The bribery case of Meng Wei, former vice chairman of the National People's Congress's Environment and Resources Protection Committee and former director of the Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences, has recently progressed.On November 29, 2018, the Supreme People's Procuratorate announced through its official website that the case had been prosecuted by the Xuzhou City Procuratorate to the Xuzhou City Intermediate Court after being designated by the Supreme People's Procuratorate.
The procuratorate accused: From 2003 to 2017, Meng Wei took advantage of his position as the vice chairman of the National People's Congress Environmental Resources Committee and the president of the Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences, as well as the convenient conditions of his power and status, to pass the positions of other state staffActs on the Internet, seeking benefits for relevant units and individuals in participating in national scientific research projects, undertaking environmental governance projects, company operations, etc., illegally accepting other people's property, the amount is particularly huge, and should be investigated for criminal responsibility for the crime of accepting bribes according to law.
Meng Wei is a representative of the 11th and 12th National People's Congress. In March 2013, he was elected as the vice chairman of the Environmental and Resource Protection Committee of the 12th National People's Congress.On May 24 of that year, Meng Wei once served as one of the keynote speakers, explaining to the sixth collective study of the 18th Central Political Bureau to vigorously promote the construction of ecological civilization.On October 21, 2016, the Ministry of Environmental Protection held a meeting to announce the adjustment of cadres of the Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences. Li Haisheng was appointed as the president and deputy secretary of the party committee of the Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences, and Meng Wei, who turned 60 last year, was removed from the positions of president and deputy secretary of the party committee.Since then, Meng Wei is still a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences.
On the afternoon of November 10, 2017, the website of the Ministry of Supervision of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection reported that Meng Wei was suspected of serious violations of discipline and was undergoing organizational review.On August 26, 2018, the China Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision News published a report titled "Why Pollution Control Persons Become Pollution Sources". The article revealed that from 2001 to 2016, Meng Wei served as the president of the Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences for 15 years.For a long time, the hazardous waste treatment company that helped the private owner passed the acceptance inspection when the hardware equipment did not meet the standards;
Taking the national science and technology major special project of water pollution control and treatment (hereinafter referred to as the water special project) in exchange for economic benefits and operating personal network; ignoring discipline and rules, and building a small circle in the Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences.The article claims that Meng Wei charges money for helping companies, promoting cadres, assigning scientific research projects, Zhang Luo experts charging companies platforms, and even collecting money for local investigation and research as a representative of the National People's Congress
According to the official resume, the 62-year-old Meng Wei is from Qingdao, Shandong Province. He was admitted to Qingdao Ocean College, the predecessor of Ocean University of China, in 1977. After graduating in 1982, he was assigned to the Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences, where he worked for 34 years until his retirement.He has successively served as assistant engineer, deputy director, director, director and vice president of the Science and Technology Division of the Scientific Research Division of the Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences.From 2001, Meng Wei served as the president of the Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences for 15 years until October 2016.During December 2009, Meng Wei was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
People familiar with the matter told Caixin reporters that Meng Wei, as the president of the Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences, has repeatedly arranged for people to obtain financial funds through false contracts.The audit found that the financial management of the Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences was chaotic, and fraudulent invoices were used to obtain scientific research funds.Meng Wei once served as the chief engineer of water special technology, and many units undertaking national water special projects have transferred benefits to Meng Wei in various ways.
An article in the China Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision News revealed that some private enterprise bosses met Meng Wei by car, greeted each other, held luxurious banquets, arranged jobs for their relatives and friends, and hired nannies for their parents.Among the many bosses serving Meng Wei, Qingdao businessman Han Moumou is a typical one.Since he and Meng Wei are fellow villagers, starting with boxes of seafood and vegetables from his hometown and red envelopes during the New Year and festivals, Han Moumou gradually narrowed the distance with Meng Wei.
It was with the help of Meng Wei who spared no effort that Han's company grew wildly across the country. In just a few years, it developed from a small workshop-like enterprise engaged in waste recycling to a group company with more than 50 subsidiaries.
In 2014, Meng Wei, as the leader of the expert group, attended a certain project acceptance meeting. Under his specific arrangement and direct promotion, the industrial park built by Han XX company successfully passed the acceptance inspection even though the hardware equipment did not meet the standards, and became a national ecological park.Industrial demonstration park.The park has piled up tens of thousands of tons of hazardous waste on the muddy ground that has not undergone technical treatment. Some of the hazardous waste piled up in the open air has been damaged in packaging.A rash of unknown cause.Severe environmental pollution triggered mass incidents in which local people besieged the gate of the park.
