Recently, the fifth episode of the five-episode TV special "Zero Tolerance," "Forever on the Road," jointly produced by the Propaganda Department of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission and the Central Radio and Television General Station, was broadcast. This episode reveals a case of embezzlement of public funds for the purchase of game equipment.
In the past 3 years, the collection has not been recorded in the account, and the embezzlement of public funds has reached more than 69 million yuan
In June 2021, a judicial auction sparked a hot discussion on 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 function, but because of the global limited circulation of 500 copies, the market price is about 100,000 yuan.
Unexpectedly, only half an hour after the start of the auction, 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.
Zhang Yujie (former staff member of the Real Estate Registration Center of Chuzhou City, Anhui Province): Bought with stolen money. At that time, I also spent more than 50,000 yuan when I bought it, and when I was a child, I paid attention to this thing, which was a child's thought at that time, and I bought it back.
Zhang Yujie, a staff member of the Real Estate Registration Center in Chuzhou City, Anhui Province, was placed in lien in March 2020. His specific job is to receive citizens at the lobby window of the government service center, collect funds for the custody of houses, fill in the custody agreement, and issue bank deposit vouchers and fund custody vouchers. After investigation, in the more than 3 years from 2016 to 2019, he used methods such as not recording the collection of payments and forging the facts of the collections, and successively embezzled more than 69 million yuan of public funds.
Embezzle public funds to buy game equipment and make friends 100,000 yuan a night in a hotel for four consecutive nights
Compared with traditional corruption cases, the property involved in this case is very special, and there are many game equipment. The reason why he had the idea of embezzling public funds was 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. Who knew that when playing the game that night, due to the recharge to buy equipment, I couldn't control spending all these tens of thousands of yuan.
What makes Zhang Yujie addicted is a completely different game experience after recharging. In the online game world, as long as you are willing to spend money, you can become invincible and invincible.
The investigation found that Zhang Yujie's embezzlement of nearly 70 million yuan was almost squandered at the time of the crime, and it was still spent on the game, and most of it 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. The most expensive luxury undersea suite in a hotel in Hainan costs 100,000 yuan a night, and Zhang Yujie and a girlfriend stayed here for four consecutive nights. Naturally, he wouldn't tell his girlfriend how the money came from.
"My heart has always been uneasy, but when I spend money, my desire suppresses my uneasiness"
According to the feature film "Zero Tolerance", for a long time, Zhang Yujie worked in Chuzhou during the day, in fact, lived in Shanghai, took the high-speed rail from Chuzhou to Shanghai every night after work, rented a house in Shanghai, rented 38,000 a month, and then took the earliest high-speed rail to Chuzhou in the morning to work. The prosperity of Shanghai made him not consider these things of the unit, nor did he consider the things of corruption.
As long as there was no money to spend, Zhang Yujie once again reached out to public funds, embezzling more than 400 times in three years. It wasn't that he didn't think he would be exposed one day, but he couldn't control himself.
Zhang Yujie (former staff member of the Real Estate Registration Center in Chuzhou City, Anhui Province): I have always been uneasy in my heart, but when I spend money, that desire suppresses the uneasiness. I often dream that I am sitting on a police car, and several people in front of you are staring at you, and when you wake up, you find that there is nothing wrong, and you continue to numb yourself with consumption.
Financial management is extremely chaotic 19 party members, leading cadres and public officials are responsible
After investigation, Chuzhou City, from the municipal real estate transaction department, to the real estate registration center and the transaction management section, has been derelict in its duties and responsibilities. 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.
Zhou Likai (then director of the Chuzhou Real Estate Registration Center, who was placed on probation for two years and dismissed): I didn't know about this system, and I found it in the later investigation, but this thing was never implemented in the center or in the unit.
After the incident, the Chuzhou Municipal Supervision Commission found in the investigation that the financial management of the fund custody account was extremely chaotic, a large number of original fund vouchers and accounting materials had been lost, and the historical accounts were extremely unsound.
It is shocking that this is the case for a department that manages a large amount of money. As early as August 2016, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the National Development and Reform Commission and other seven ministries and commissions jointly issued a document requiring local authorities to inspect and evaluate the supervision and supervision system of second-hand housing funds, but the competent departments of Chuzhou City only issued documents requiring each unit to conduct self-inspection.
It is precisely because of the extreme lack of unit management that Zhang Yujie dares to take risks again and again. 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. Subsequently, he resigned from the unit, fantasizing that he might be able to get away with it. He did not expect that people are not as good as heaven, but because of the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, his behavior was quickly exposed.
Huang Anming (Chuzhou Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection Supervision Commission staff): In March 2020, when the epidemic was at its worst, all transactions stopped, originally the pool of funds was in and out at the same time, 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. In November 2020, Zhang Yujie was sentenced to life imprisonment.
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.
Wang Zhiran, Song Zijie
Source: People's Daily News