The "rats" of Anhui Province are hollowing out the "Underground Great Wall"? A nest full end

Civil air defense projects are known as the "Underground Great Wall" that protects the safety of people's lives and property. However, some officials regard the civil air defense project as a "cash machine" for personal gain, and turn the civil air defense office into a "black base" for "small circles" to collect money.

According to public information statistics, since 2020, more than 30 civil air defense cadres in Anhui have been dismissed, almost none of the 16 prefecture-level cities in the province have been spared, and the "old leaders at the department level" who have been retired for 9 years have also been "big up"; some directors of the civil air defense office have "reduced" developers by a large amount of money in violation of the law, the civil air defense association has become an "association of old leaders with goods", and the monopolistic high price of some air defense materials has aroused "public indignation" in the construction industry.

Anhui's "civil air defense anti-corruption storm" has uncovered a series of corrupt acts that are shocking and expose long-standing loopholes in systems and supervision.

In the impression of many people, the Civil Air Defense Office is an "unpopular unit" with a somewhat mysterious feeling. However, since 2020, with the deepening of The "Civil Air Defense and Anti-Corruption Storm" in Anhui and the disclosure of information, people have found that this place was originally a high-risk area with a high incidence of corruption.

Earlier, the Supervision Commission of the Anhui Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission released the news that Chen Peng, former director of the Xuancheng City Civil Air Defense Office, was suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and was investigated, which is the fourth municipal civil air defense office in Anhui Province to fall since 2020. Earlier, Gu Quanmin, former director of the Bozhou Municipal Civil Air Defense Office, Cheng Yaoguang, former director of the Hefei Municipal Civil Air Defense Office, and Wang Fuzhi, former director of the Anqing Municipal Civil Air Defense Office, had already stepped down one after another.

At the provincial level, three departmental-level officials have been dismissed from the Anhui civil air defense system, including Tao Hai, former inspector of the Provincial Civil Air Defense Office, Li Yiming, former deputy director, and Guan Zhaolin, deputy director of the provincial civil air defense office, of which Tao Hai and Li Yiming have been retired for 3 years and 9 years respectively.

According to statistics, from the provincial and municipal levels to the county level, from the director and deputy director of the civil air defense office to the chief of the engineering section, the chief of the comprehensive section, and the director of the engineering quality supervision station, the civil air defense office at all levels in Anhui has accumulated more than 30 cadres who have been investigated, covering more than a dozen prefecture-level cities and many counties and districts in the province.

For example, Wang Fuzhi, former director of the Anqing Municipal Civil Air Defense Office, Chen Lihu, deputy director, and Shao Liang, chief of the Engineering and Technology Section. For example, not only did Chen Peng, former director of the Xuancheng City Civil Air Defense Office, and Liu Zilin, former researcher, fall from power, but the two section chiefs of the engineering section also "had accidents."

"Judging from the investigation and handling situation, there is a long-term, collective, and systematic 'collapse mode of corruption' in The civil air defense system in Anhui." A case-handler said.

1 Civil air defense examination and approval right acceptance right

Become a "corrupt node" and "sales chip"

The "Civil Air Defense Law" and the implementation measures stipulate that new civil buildings in cities shall be built in accordance with regulations. The construction opinions reviewed and issued by the civil air defense departments have become the preconditions for applying for construction project planning and construction permits for real estate and other development projects. In addition, the completion and acceptance of civil air defense projects requires the civil air defense department to issue approval documents. This "head-to-tail" right of examination and approval and acceptance has become a corrupt node for some people's defense officials to "borrow power to make money."

For example, Yu Mou, former chief of the engineering section of the Fuyang Municipal Civil Air Defense Office, accepted a bribe of 70,000 yuan from a local real estate businessman to speed up the approval progress of civil air defense projects in two residential communities and relax the review of construction drawing design documents. Knowing that the civil air defense project construction drawings of these two communities have not been completed, they still issued a construction opinion and allowed them to start construction.

According to the investigation, there are many "doorways" for civil air defense examination and approval, which can not only "make a fuss" in the size of the project area, but also "make a fuss" in adjusting the use of wartime and the level of protection.

