Legal Evening News middot; Opinion News (Reporter Zhang Ying) Under the pressure of anti-corruption, it is not uncommon for cadres to go to the dock.However, last month, the People's Court of Cao County, Shandong Province issued a first-instance verdict against the Dongming County Environmental Protection Bureau and Zhang Changqing, the head of the unit.

Zhang Changqing was sentenced to six years in prison and fined RMB 500,000 for corruption, accepting bribes, embezzling public funds, and accepting bribes at work.Dongming County Environmental Protection Bureau was sentenced to a fine of RMB 200,000 for accepting bribes.

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The top leader of the Environmental Protection Bureau extorted 570,000 yuan in bribes from chemical companies

The Cao County People's Procuratorate accused Dongming County Environmental Protection Bureau of accepting bribes, and Zhang Changqing committed corruption, bribery, embezzlement of public funds, and accepting bribes.On March 29 this year, the Cao County People's Court made a first-instance judgment on the case.

The verdict shows that Zhang Changqing has embezzled 443,872.29 yuan of public funds, accepted bribes totaling 699,900 yuan, embezzled 300,000 yuan of public funds (returned later), and Dongming County Environmental Protection Bureau and Zhang Changqing’s units received a total of 574,884 yuan in bribes.

In October 2010, Zhang Changqing, then director of the Environmental Protection Bureau of Dongming County, demanded 467,884 yuan in cash from Shandong Yuhuang Chemical Group on the grounds that the bureau was short of funds.According to Wei Mou, deputy director of the Dongming County Environmental Protection Bureau, in November 2010, Zhang Changqing told him that some office expenses such as business trips, study tours, and coordination could not be resolved due to the shortage of funds, and he wanted to reimburse them through Shandong Yuhuang Chemical Group.Shortly thereafter, the group transferred more than 460,000 yuan.

In January 2017, Zhang Changqing once again asked for funds on the grounds of shortage of funds. This time, he asked for bribes from another local chemical group—Hongye Chemicals.Yang, an accountant of the Dongming Environmental Protection Bureau, said that in February 2017, Zhang Changqing gave him some invoices and asked himself to collect more than 100,000 yuan invoices to be reimbursed by Shandong Hongye Chemical Group.Yang found Hongye Chemical with the invoice, and the latter handed him 107,000 yuan in cash.

Embezzlement in the form of reimbursement to pay breakup fees

One month after Zhang Changqing asked Hongye Chemical for bribes, he was interviewed by the Commission for Discipline Inspection and then put on file for investigation.According to public information, Zhang Changqing, born on September 29, 1962, is a native of Dongming County.It is reported that the Second Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Office of the Heze Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection found clues about Zhang Changqing's violations of laws and disciplines, and brought him to the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection on March 20, 2017, and took two regulatory measures against him on the same day.

It is reported that Zhang Changqing embezzled a total of 443,800 yuan of public funds, part of which came from Yuhuang Chemical and Hongye Chemical mentioned above.In January 2011, Zhang Changqing arranged for Wei and Yang to add more than 30,000 yuan of public funds and his own 169,000 yuan to make up 200,000 yuan, and opened a bank card.Later, Zhang Changqing gave the bank card with a memory of 200,000 yuan to his lover Zhang as a breakup fee.

In March 2011, Zhang Changqing asked Yang, the person in charge of Hongye Chemical, to reimburse 499,900 yuan for office expenses, but the office expenses did not enter the account of the Dongming County Environmental Protection Bureau.Zhang Changqing used 100,000 yuan for personal consumption, 200,000 yuan for mahogany furniture, and another 160,000 yuan for his son to buy a car.

In addition, Zhang Changqing's usual trick is to embezzle in the form of invoice reimbursement.According to Yang's confirmation, the vouchers Zhang Changqing used to offset the reimbursement included 15,000 yuan for Chinese food, 5,400 yuan for gas, and 7,820 yuan for office expenses during the three months from September to December 2011.

According to the cash flow account and reimbursement voucher provided by Yuhuang Chemical, the invoices reimbursed by the company for the Environmental Protection Bureau of Dongming County include: 38,300 yuan in official expenses and inspection fees issued by Guangxi Kanghui Travel Agency, 88,200 yuan in handicrafts purchased in Beijing,Shandong Ginza consumer card 40,000 yuan, Heze Ginza 50,000 yuan, tobacco and alcohol consumption 16,246 yuan, clothes 3,350 yuan, pre-stored phone bills 9,998 yuan, etc.

Buy other people's student status and help my son eat 200,000 yuan.

In addition, when Zhang Changqing served as the director of the Environmental Protection Bureau, he took advantage of his position to arrange his second son, Mr. Zhang, into his unit.From 2008 to the incident, during the 9 years, Zhang ate a total of 205,967 yuan.What is even more surprising is that Zhang Changqing also purchased other people's student status for his second son, forging his identity and working relationship.

It is reported that in 2008, Zhang Changqing bought the junior college status of Liu, a student of Heze Teachers College, for his second son, Zhang, and handled the working relationship of Chengwu Environmental Protection Bureau for his son through Ma, the director of Chengwu County Environmental Protection Bureau.Later, Zhang was transferred to the Dongming County Environmental Protection Bureau, and Zhang became a full-staff employee under Liu's name.

Zhang Changqing’s second son, Zhang, testified that at the end of 2008, he had no job, so Zhang Changqing gave him a bank card with the account name Liu, and he has been using this bank card to receive wages from Dongming Environmental Protection Bureau since then, but he has never been employed.Not working here.During this period, Zhang Changqing also arranged for relevant staff not to check attendance on Liu, and wrote the annual assessment form and salary approval form for him on his behalf.