The shock caused by the Welfare Lottery corruption case of the Ministry of Civil Affairs continued. A deputy department official was investigated for old accounts after being transferred from the Welfare Lottery system for nearly five years.
According to the news from the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Committee on October 31, the former deputy director of the China Welfare Lottery Issuance Management Center (hereinafter referred to as the Welfare Lottery Center), the former chairman of Beijing Zhongcai Online Technology Co., Ltd., and the current deputy director of the China Children Welfare and Adoption CenterFeng Lizhi is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law in the field of lottery, and is currently undergoing disciplinary review and supervisory investigation.
The 59-year-old Feng Lizhi is from Hulan, Heilongjiang. He had worked in the welfare lottery system of the Ministry of Civil Affairs for many years, as the assistant to the director of the Welfare Lottery Center and the director of the second marketing department.The Welfare Lottery Center is a department-level institution directly under the Ministry of Civil Affairs. It is responsible for formulating development plans for national welfare lottery distribution and sales, establishing a national welfare lottery distribution and sales system, organizing research and development of lottery varieties, and managing the national lottery sales system.
In September 2008, Feng Lizhi was promoted to the deputy director of the Welfare Lottery Center; since April 2010, he has also served as the chairman of Beijing Zhongcai Online Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Zhongcai Online).Zhongfu Online is the actual operator of Zhongfu Online, one of the important types of welfare lottery tickets, of which the Welfare Lottery Center holds 40% of the shares.
After November 2013, Feng Lizhi was transferred from the welfare lottery system and served as the deputy director of the China Children's Welfare and Adoption Center until this time.
Feng Lizhi is the latest person to fall into the Ministry of Civil Affairs' system nest case following the investigation of Wang Suying, the former director of the Welfare Lottery Center in September 2018.Since 2016, the corruption case of the Ministry of Civil Affairs has continued to fluctuate.Li Liguo, the former Minister of Civil Affairs, Dou Yupei, the former Vice Minister, Qu Shuhui, the former head of the discipline inspection team of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection at the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Chen Chuanshu, a former member of the party group, and other high-ranking officials were involved in the case.Chen Chuanshu, Bao Xuequan and Wang Suying, the three directors of the Welfare Lottery Center, were successively investigated.In addition, Wang Yunge, former deputy director of the Welfare Lottery Center and former chairman of Beijing Zhongcai Online Technology Co., Ltd., was also investigated in February 2017.
The corruption problem of the welfare lottery system has been fermented since 2015 due to audit findings.In June 2015, the National Audit Office issued the No. 4 Announcement, stating that the lottery funds in 18 provinces from 2012 to 2014 totaled 65.8 billion yuan in spot checks, and the audit found false reports, misappropriation, illegal procurement, and illegal purchase and construction of buildings and halls.The amount of violations of laws and regulations such as grants and subsidies amounted to 16.9 billion yuan, accounting for 25.7% of the total funds for spot checks.Among them, lottery funds purchased in violation of regulations and off-book accounting amounted to 9 billion yuan, the largest scale.
In February 2016, the Ninth Inspection Team of the Central Committee conducted special inspections on the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the National Office on Aging.The inspection team found that the Ministry of Civil Affairs has made public power departmentalized and profited, using its power in charge of social organizations to seek jobs for cadres and profit, and there are also problems in the management of welfare lottery issuance.Since then, the corruption of the welfare lottery system has gradually surfaced.He Wen, the former general manager of Lottery Online, and his wife were first taken away for investigation.
Li Liguo, then minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, has disappeared from public view since October 2016. As a member of the Central Committee at the time, he even missed the Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee held that month.Until January 2017, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection confirmed that Li Liguo, former Minister of Civil Affairs, and Dou Yupei, former Vice Minister, were under investigation.
The corruption case of the welfare lottery system was officially uncovered.In February 2017, Li Liguo and Dou Yupei were dealt with by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection due to serious dereliction of duty and systemic corruption in the unit under their jurisdiction.Dou Yupei was given a serious warning and early retirement.
Since then, many officials in the Ministry of Civil Affairs system have been investigated.In April 2017, Chen Chuanshu, former member of the party group of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and former president of the China Association for the Aged, was demoted to the bureau level.In June 2017, Qu Shuhui, who was a member of the party group of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the head of the discipline inspection team of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in the Ministry of Civil Affairs, was also held accountable and demoted to the level of director.In August 2017, Bao Xuequan, the former director of the Welfare Lottery Center of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and Wang Yunge, the former deputy director, were expelled from the party and public office due to serious violations of discipline.
