He was once named by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection as "petty officials and huge greed", so why did a small trade union officer of the Bank of Communications accept a bribe of more than ten million yuan?

Reporter | Zhang Xiaoyun

A few days ago, the Shanghai Pudong New Area People's Court disclosed a criminal judgment showing that Yu Tao, a former trade union employee of the Bank of Communications and the current secretary of the Youth League Committee of the organ, accepted bribes totaling 10.72 million yuan and embezzled 820,000 yuan of the bank's funds, and was sentenced to 9 years in prison.

It is worth noting that the case was once named by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection as "petty officials and huge greed." A small union employee can accept bribes of more than ten million yuan, which surprises the outside world.

On December 26, 2019, according to the Announcement of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, after a large amount of preliminary work and on the basis of effective evidence, the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Team of the Bank of Communications and the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Commission of the Pudong New Area Discipline Inspection Commission cooperated to investigate and deal with the case of Yu Tao, a trade union cadre of the former Head Office's Employee Department, which was widely publicized and formed a strong deterrent in the whole bank.

After the case occurred, according to the relevant comrades of the discipline inspection and supervision group stationed at the Bank of Communications, "in the Yutao case, around the regulatory responsibility and approval loopholes, revealing the problems of chaotic management of trade union lines and funds, and serious lack of centralized procurement supervision, a supervision proposal was issued to relevant units, and the "Detailed Rules for the Implementation of trade union financial management authorization" and other systems were issued to supervise the formulation of systems such as the "Detailed Rules for the Implementation of trade union financial management authorization", and timely cut off the chain of interests, plug regulatory loopholes, and build a solid ideological defense line. ”

According to the verdict, Yu Tao, male, was born on March 25, 1983. After trial, it was found that from April 2012 to March 2019, when Yu Tao was serving as a senior trade union officer of the employee department of Bank of Communications Co., Ltd. and secretary of the Youth League Committee of the organ, he took advantage of his position in charge of organizing the Bank of Communications to carry out labor competitions, employee care, workers' homes, health huts, happiness indexes and other projects to seek benefits for business units, from which he solicited and accepted bribes totaling more than 10.72 million yuan.

There are 7 enterprises involved in the bribery case. Respectively, Shanghai Xinrui Industrial Co., Ltd., Shanghai Glio Enterprise Management Consulting Co., Ltd., Shanghai Youyijia Health Management Consulting Co., Ltd., and Shanghai Xinrong Health Technology Co., Ltd., the relevant personnel of these 7 companies have sent money to Yu Tao, both the company took the initiative to pay bribes, and Yu Tao asked for bribes from the enterprise. Among them, Shanghai Xinrui Industry involved the largest amount of money, up to 7.2 million yuan.

In addition, during his tenure as a senior trade union officer of the Employee Department of the Bank of Communications and the secretary of the Youth League Committee of the organ, Yu Tao took advantage of his position in charge of organizing the Bank of Communications to carry out the New Employee Competition, the Vocational Skills Style Competition, and the procurement of trophies, certificates and other projects, and colluded with others and took a total of 820,000 yuan from the Bank of Communications as his own.

The Shanghai Pudong New Area People's Court held that the defendant Yu Tao, as a staff member of the company, took advantage of his position to solicit and illegally accept property from others to seek benefits for others, and the amount was huge, and his conduct constituted the crime of accepting bribes from non-state functionaries; the defendants Yu Tao and Jiang Peng took advantage of Yu Tao's position for the purpose of illegal possession to jointly illegally occupy the property of the bank, and the amount was relatively large, and their acts constituted the crime of embezzlement of office.

The court rendered a first-instance judgment: defendant Yu Tao committed the crime of accepting bribes from non-state workers and was sentenced to 8 years' imprisonment; for the crime of embezzlement of office, sentenced to 2 years' imprisonment, decided to carry out the fixed-term imprisonment for 9 years, and confiscated the property of 500,000 yuan. At the same time, enterprises such as Xinrui Company and related responsible persons who paid bribes to Yu Tao were sentenced to the crime of bribery.