On November 28, the China Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision News reported a case of petty official corruption: a stock-level cadre in Ganggang Town, Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province committed more than 500 crimes in 11 years, accumulatively falsely claiming more than 35 million yuan of special funds for civil affairs poverty alleviation.
Account Book of Special Fund for Civil Affairs and Poverty Alleviation in Gangkou Town, Zhongshan City
Zhongshan Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision found that: from January 2007 to November 2017, when Chen Zhixiang was the head of the Civil Affairs Unit of the Social Affairs Bureau of Ganggang Township, he made money from the 14 special funds he handled without exception.Pen.
In the past 11 years, Chen Zhixiang committed 529 crimes, the largest one was about 700,000 yuan, the least one was only 20 yuan, and the total amount of false claims for poverty alleviation special funds was 35.87 million yuan.As the chief of the Civil Affairs Unit, Chen Zhixiang is in charge of the management and distribution of special funds for poverty alleviation in the town, although his rank is only at the stock level.
According to statistics, in 2016 alone, the town issued about 12.17 million yuan of special funds for civil affairs poverty alleviation, and Chen Zhixiang defrauded him of more than 7.26 million yuan, accounting for nearly 60% of the total amount of poverty alleviation funds actually distributed by the town that year.
Chen Zhixiang's modus operandi was full of loopholes, yet he escaped layers of approval and review, even he himself could not believe it.
According to Xinhua News Agency, many obvious traces of alteration can be seen on the bill.For example, the correction fluid changed the received amount from 18623 to 623; the paper and font of the fake bills Chen Zhixiang bought from the Internet were different from those of the bank bills...
At first, I didn't expect to get the money successfully. My modus operandi was very rough, and I don't know why no one found out.Chen Zhixiang said.
According to Peng Lixin, the leader of the investigation team of the case, Chen Zhixiang used three main methods of committing the crime:
One is to pretend to be a dead person to increase the number of people.When counting the list of persons who have issued poverty alleviation funds, fictitious names or falsely used the names of deceased five-guarantee households, low-income households, or special care recipients to inflate the amount of funds distributed.
The second is stealing the sky for another day and enriching one's own pockets.Manipulating the batch distribution of electronic data submitted to the bank, fabricating and fraudulently using other people's names, the corresponding receivable accounts are all their own bank accounts, and let the inflated poverty alleviation funds fall into their own pockets.
The third is to alter bills and whitewash evidence.After the funds were released, Chen Zhixiang would take the initiative to collect the reconciliation list issued by the bank for the financial staff, alter or forge and destroy the list, and then hand over the laundered documents to the financial staff for entry to cover up the crime.
According to the requirements of the system, after the handler submits the application for funds, the director of the township social affairs bureau and finance branch, the town party committee member in charge of civil affairs and financial work, the town mayor, and the town party committee secretary shall review and sign for confirmation step by step;and the accounts will be issued after checking one by one; the town finance sub-bureau will reconcile and verify the detailed list actually issued by the bank.
Xinhua News Agency reported that in actual operation, everyone thought that someone had checked it before, and signed hastily.The government department thinks that the bank has verified it, and there will be no mistakes; the bank believes that the information provided by the government department will not be wrong, and does not check whether the name and account are consistent, and the review is a mere formality.Peng Lixin said.
After the case of Chen Zhixiang, 22 party and government cadres and staff, including the secretary of the town party committee at the time, were held accountable for failing to fulfill their responsibilities. Wu Shaoqiong, the former director of the Social Affairs Bureau of Port Township, was transferred to the procuratorate on suspicion of dereliction of duty.
Political writing/Xu Tengfei, intern Li Jingtong, proofreading, Guo Liqin