Some officials not only accept bribes but also "borrow the right to sell", recommend engineering construction, drawing design, equipment procurement and other businesses to project owners, the sales price is often much higher than the market price, because of the fear that the approval and acceptance will be "picked" and "wear small shoes", many project owners have to bear the pain to pay.

It is understood that almost all the fallen civil air defense officials are involved in these issues. After accepting bribes, some people "turned a blind eye" to the shrinkage of the area of the civil air defense project, cutting corners, and substandard quality, which had an impact on the quality of the "Underground Great Wall."

2 The right to be willful

A reduction of several million yuan in ex-situ construction fees

Ex-situ construction costs are another "hard-hit area" for civil air defense and corruption. According to regulations, new civil buildings are not suitable for the construction of air defense basements due to geological, topographical, structural and other reasons, and the construction units or individuals shall pay the construction fee for the relocation of civil air defense projects, and the civil air defense departments shall make unified plans and build them.

However, some defense officials have abused their powers by allowing developers to defer, underpay or even waive ex-situ construction fees. The former person in charge of a civil air defense office in a certain city in Anhui Province decided without authorization to reduce or waive the construction fee for two real estate projects of two developers, reduce the fee for one of the projects by 650 yuan per square meter, and "subtract" the area of civil air defense that should be built for the other project by 4,000 square meters, and the two projects have reduced or waived nearly 4 million yuan in violation of the law, causing huge public losses.

According to the case-handling personnel, with the rapid urbanization process and large-scale real estate development in recent years, the power of the Civil Air Defense Office has become hot, and some officials have "the right to be willful" and "abuse their powers" and "exceed their powers" in collecting construction fees for ex-situ construction. "Some real estate projects are divided into one phase, two phases and three phases, the development cycle is as long as several years or even ten years, the construction fee that should have been paid before the start of construction, the civil air defense office allowed him to pay after completion, and the interest saved is a lot of income." Some developers even walk away after completion, and the arrears of construction fees have become bad debts. ”

The state has long stipulated that any locality and department cannot use the construction of fewer or no air defense basements or the reduction or reduction of construction fees for ex-situ as preferential conditions for attracting investment and investment, but some places still cross the red line. For example, the Civil Air Defense Office of Anhui County has reduced or waived more than 7.12 million yuan in the construction fee of a real estate enterprise on the grounds of attracting investment and investment. After a public interest lawsuit initiated by the People's Procuratorate of Yanshan County, the People's Court of Yanshan County issued an administrative judgment in May 2020, requiring the County People's Air Defense Office to perform its duty of recovering the construction fees for the civil air defense project involved in the case.

3 Monopoly and high prices

People in the construction industry "dare to be angry and dare not speak"

It is understood that another outstanding manifestation of civil air defense corruption is the monopoly and high price of equipment procurement. "Taking the secret-related as an excuse for monopoly, many people's air defense equipment cannot find similar commodities on the market to compare prices, and can only purchase high prices from the designated suppliers." According to a case-handling personnel, for example, a civil air defense project protection door is even as high as hundreds of thousands of yuan or even more than one million yuan; the purchase of a civil air defense command vehicle costs more than one million yuan, and the kickbacks are often one or two hundred thousand yuan.

A number of construction industry people in Anhui said that the problem of civil air defense procurement is a monopoly and a price alliance. "Taking the civil air defense protective door as an example, it is not allowed to circulate across provinces, and can only be purchased from a few enterprises in the province. They all maintain a high price, and there is no price adjustment effect in the normal market competition. The person in charge of a large construction company said that due to the high price of some human defense equipment, construction companies undertake the civil air defense engineering part of the project, not only do not make money but may also post money, the industry generally "has a lot of resentment", but dare not speak out.

Recently, Tao Hai, former inspector of the Anhui Provincial People's Air Defense Office and former president of the Provincial Civil Defense Association, was expelled from the party and transferred to the procuratorial organs for examination and prosecution. The Discipline Inspection Commission reported that Tao Hai openly regarded the power entrusted by the party and the people as a tool for seeking private interests, engaged in power and money transactions, and conveyed benefits, was insatiably greedy and morally corrupt, and did not restrain or accept after the Eighteenth National Congress of the Party.

