The Chengdu Commission for Discipline Inspection seriously investigated and dealt with the problem of grassroots cadres taking funds for poverty alleviation projects.
CCTV News:According to the website of the Supervision Department of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, among the corruption problems in the field of poverty alleviation investigated and dealt with by disciplinary committees at all levels, some grassroots cadres colluded with enterprises and cooperatives by participating in poverty alleviation projects, and even profited from participating in poverty alleviation projects with enterprises under their control.
Some cases investigated by districts and counties in Chengdu, Sichuan Province in recent years have proved this phenomenon. In view of the problems and loopholes exposed in such cases, the local discipline inspection commission has also taken various measures to further strengthen the whole chain supervision of poverty alleviation projects.
(A) This farmers’ professional cooperative has become a tool of corruption.
Shihe Village, Danjing Mountain Town, Pengzhou City, Sichuan Province, is located in the north of Chengdu Plain, and has been a poverty-stricken village at Pengzhou level until 2008. The income of villagers mainly depends on traditional agriculture and migrant workers. In 2016, the per capita income of the village was 15,862.45 yuan, which was still at a low local level.
It is such a poor village that can attract "flies". In 2010, Pengzhou City began to plan the new year to consolidate the work of returning farmland to forests. After hearing this news, You Xiaoling, who has been the stationmaster of Danjing Mountain Town Forestry Station since March 2007, started to borrow the public’s "chicken" to lay her own "egg".
You Xiaoling’s "small abacus" rattled: in the name of cooperatives, she declared the project of returning farmland to forests and breeding cooperatives to relevant departments, so as to obtain the subsidy funds for consolidating the project of returning farmland to forests and high-yield measures and poultry breeding projects.
The plan is "seamless", only one village is needed to undertake the project. After much deliberation, she took a fancy to the dual identity of Xu Mingcai, the secretary of the Party branch of Shihe Village and the head of Shihe Village Chicken Cooperative (handled separately), so she took the initiative to find Xu Mingcai and come clean about the plan.
"After the project funds come down, we will divide the remaining money after deducting the actual expenses." You Xiaoling promised Xu Mingcai. Xu Mingcai saw that it was profitable and immediately agreed.
After some "meticulous" operation, you Xiaoling and others fabricated a set of false project information without implementing any project content, and also successfully passed the project acceptance. In August 2012, more than 229,000 yuan was allocated to the account of Shihe Village Chicken Professional Cooperative, among which 80,000 yuan was shared by you Xiaoling.
Since then, you Xiaoling and others have become more and more daring and crazy. From 2011 to 2013, she and Li Zongyin (handled separately), then secretary of the branch and head of Donghe Village Breeding Cooperative in Danjing Mountain Town, used the same method to obtain a high-yield measure project of more than 450,000 yuan, from which You Xiaoling got more than 130,000 yuan.
In September 2014, the disciplinary problems of You Xiaoling and others surfaced, and she herself was also filed for review by the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and transferred to the judicial organs for handling. In the same month, you Xiaoling handed over some disciplinary fines totaling more than 200,000 yuan to the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection.
On May 27, 2016, the Pengzhou Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection gave You Xiaoling expulsion from the party. In August 2016, Pengzhou People’s Court sentenced You Xiaoling to 3 years and 10 months in prison. On September 18, 2016, You Xiaoling was expelled from public office by Pengzhou Forestry and Landscape Administration.
You Xiaoling’s case brought great shock and warning to the local area. The Pengzhou Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection held a special analysis meeting in the city’s forestry and garden system, and adopted a series of measures to ensure the standardized operation of special funds for forestry projects: (1) Formulating the Management Measures for Special Funds for Forestry; The implementation of the "fund card" will directly send the subsidy funds to the farmers’ real-name accounts, and the city’s forestry and landscape discipline inspection team will conduct random verification. At the same time, from the beginning of the project declaration, the publicity should be strengthened. After the project is completed, the archived materials must contain the comparative photos before and after the project implementation, and the publicity and supervision of the project acceptance results and materials should be strengthened.
(B) relying on fake contracts, the village party secretary cheated the special funds for poverty alleviation.
