In the final trial of the first case of Hubei Expressway, 3 parties cheated 11 million yuan (Figure)
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How do road builders who sleep in the wind know the shady scenes behind the construction of the expressway? (data picture)
The third party falsified and defrauded more than 11 million yuan "the first case of Hubei Expressway".
Contract fraud was convicted for the first time in similar cases.
● Hongda Company bribed the supervisors, falsely reported the quantities of works and materials and cut corners when undertaking seven sections of Hanyi Expressway from Xiantao to Jingzhou, and falsely claimed more than 11 million yuan of national construction funds.
● The audit department found the problem and handed the case over to the provincial public security department. Jingzhou police took over the investigation on April 30, 2006, and this case was called "the first case of Hubei Expressway".
● After the case was settled, the reconstruction project of Hanyi Expressway was extremely shocked. More than 10 renovation units have made self-examination and self-correction, and voluntarily admitted to Chutian Expressway that the amount of materials was falsely reported, thus reducing the loss to the country by more than 80 million yuan.
● The first trial held that "insufficient evidence" was characterized by "commercial bribery", while the final trial finally found that HTC and its responsible person were guilty of "contract fraud". There is no precedent for characterizing similar cases by contract fraud in China.
Legal Network reporter Hu Xinqiao
During the period when Hubei Hongda Road and Bridge Co., Ltd. undertook the reconstruction project of some sections of Hanyi (Wuhan-Yichang) Expressway, it bribed the supervisors and owners at a high price, and used such means as inflating the engineering quantity, falsely reporting the quantity of engineering materials and cutting corners to defraud the state construction funds by three parties of more than 11 million yuan.
It is difficult to investigate the criminal responsibility of contract fraud in similar cases in expressway construction. In October 2007, the case was finally decided, and the criminal responsibility of Hongda Road and Bridge Company and its responsible person was finally investigated for contract fraud. The relevant person in charge of the Hubei Provincial Public Security Department said that the case was the first in the country and provided a reference for investigating similar cases. It was called "the first case of Hubei Expressway".
The Economic Investigation Corps of Hubei Provincial Public Security Bureau recently disclosed the "4? Some information about the 30 "mega-contract fraud case.
Audit evidence is hard to find in August. Please ask the rescue police to take over.
In August 2005, the reconstruction project of the 280-kilometer-long Hanyi Expressway came to an end. The Audit Office of Hubei Province sent personnel to Hubei Hongda Road and Bridge Co., Ltd. to audit seven sections of Hanyi Expressway from 51 to 174 kilometers, and found that the accounts were fraudulent and the state funds were suspected of being embezzled in large quantities.
However, Yao Dexiang, the legal representative and general manager of Hongda Company, did not recognize the account: "Say that I made false accounts to make money, and you take the evidence!"
What’s even more troubling is that the supervisors of many projects are protecting HTC in every way. The audit lasted for 8 months and no conclusive evidence was found. The audit office decided to invite the police to intervene.
On April 4, 2006, Hubei Provincial Public Security Department took over the case and designated it as "the first case of Hubei Expressway", and Deputy Director Shang Wu personally supervised it. On April 30, the Economic Investigation Corps of the Provincial Department appointed the Economic Investigation Detachment of Jingzhou Public Security Bureau to handle the case in different places, codenamed "4? 30 "major case.
Only three months after graduation, the small supervisor took bribes
After filing the case, the police transferred the accounts from HTC’s computer and found that the payment records on the books could not be found at all, and there were a lot of fake invoices. The police concluded that the real account had been destroyed.
The police immediately investigated the "Supervision Log" provided by the project supervisor and sent four of them to the appraisal center of Southwest University of Political Science and Law. After identification, 90% of the contents in the log have been changed.
The police investigating the case decided to start with the supervisor and open a breakthrough.
On May 17, 2006, the task force made a secret arrest plan: more than 10 case handlers disguised as auditors and gathered Yao Dexiang and supervisors Qiu Longshui and Chen Liangjun together in the name of auditing accounts.
The arrest was successfully completed, and a total of 6 people were arrested that day.
The trial opened a breakthrough from the youngest Chen Liangjun. The 23-year-old college student, who had just left school for three months, quickly admitted that he had "accepted hundreds of thousands of yuan in bribes from the engineering side". "As soon as we arrived at the construction site, Yao Dexiang made great efforts to improve our life, arrange accommodation, invite us to entertain … and finally send us money directly."
The following investigation further confirmed that after these supervisors were dragged into the water, their greed continued to expand, and even developed to openly accept the false accounts reported by the construction party, split them in half and embezzle state funds.
American detectors are difficult to obtain evidence, and the arrogance of moths is even more arrogant.
After investigating the supervisors and other peripheral parties, the task force basically got the bottom of Yao Dexiang’s criminal means: Hongda Company, headed by Yao, falsely reported the amount of materials for the expressway repair project, and after being signed and approved by the supervision engineers, it took the project funds without authorization.
A reconstruction, using only 10 segments, the report became 200; According to the report, the consumption of steel bars is 9, but in actual construction, besides reducing the diameter of steel bars, one (only 8) will be extracted. With such despicable means, HTC received more than 10 million yuan of state funds.
But the crux of the problem is: the original materials have been destroyed, and the construction materials have all been buried under the pavement asphalt. How can we get the evidence of their false report?
Earlier auditors, together with the highway department, tried to find underground secrets with detection instruments imported from the United States. But the instrument can only show the existence of steel underground, and can’t calculate the shape and quantity of steel.
The fact that there was no trace of the crime greatly encouraged Yao Dexiang to resist the police interrogation and refused to admit that he had falsely reported the engineering materials.