After investigation, the East China Supervision Center of the former Ministry of Environmental Protection suggested revoking the relevant qualifications of the company and handing over clues of suspected crimes to relevant departments for handling. Meng Wei still acted on the request of Han XX to clear up the relationship for the polluting company in an attempt to avoid punishment., but ultimately be punished by law.
In order to contract a project for Han’s company, Meng Wei adopted the method of saving the country with a curve. First, he used his position to help a lake in a certain city in Hunan Province be selected as a national key lake. In return, Han contracted nearly 20 million yuan in the cityEnvironmental Engineering.
The reason why Meng Wei took so much pains to escort Han Moumou was that apart from being unable to withstand the meticulous nostalgia card played by Han Moumou, the more important thing was the huge amount of benefits delivered.Han Moumou said: I sent money to Meng Wei, so I dared to ask him to do things. If 100,000 yuan can be done, I will give him 200,000 yuan, so that he has to do things for me according to my requirements.According to the investigators, Meng Wei received millions of yuan in favors from Han alone.
According to Caixin reporter’s understanding, the above-mentioned Han XX is Han Cleaning, and his company is Qingdao Xintiandi Solid Waste Comprehensive Disposal Co., Ltd. The company’s hazardous waste business license was revoked by the former Ministry of Environmental Protection on December 2, 2016.
According to Shandong local media Economic Herald, the local Environmental Protection Bureau stated that in July 2005, Xintiandi Company’s medical waste disposal project was put into trial operation, and passed the completion acceptance of Qingdao Environmental Protection Bureau in April 2006; in August 2008, the hazardous waste disposal projectIt was put into trial operation and passed the completion acceptance of the Ministry of Environmental Protection in October 2010.Since 2012, the Environmental Protection Bureau of Laixi City has successively received reports from local villagers about the environmental pollution problems of Xintiandi Company, and the company has also received two rectification notices within a time limit.
In 2015, the East China Inspection Center of the Ministry of Environmental Protection found that the company had many illegal problems in operation and management.The main manifestations are: the process parameters of the enterprise do not meet the requirements of the pollution control standards for hazardous waste incineration; the enterprise still blindly pursues economic benefits when the process parameters do not meet the standards, and it is super capable of disposing of hazardous waste and super capable of receiving hazardous waste.
After May 2016, villagers around the vein industrial park where Xintiandi Company is located have repeatedly reported that Xintiandi Company often emits exhaust gas at night, which affects the rest and health of villagers.At the same time, crops such as peanuts, corn, fruit trees, and green seedlings in the fields near the enterprise have experienced reduced production and damage.
According to the enterprise report, the company incinerated more than 10,000 tons of industrial waste in 2015, exceeding the amount approved by the Ministry of Environmental Protection, and received hazardous waste exceeding its operating license by more than 10,000 tons.In addition, the enterprise illegally collected and stored tens of thousands of tons of hazardous waste, and some of the hazardous waste stored in the open air was damaged in packaging, the surrounding area smelled bad, and the environmental safety hazards were prominent; the enterprise also had problems such as falsified operation and disposal accounts and extensive management of hazardous waste landfills..
According to the report of the Laixi City Procuratorate on June 12, 2018, the Laixi City Procuratorate prosecuted 8 units and 23 individuals including Xintiandi Environmental Group, which illegally disposed of hazardous waste, for the crime of environmental pollution;
At the same time, in accordance with the guidance of the reform plan of the ecological and environmental damage compensation system of the Central Office and the State Office, actively cooperate with the Political and Legal Committee of the Municipal Party Committee to draft a request for instructions from the Qingdao Municipal People's Government on applying for authorization to claim for ecological and environmental damage to Xintiandi and other companies, and assist the Qingdao Municipal Procuratorate to carry out supportSue work.
Another big problem for Meng Wei is to get.According to the article, in February 2006, the National Medium and Long-term Science and Technology Development Plan (2006-2020) issued by the State Council identified 16 major science and technology projects, including the National Water Pollution Control and Treatment Science and Technology Major Project.As the chief engineer of water technology, Meng Wei looks to Qian in his scientific research work, and regards this water pollution control technology project with the largest investment since the founding of New China as a monk's meat.
