Source: Website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission
Lu Lihuan reported on the website of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission and the State Supervision Commission that a few days ago, the State Supervision Commission of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission publicly reported 6 typical cases of corruption and "protective umbrellas" behind "sand tyrants" and "mining tyrants." It has released a strong signal of zero tolerance for corruption and "protective umbrellas" behind "sand tyrants" and "mining tyrants," resolute investigation and punishment, and strict accountability.
Some of the public officials involved in the case who were announced were top leaders of the party and government, and some were in the field of resources in special industries, who should have been the defenders of the interests of the masses, the caretakers of state resources, and the guardians of green waters and green mountains, but they were eager to take advantage of their hearts, knew the law and violated the law, betrayed their duties and missions, and fell into the "umbrella circle" woven by "sand tyrants" and "mining tyrants." What are the typical manifestations of corruption and "protective umbrella" problems behind these "sand tyrants" and "mining tyrants"? How can discipline inspection and supervision organs focus on such problems to accurately crack down and deepen rectification?
The number one leader or the person in charge of the unit in charge abused his power, shielded and connived at the "sand bully" and "mining bully", and even took the initiative to stand on the platform and provide help for him
The "sand tyrants" and "mining tyrants" wantonly encroach on state resources, seriously damage the ecological environment, disrupt the order of the market economy, and harm the vital interests of the masses, but they can blatantly and frenziedly mine and occupy a place for many years without falling, which is related to the fact that some party members and cadres and public officials have taken the initiative to stand for them, provide help, shield and connive, and act as "protective umbrellas."
Some party-member cadres and public officials are willing to be "hunted," collude with "sand tyrants" and "mining tyrants," abuse their powers to support their initiatives, and condone and acquiesce in acts such as blatant and frenzied exploitation.
Gu Xiaoping, a former member of the party group and deputy department-level cadre of the Jiujiang Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Jiangxi Province, accepted bribes and acquiesced in indulging in connivance with Zhu Zhimo, former secretary of the party branch of Zhuhu Village in Ruichang City's Dock Town, and others to wantonly illegally mine sand, coordinated the return of Zhu Zhimo's sand mining vessels and equipment after they were seized by the relevant departments, and supported him in interceding and obfuscating the case, supporting the platform, and helping to contract the project.
Some party members and cadres and public employees are in the field of special industry resources and should have acted impartially, but they have provided support and assistance to "sand tyrants" and "mining tyrants" in the handling of warrants, project contracting, and evasion of investigation and punishment.
Yang Daoqun, former deputy secretary of the party committee of Yunnan Metallurgical Group Corporation and former secretary of the party committee of Yunnan Jinding Zinc Industry Co., Ltd., handed over the company's profitable businesses such as mine divestiture and ore transportation to Yang Pengcheng, former secretary of the party branch and director of the village committee of Jinfeng Village, Jinding Town, Lanping County, to help the mafia-related organizations headed by Yang Pengcheng accumulate huge wealth and continue to grow and develop in a short period of time.
A small number of party members and cadres even used their powers to organize and lead mafia-type organizations, and they themselves became "sand tyrants" and "mining tyrants" and illegally profited.
During his tenure of office, Jia Jingbo, former deputy flag chief of Urat Banner and former director of the Public Security Bureau in Bayannaoer City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, instructed members of the public security bureau team and the people's police to provide assistance for their monopoly operation of sand and gravel mines, and through collusion in bidding, forced trading, and other means, controlled all four sand and gravel mines in the banner, maliciously inflated prices, and illegally profited more than 6 million yuan in only half a year.
Judging from the positions of personnel who violate discipline and law, in many cases, a top official or the person in charge of a competent unit acts as a protective umbrella for "sand hegemons" and "mining tyrants," and a phenomenon of a criminal syndicate and evil case involving multiple party members and cadres or public officials who violate discipline and the law is presented.
Fu Weiguo, former member of the party group and vice mayor of the Danyang Municipal Government of Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province, when he was the director and vice mayor of the Danyang Municipal Transportation Bureau, knew that Guan Jianjun was a person involved in criminal syndicates and evil forces, but still accepted bribes to help him contract the earth and stone business and return the resource deposit in advance in violation of the law. Ni Jun, former head of the Geology and Mineral Management Department of the Zhenjiang Municipal Natural Resources and Planning Bureau, accepted banquets and gifts on many occasions to provide care for Guan Jianjun in the acceptance of the abandoned mine remediation project, knowing that it was illegal mining, but still conniving at its illegal activities. Zhou Dongming, a former member of the Party Group of the Danyang Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, when he was a member of the Standing Committee of the Danyang Municipal CPC Committee and secretary of the Danbei Town Cpc Committee, knew that Guan Jianjun was involved in criminal syndicates and evil, and still nominated and recommended him to serve as a member of the Danyang Municipal CPPCC Committee.
In terms of time span, the violations of discipline and law by party members and cadres and public employees involved in the case were both before the Eighteenth National Congress, after the Eighteenth National Congress, and even after the Nineteenth National Congress, showing the characteristics of coexisting with the stock and increment of corruption. For example, Jia Jingbo's disciplinary violations and violations of the law spanned from 1998 to 2018, causing a very bad impact.
