After Fu Lin, a professor at Tsinghua University, was investigated for corruption and embezzlement of public funds for two and a half years, the prosecution decided to withdraw the case and obtained the court's permission.On September 21, Caixin reporter learned the news from Fu Lin's family, and Fu Lin's defense lawyer also confirmed the matter.
According to the criminal ruling of the Beijing Haidian District Court, Fu Lin was criminally detained on March 17, 2016 and arrested on April 1 of the same year.On May 27, 2017, the Haidian District Procuratorate filed a public prosecution with the Haidian District Court.On February 14, 2018, Fu Lin was released on bail pending trial.During the proceedings, the Haidian District Procuratorate decided to withdraw the prosecution against the defendant Fu Lin on September 20, 2018.The Haidian Court held that the request of the Haidian District Procuratorate to withdraw the prosecution was reviewed and complied with the legal requirements and should be granted.
Fu Lin's wife, Qu Yan, told Caixin that after returning home on February 14, 2018, Fu Lin quickly devoted herself to scientific research and has been taking care of her body.Because of being detained for nearly two years, my body has not recovered to its previous state.As to whether to apply for state compensation after the prosecution withdrew the case, Qu Yan said that it will be discussed later.
Fu Lin is a professor at the School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, and has been engaged in research on clean heating.The central heating technology based on absorption heat exchange developed by him can ensure that the heating capacity can be increased by 50% without increasing the amount of coal burned;Heating area increased by 50%.On March 17, 2016, Fu Lin was investigated by the Beijing Haidian District Procuratorate on suspicion of corruption and was criminally detained on the same day.On May 19, 2017, the prosecutor filed a public prosecution with the Haidian District Court, accusing Fu Lin of embezzling scientific research funds and misappropriating public funds.During Fu Lin’s detention, his employment contract with Tsinghua University expired. Tsinghua University signed an employment contract extension agreement with Fu Lin twice at the end of 2016 and January 2018.
In addition, Fu Lin’s family and his defense lawyers submitted applications for release on bail on June 18, 2017, June 30, 2017, December 15, 2017, and January 12, 2018.Fu Lin was released on bail on February 14, 2018 (the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month) and returned home.
Fu Lin's doctoral student Wu Yanting once said that after Fu Lin was released on bail pending trial, he met seven or eight students near Tsinghua University at noon on February 22, the seventh day of the first lunar month.Although Fu Lin lost some weight physically, he was in a very good mental state during the four-hour meeting.After briefly understanding everyone's living conditions, Fu Lin quickly shifted the topic to the team's engineering projects and scientific research.
Due to unreasonable systems such as the use of scientific research funds, the transformation of scientific research results, and the management of scientific research infrastructure projects, many scientific research workers have been involved in criminal cases in recent years.Caixin previously reported that on October 18, 2013, Chu Jian, the former vice president of Zhejiang University, was investigated. On January 16, 2017, the Huzhou Intermediate Court of Zhejiang Province found Chu Jian guilty of corruption and deliberately destroying accounting documents and accounting books.He was sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of three years and three months for reporting the actual crime, and Chu Jian was released from prison two days after the sentence was pronounced.
In June 2014, Li Ning, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a professor at China Agricultural University, was taken away for investigation on suspicion of embezzlement of scientific research funds.In August 2015, after the Li Ning case was held in the Intermediate Court of Songyuan City, Jilin Province, there has been no further movement.The Li Ning case has been deadlocked for nearly four years, and the court neither made a judgment nor did the procuratorate withdraw the case and release him. This is obviously abnormal.Li Ning's defense lawyer told Caixin reporter.
In June 2014, Wang Zhongming (at the level of the main hall), then Secretary of the Party Committee of the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, was taken away for investigation.Previously, Wang Zhongming was reported under his real name for refusing to take care of a contractor during the bidding process.On June 16, 2016, the Shenhe District Court of Shenyang City found Wang Zhongming in the first instance for accepting 800,000 yuan in bribes and sentenced him to seven years in prison.Wang Zhongming refused to accept and lodged an appeal.Afterwards, the Shenyang Intermediate People's Court revoked the original judgment and remanded the case for retrial on the grounds that the facts were unclear and the evidence was insufficient.On September 17, 2018, the Shenhe District Court acquitted Wang Zhongming in a retrial.
In October 2015, Chen Zheyu, a professor at Shandong University and a Changjiang scholar, was investigated for embezzling scientific research funds.After the first and second trials of the case, on January 26, 2018, Chen Zheyu was finally sentenced to two years and six months in prison and fined 200,000 yuan.On April 28, 2018, Chen Zheyu was released from prison after serving his sentence.■