Chen Chuanshu has successively worked in the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, the China-Japan Youth Exchange Center, the Agency Service Center of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Department of Finance and Agency Affairs, and the Social Welfare Center.President (deputy ministerial level), later served as a member of the party group of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the president of the China Association for the Elderly.When Chen Chuanshu was demoted, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection reported that during his tenure as the main person in charge of a subordinate unit of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, he had seriously neglected his duties and neglected his duties, and his supervision and management were ineffective, and he was mainly responsible for the occurrence of related problems.
Caixin reporter learned that when Chen Chuanshu was the director of the Welfare Lottery Center, Bao Xuequan was always his deputy.After Chen Chuanshu left the Welfare Lottery Center, Bao Xuequan took over as the leader.From October 2004 to November 2012, Bao Xuequan served as the deputy director and director of the Welfare Lottery Center for eight years.In November 2012, Bao Xuequan left the Welfare Lottery Center and became a member of the party group and deputy director of the Office of the National Committee on Aging; after August 2015, he served as an inspector of the Bureau of Retired Cadres of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Bao Xuequan was widely concerned by public opinion because of the pornographic news.At the end of December 2012, news broke out on the Internet that Bao Xuequan, a department-level cadre of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, had a three-month power-sex transaction with seven women.The whistleblower claimed to be a man who was cuckolded by his girlfriend, and posted a large number of screenshots of explicit text messages between Bao Xuequan and different women.The whistleblower said that the daughter-in-law of Bao Xuequan's old boss was among the seven women who maintained an improper relationship with Bao Xuequan.Many staff members of the Ministry of Civil Affairs said that the pornographic news has caused a lot of trouble in the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and no one knows about it.
People familiar with the matter told Caixin reporter that Wang Suying used to be a subordinate of Dou Yupei. When Dou Yupei was the director of the Department of Social Welfare and Social Affairs of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Wang Suying was a director under him, and the two had a close relationship.
Founded in July 2002, China Lottery Online is the actual operator of China Fortune Online, one of the important types of welfare lottery tickets, and He Wen is the actual controller of China Lottery Online.According to Caixin data, the registered capital of Zhongcai Online is 100 million yuan. The current shareholders are Fucai Center, Beijing Yindu Xintiandi Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Yindu Xintiandi) and Beijing Huayun Zhongxing Digital Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Huayun Zhongxing)).Among them, the Welfare Lottery Center invested 40 million yuan, holding 40% of the equity, and is the major shareholder of the company in name.Yindu Xintiandi and Huayun Zhongxing invested 33 million yuan and 27 million yuan.But in fact, behind the lottery online shareholders Yindu Xintiandi and Huayun Zhongxing, the actual controllers are He Wen and his wife.Through layers of penetration, He Wen and his wife Wu Jingjing hold at least 54.54% of the shares of China Lottery Online, and they are the actual major shareholders of China Lottery Online, while the Welfare Lottery Center actually only holds 40% of the shares.
According to the Welfare Lottery sharing model, the sales of the game Lianhuan Dianbao under Zhongfu Online are calculated according to 65%, 20% and 15% of the sales, bonuses, lottery public welfare funds and lottery distribution fees (the proportion of different games is different, and the statement is slightly different).However, the Caixin reporter learned that among them, the revenue obtained by Zhongcai Online accounted for 5% of the sales.Calculated on the basis of 5%, from 2003 to 2015, the cumulative online revenue of Lottery reached 8.977 billion yuan.
According to the report of the Economic Information Daily, China Lottery Online’s annual payment to suppliers accounts for 1.7% of total sales, and China Lottery Online retains 3.3% (approximately 5.925 billion yuan) each year.Based on He Wen’s at least 54.54% stake in China Lottery Online, the cumulative income of He Wen and his associates over the past 12 years has reached approximately 3.2 billion yuan.
On the other hand, He Wen was also accused of violating lottery management regulations and had problems with the procurement of lottery sales terminals.According to public information, on June 29, 2005, Tianyi Electronics signed an agreement with Zhongcai Online, and Tianyi Company provided Zhongcai Online with instant video lottery terminals in an exclusive manner.Among them, the lottery terminal is provided by Tianyi Electronics, and Zhongcai Online pays 1.6% of Zhongfu Online's revenue as a price, and the contract period is 10 years. According to a report in 2015 by the Economic Information Daily, the transaction circumvented the bidding process and was completed under the manipulation of He Wen, general manager of Zhongcai Online.Caixin reporter learned that He Wen's case is currently in the judicial process.