"The town party committee leadership has agreed to me to do so. We can re-sign a contract and inflate part of the cost. " Deng Faquan, secretary of the Party branch of Yulin Village, Pingwu Town, jianyang city City, Sichuan Province, was holding a contract with inflated funds "aboveboard" and kept saying "the leaders agreed".
Things have to start with the new village poverty alleviation project in Yulin Village in 2005. The project includes the construction of irrigation station and the laying of inverted rainbow pipes from irrigation station to reservoirs. At the end of November 2005, Deng Faquan and several other cadres went to buy equipment and materials such as pumps, PE pipes, compensators and accessories, and signed a purchase contract with the boss of the electromechanical company, with a total contract price of 84,000 yuan.
Things had been going well here, but Deng Faquan, who wanted to be selfish, suddenly proposed to other cadres in the village more than ten days later that he had paid more than 10,000 yuan in advance when running a project for Yulin Village, and now the town leaders agreed to deal with the expenses by increasing the contract amount. Several village cadres only know that he used to run a project for Murakami, but it is not clear whether he paid for it. When they heard that "the leader agreed", they went to the motor company with him in a daze and re-signed a contract, adding another 10,200 yuan to the original 84,000.
The village clerk in charge of making accounts later said, "This fake contract made me feel uncertain, and I was afraid that I would not be clear in the future. I made a note at the back of the revised contract ‘ Secretary Deng said that the increase in this contract was agreed by the town leaders to repay the project expenses. Second time (modification) ’ Wait for the words. "
The relevant personnel have doubts, but they don’t verify it, and they recognize the fake contract in a vague way. This also makes Deng Faquan more bold.
On the basis of the "fake contract", Deng Faquan also discussed with the boss of the motor company to continue to inflate some expenses by increasing the unit price of materials. Before and after, Deng Faquan defrauded a total of 15,000 yuan of special funds for poverty alleviation.
In December 2016, the Commission for Discipline Inspection of jianyang city received an anonymous report from the masses and promptly investigated and dealt with Deng Faquan’s problems. In January 2017, the Party Committee of Pingwu Town studied and decided to give Comrade Deng Faquan a serious warning within the party. All the 15,000 yuan defrauded in violation of regulations were collected and handed over to the collective account of Yulin Village.
The person in charge of the Commission for Discipline Inspection of Pingwu Town, jianyang city said: "The occurrence of this case warns us that the discipline inspection and supervision departments should further find and plug the supervision loopholes and strengthen the education and supervision of village cadres."
At present, jianyang city is carrying out special rectification of discipline violations in the field of poverty alleviation, and has formulated the "Accountability Measures for Poverty Alleviation in jianyang city" to increase accountability for supervision and discipline. At the same time, we should employ mass supervisors and hold regular village (neighborhood) people’s inquiry meetings to expand the channels for the masses to participate in village-level affairs management.
Most of the corruption problems in the field of poverty alleviation occur at the grassroots level. Some grassroots cadres ignore the party discipline and state laws and make "bad ideas" about poverty alleviation funds. Their means are not only simple to eat and get cards, but also focus on poverty alleviation projects. At present, most poverty alleviation projects are led by grassroots governments, undertaken by farmers’ professional cooperatives, and rural grassroots cadres are the "protagonists". In these projects, some grass-roots cadres overstep the power boundary, being both "athletes" and "referees", and some individuals even engage in corruption under the guise of "cooperatives". Therefore, it is urgent to standardize the supervision of poverty alleviation projects and clarify the power boundary of rural grassroots cadres.
The problems found in the operation of poverty alleviation projects also exposed the loopholes in supervision and management of individual units and departments, which brought us a profound warning. The Seventh Plenary Session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection explicitly requested that special rectification should be carried out in the field of poverty alleviation this year, and those who dare to reach out to poverty alleviation and other livelihood funds and materials should be resolutely investigated and punished. Grassroots discipline inspection and supervision organs should ensure the safe and smooth running of poverty alleviation funds in the "last mile", further strengthen the whole chain supervision of poverty alleviation projects, prevent grassroots cadres from "stepping on the red line" when operating poverty alleviation projects, and ensure that every poverty alleviation fund can be used in the cutting edge.