According to reports, the Anhui Provincial Civil Defense Association was once jokingly called the "Old Leaders' Association with Goods," and often went to various parts of the province to sell civil air defense materials and equipment, becoming an important platform for trading power and money and conveying interests.

4 False tenders to open companies

Industry market becomes "own business"

"The son-in-law is engaged in information equipment, the nephew sells civil air defense vehicles, and the cake is divided in a small circle." According to the case-handling personnel, in order to make more money, some air defense officials dispatched relatives and friends to run enterprises and turned the industry market into "their own business."

The former director of the civil air defense office of a certain city in Anhui Province was founded by his cousin, and he himself occupied half of the shares without paying. Using the approval power of the civil air defense project in his hand, he greeted the heads of some real estate enterprises and solicited the drafting and design business of the civil air defense project, and within a few years, he received more than 3 million yuan of "operating profits" through this company.

Li Mou, the former chief of the engineering management and administrative examination and approval section of the Bozhou Municipal Civil Air Defense Office, who was recently sentenced for accepting bribes, embezzlement, and collusion in bidding, accepted bribes of more than 300,000 yuan from two equipment suppliers in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, in the bidding of large-scale projects, and maliciously colluded to write their product parameters into the bidding plan to help them win the bid.

The court found that in the bidding for another large-scale civil air defense project, Li, as the project bidding contact, actually conspired with several engineering contractors to purchase the bidding rights of a company in order to contract the project in partnership. As one of the "bosses behind the scenes", he arranged for several companies to produce bidding bids separately, arbitrarily colluding in bids and bidding until the case occurred.

5 There are three major problems behind corruption

Rectification requirements "bottom to zero"

It has been learned that in the early stage of carrying out the special rectification of corruption in the civil air defense system, the third inspection group of the Anhui Provincial CPC Committee inspected the party group of the provincial civil air defense office and found that there were problems such as insufficient attention to the building of a clean and honest administration, lax policies for the examination and approval of construction and the collection and payment of construction fees for ex-situ construction, inadequate supervision of the market for special equipment, and lax enforcement of financial and economic discipline, as well as problems in bulk procurement and project bidding.

According to the investigation and handling of the case, a number of case-handling personnel believe that the civil air defense system has "collapsed and become corrupt," and there are mainly the following deep-seated problems:

-- Law enforcement is not strict, and there are loopholes in the system. Civil air defense departments in many localities have failed to implement the "Civil Air Defense Law" in place, and the examination and approval are flexible. There is excessive discretion in terms of the standards for collecting ex-situ construction fees.

-- There are few people and small circles, and it is easy to form "closed-door corruption." A municipal people's air defense office often has only a dozen people and two or three business departments, and as long as the members of the leading body are "ideologically unified," it is easy to form a closed operation system in which corruption is secretly born.

- Weak external supervision and internal self-discipline. The public awareness of civil air defense departments is small, social supervision and public opinion supervision are weak, and if the internal responsibility system for improving party style and building a clean and honest government is not properly implemented, the power that lacks supervision is likely to get out of control.

It is reported that in view of the existing problems, Anhui has focused on the administrative examination and approval of civil air defense, the collection of construction fees for relocation, the acceptance of completion, the procurement of protective equipment, procurement and bidding, etc., and adopted seven mechanisms such as political guidance, problem investigation, accountability, and long-term governance to carry out systematic rectification. Among them, Anqing City has established and improved 8 system regulations, and recovered more than 177 million yuan of construction fees for civil air defense projects.

The anhui provincial civil air defense system corruption special governance special topic promotion meeting held earlier proposed that it is necessary to further accelerate the pace of work and carry out special governance to "look back". For the problems identified, the rectification must be completed unconditionally before the end of 2020 to achieve "bottom clearance".

Column Editor-in-Chief: Zhang Wu Text Editor: Dong Siyun Title Image Source: Shangguan Tu Editor Photo Editor: Zi Xi

Source: Author: Economic Reference Daily Chen Xianfa Xu Haitao