling personnel said, "Zhang Yujie's entire embezzlement method is to open false vouchers, and this money actually did not hit the pool of the prescribed second-hand house, but hit his account." ”
According to the relevant system introduced by Chuzhou City in 2011, the fund custody window must be set up separately, one person receives the document, one person reviews, one person handles the voucher, and supervises each other, but the real estate registration center has never been implemented according to the system, from the main leader to the section chief, and no one even knows that there is this system.
Most of the huge amounts of money squandered are difficult to recover, causing huge losses to the state, and the investigation determined that a total of 19 party-member leading cadres and public officials at all levels have different degrees of responsibility and have been held accountable, among which the chief of the transaction management section and the deputy chief of the section have constituted the crime of dereliction of duty and have been sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment.
Exposed due to the outbreak
The case-handling staff said, "In March 2020, when the epidemic was at its worst, all transactions stopped, and the original pool of funds was in and out at the same time, and when the epidemic came, it could only go in and out, and it kept going out to the end, and the bank account had no money." ”
The fund pool was empty, but there was still a fund gap of nearly 70 million yuan to be paid, and after investigation, Zhang Yujie was quickly locked.
3 years after the incident, it was exposed because of the epidemic. Even Zhang Yujie himself felt incredible: "This loophole is very easy to plug, as long as you really want to be right, basically it doesn't take half an hour to get right." ”
After investigation, in the more than three years from 2016 to 2019, he took the method of not recording the collection and forging the facts of the collection, and successively embezzled more than 69 million yuan of public funds for online games and consumption squandering.
In November 2020, Zhang Yujie was sentenced to life imprisonment and confiscated all personal property.
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