According to the investigators, many units undertaking special water projects have transferred benefits to Meng Wei in various ways.Chen Moumou, a professor at a university in Zhejiang at the time, sent hundreds of thousands of yuan to Meng Wei in order to set up a project in the special water project; a technology company in Hangzhou, in order to participate in the special water project, gave Meng Wei nearly one million yuan in the name of consulting feesYuan; after a Beijing environmental protection company sent a large amount of cash, it undertook a certain water project, which became a major benefit for the company's listing;
In addition to exchanging water for economic benefits, Meng Wei also used it to operate his personal network.Many researchers reported that it is very difficult for some well-known experts in the field of water pollution control to undertake water-specific projects, but Meng Wei's students, classmates, colleagues and friends can easily get the projects.Many of these projects that have been sent as human favors have problems such as false project establishment to extract funds, content plagiarism, multiple accounts, and misuse of funds.
Because of Meng Wei, the chief technical engineer, in the water project, a number of projects passed the inspection after modifying the scale and technical indicators of the demonstration projects. Although there are many demonstration projects, they have been transformed into technical achievements and designs of actual pollution control projects.There is a big gap between the goals, and some demonstration projects stopped running after the research was completed, and they were put on the shelf and became decorations.Meng Wei himself admitted that the research results of the water special project were rarely adopted by the "Water Ten Rules", and an important strategic opportunity to comprehensively support the country's water pollution prevention and control was missed.
Relying on the hospital to eat the hospital is another channel for Meng Wei to make money under the guise of scientific research.According to the case investigators, Meng Wei arranged for an environmental protection company to participate in scientific research projects of the Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences many times. After the funds were allocated to the company, the projects were still completed with the help of the personnel of the Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences. In essence, it was to deliver benefits to the company in the name of scientific research., Meng Wei himself took kickbacks from it.
The person in charge of the company said frankly: Our company has no scientific research capabilities. After receiving the funds, we can buy a few cars and build a few waste recycling points. The rest of the money is directly included in the company's profits.For such a company, Meng Wei even recommended it as the co-organizer of the meeting of heads of environmental science institutes in China, Japan and South Korea, and made an exchange speech as an observer.
In addition, Meng Wei often organizes experts from relevant scientific research units to stand for the enterprise, and clearly mark the price of the appearance fee, so as to receive high returns.In 2012, Meng Wei organized a number of academicians and scientific research team leaders to participate in a company's development seminar, signed a cooperation agreement with the company in the name of a national scientific research unit, and received more than one million yuan from the company leader just this time.
In addition to seeking huge profits, Meng Wei is also engaged in a small circle at the Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences.When it comes to selecting and employing people, Meng Wei doesn't start from advancing his career, but whether he is in the circle, listens or not, and whether he is helpful to him.In order to promote and use his own people, Meng Wei did not hesitate to adopt illegal methods such as changing the scope of evaluation and tailoring positions.
Meng Wei's driver Miao, who is known as the second president of the Academy of Environmental Sciences, often used the banner of Meng Wei to collect money for other people. It was initially found that Miao was suspected of accepting bribes and the amount was huge.Many people reported to Meng Wei that there was a problem with Miao, but Meng Wei said that whoever said that Miao was not good had an opinion on me, and hired Miao as the deputy manager of the property company of the Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences in violation of regulations.
The decoupling and restructuring of EIA agencies is an important measure to implement the requirements of the central inspection and rectification and solve the problem of red-top intermediaries.During the decoupling and restructuring process of a Beijing environmental impact assessment company controlled by the Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences, Meng Wei changed the decoupling plan without authorization, helped a private environmental protection company undertake Class A environmental impact assessment qualifications and related businesses, and received millions of yuan from the actual controller of the company afterwardsBenefit fee.
According to a Caixin reporter, after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Meng Wei received more than half of the money he violated all disciplines and laws. There was even a problem when the discipline inspection department went to the Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences to feed back the central inspection opinions and announced the implementation of the national water special project.On the day that the relevant issues were investigated, he was still accepting cash at the office.Meng Wei served as the president of the Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences for 15 years. In addition to him, three members of the leadership team of the academy were punished by the party and government, but none of them made timely organizational adjustments.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, many officials in the environmental protection system have been sacked, including Zhang Lijun, the former vice minister of the Ministry of Environmental Protection (sentenced to 4 years in prison for bribery and a fine of 500,000 yuan), and the former Department of Science and Technology Standards of the Ministry of Environmental Protection.Director Xiong Yuehui (sentenced to 6 years in prison for accepting bribes and fined 600,000 yuan).■