In addition, combing through the typical cases of investigation and handling, the corruption behind the "sand bully" and "mining bully" and the "protective umbrella" problem also reflect the characteristics of the integration of wind and corruption. For example, Pang Xueqiang, former member of the Standing Committee of the Hepu County CPC Committee and secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee of Beihai City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, repeatedly accepted banquets and accepted bribes from Zheng Qi's mafia-related organizations during his tenure as a member of the Standing Committee of the Hepu County CPC Committee and secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee, conniving at his illegal activities.
For the sake of power, money, fame and fortune, they have lost their ideals and convictions, and are willing to be "hunted" as a protective umbrella, resulting in the blatant destruction of the ecological environment by "sand tyrants" and "mining tyrants."
Wu Tiecheng, former deputy director of the Department of Justice of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, accepted bribes from Jia Jingbo while serving as vice mayor of Bayannaoer City and director of the Public Security Bureau to help him promote him to the posts of political commissar and director of the Public Security Bureau; Zhao Zhonghai, former head of the Water Administration Supervision Brigade of the Xianju County Water Conservancy Bureau, accepted bribes to help the mafia-related organizations headed by Zhang Yiping in operating sand farms and evading punishment. Combing through the cases found that the "protective umbrella" behind the "sand bully" and "mining bully" was willing to be "hunted", and the reason was for power, money, fame and profit.
Some "sand tyrants" and "mining tyrants" have long been blatantly and frenziedly mining, which is related to the lack of supervision and dereliction of duty by some regulatory departments. For example, from 2009 to 2018, the mafia-related organizations headed by Zhang Yiping used extortion threats and forced annexation to illegally monopolize the sand and gravel mining of Yong'an Creek in Xianju County, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province for a long time, and illegally excavated and dug indiscriminately, resulting in uneven riverbeds, poor water flow, and the formation of undercurrent whirlpools in deep pits left behind by sand mining, and drowning accidents occurred many times, seriously endangering the safety of people's lives and property. As a regulatory department, the Xianju County Water Conservancy Bureau has a serious lack of supervision responsibilities, and there are laws that are not followed, law enforcement is not strict, illegal is not prosecuted, and even more than 100 illegal sand mining cases seized over the years are not punished, resulting in rampant illegal sand mining activities in the jurisdiction.
Formalistic bureaucratic problems such as failure to take responsibility and inaction are also one of the reasons why the "sand hegemony" and "mining hegemony" have been ineffective for a long time. For example, in 2014, after the completion of the xia sai lake, the hunan provincial party committee and the provincial government repeatedly ordered and demanded demolition, while the relevant provincial functional departments, local party committees and governments did not take the responsibility of inaction, and arbitrarily lowered the demolition standards, resulting in the delay in the demolition of the low fence.
Discipline inspection and supervision organs have made the corruption and protective umbrella behind the "sand tyrants" and "mining tyrants" the focus of their work of normalizing "cracking down on umbrellas and breaking nets," and have seriously investigated and dealt with them and cracked down on them with precision
This year is the first year of the normalization and institutionalization of the anti-gang crime eradication. In June, the organs of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission issued the "Implementation Opinions on the Normalization of Discipline Inspection and Supervision Organs' Work on Punishing Mafia-related and Vicious Corruption and the "Protective Umbrella"," requiring the leading bodies of discipline inspection commissions and supervisory commissions at all levels to strengthen organizational leadership, integrate "breaking the umbrella and breaking the net" into the overall situation of party style and clean government construction and anti-corruption work, and grasp to the end as the key point of rectifying corruption and unhealthy tendencies around the masses.
In June 2021, the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection issued the Implementation Opinions on the Normalization of Discipline Inspection and Supervision Organs in Punishing Mafia-related And Vicious Corruption and the "Protective Umbrella" Work. (Source: Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, State Supervision Commission website)
On July 28, the country's first anti-gang crime normalization and rectification promotion meeting of the four major industry fields was held. In accordance with the arrangements of the national leading group for the special struggle against organized crime and evil forces, the discipline inspection and supervision organs are responsible for punishing the problems of public employees involved in criminal syndicates and evil forces, violating discipline and law in the four major industries of information networks, natural resources, transportation, and engineering construction, especially the corruption behind the "sand tyrants" and "mining tyrants" and the "protective umbrella."
Discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels have made severe punishments for colluding with the interests of "sand tyrants" and "mining tyrants," supporting their violent crimes, grabbing resources, and other platforms, providing shelter, and not taking responsibility for inaction, ineffective supervision, and other issues as the focus of this year's normalization of "breaking the umbrella and breaking the net."
Focus on the "umbrella network" precision attack, discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels to establish information sharing mechanisms, regularly communicate with the competent departments of natural resources, water conservancy, ecological environment, transportation and other industries, and timely grasp the situation of the problem. With regard to newly filed and investigated cases filed and investigated by public security organs, persist in working in the same direction as the political and legal organs, use working mechanisms such as "double special classes to handle cases," and simultaneously follow up and verify the corruption and "protective umbrella" problems behind the "sand bully" and "mining bully." With regard to the cases of "sand tyrants" and "mining tyrants" investigated and handled since the beginning of the special struggle, those who have "black and no umbrellas" and have not been thoroughly investigated and thoroughly investigated, organize retrospective investigations to ensure that they are thoroughly penetrated.
For typical problems investigated and handled, the discipline inspection and supervision organs have publicly reported and exposed them, forming a powerful deterrent. "Cai Yanhui, former deputy director of the Pinghe County Public Security Bureau in Zhangzhou City, accepted bribes from Cai Qiujin while serving as the head of the criminal investigation brigade and deputy director of the county public security bureau, knowing that Cai Qiujin and others were illegally mining river sand and suspected of illegal mining, and deliberately shielded them from prosecution and helped evade punishment..." On October 19, the Fujian Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision publicly reported three cases of party members and cadres acting as "protective umbrellas" for criminal syndicates and evil forces, including 2 cases involving the problems of "sha ba" and "mining tyrants."
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission have asked the discipline inspection commissions and supervisory commissions of all localities to consolidate the main responsibilities of local party committees and governments and the supervision responsibilities of industry departments, and promptly remind and interview those who are ineffective in promoting the rectification work, and pursue responsibility and accountability for serious circumstances. Focus on the implementation of responsibilities, rectification of problems, and improvement of mechanisms to strengthen supervision and inspection, to prevent rectification work from going through the motions and discounting.
Adhere to the current reform and long-term establishment, analyze the causes on a case-by-case basis, deeply find regulatory loopholes and institutional and institutional obstacles, and promote the improvement of the system and the restoration of natural ecology
"Jia Jingbo's bitter repentance of violating discipline and the law gives us a warning reminder, so that we know reverence, guard against fear, keep the bottom line, and always tighten the strings of honesty and self-discipline." Not long ago, after the Bayannaoer Municipal Discipline Inspection Commission Supervision Commission used the Jia Jingbo case as a mirror to study and produced a warning education film entitled "The Black and the Evil of a Public Security Bureau Chief," a cadre and policeman of the Former Banner Public Security Bureau of Urat in the city said with deep feeling.
In order to do a solid job in investigating and handling the "second half of the article," the Bayannaoer Municipal Discipline Inspection Commission Supervision Commission put forward supervision suggestions on Jia Jingbo's case of violating discipline and law, and demanded that the municipal public security bureau strictly implement the system of democratic centralism in major matters and case investigation and handling, and promptly appoint 7 discipline inspection and supervision team leaders to serve in different places in the public security bureaus of various flag counties and districts to increase the intensity of supervision.
"The problems of corruption and 'protective umbrellas' behind the 'sand tyrants' and 'mining tyrants' have occurred, and the lack of relevant systems cannot be ignored, and discipline inspection and supervision organs should start from urging relevant functional departments to improve the system to promote the solution of the problem." Song Wei, director of the Integrity Research Center of the University of Science and Technology Beijing, suggested.
The Discipline Inspection Commission of Kaihua County, Zhejiang Province, carried out joint supervision of the office and group, went deep into the frontline of sand mining and mining, and dug deep into the clues of corruption and "protective umbrella" problems behind "sand hegemony" and "mining bully" through on-site understanding, overt inspection and secret visits, and other means. The picture shows that on November 4, the members of the inspection team learned about the relevant situation in a sand and gravel enterprise. Photo by Yu Qingqing
After the Xianju County Water Conservancy Bureau seriously derelicted its duties and dereliction of duty in the supervision of river sand mining, the Discipline Inspection Commission supervision committee of the county supervision committee urged the county water conservancy bureau to hold a special democratic life meeting to deeply analyze the causes of the case and learn lessons. At the same time, a supervision recommendation was formulated and issued, requiring the bureau to learn from the case and promote reform by the case.
Adhering to the integration of immediate reform and long-term standing, the Zhenjiang Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection supervision and supervision has acted as a "protective umbrella" for Fu Weiguo and others to act as a "protective umbrella" for the mafia-related organizations headed by Guan Jianjun, exposing the prominent problems of illegal mining in the mining field, and urging functional departments to incorporate mine governance projects into the government investment project supervision system in the process of implementing mine governance projects, forming multi-departmental and whole-process supervision.
In order to restore the damaged ecological environment in a timely manner, the Hunan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision took the lead in carrying out the special action of "Dongting Qingbo" around the environmental pollution problems reflected in the Xia Shun'an case, and set up 4 supervision and inspection teams to supervise and inspect the surrounding Dongting Lake. At the same time, it took the lead in establishing a joint meeting system for the special action of "Dongting Qingbo", together with the Provincial Development and Reform Commission, the Department of Ecology and Environment and other departments, the discipline inspection commissions of Changsha, Yueyang, Changde and Yiyang and the relevant discipline inspection and supervision teams stationed in Changsha, Yueyang, Changde and Yiyang to inspect the site and supervise and solve problems on the spot. Today's Xia Sai Lake has restored the original scenery of blue waves and grass and trees.