CCTV News:Lottery is defined as "raising money by drawing lots to give prizes". It originates from the game, and the essence of the game is a kind of fun activity that comes out of people’s physiological needs.
The purpose of issuing lottery tickets by the state is to raise public funds and support the development of social public undertakings such as welfare and sports, rather than gambling.
However, in recent years, some officials have always been dismissed because of the "lottery".
In 2017, Wang Baoan, the former party secretary and director of the National Bureau of Statistics, took advantage of his position to help relevant units and individuals in matters such as lottery sales, and illegally accepted other people’s property totaling RMB 153 million, and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the first instance.
Wang Baoan, former Party Secretary and Director of the National Bureau of Statistics
In 2016, Yin Mingkui, former deputy inspector of the Civil Affairs Department of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, was sentenced to five and a half years in prison. According to him, more than 2.8 million yuan of bribes were used to buy lottery tickets.
In 2013, Wang Shicai, former deputy director of human resources management department and financial controller of Qinghai Coal Fish Card Company, was found to have embezzled 7.863 million yuan of public funds and misappropriated 80.85 million yuan of public funds, all of which were used to buy lottery tickets, resulting in the squandering of more than 90 million yuan of public funds.
In 2012, Feng Enbo, a family planning worker in Tengchong County, Yunnan Province, misappropriated more than 1.28 million yuan in social support fees to buy sports and welfare lottery tickets, and was finally sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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They can’t restrain their thirst for money, or they can’t restrain the gambler’s psychology, or they are addicted to it … … Buying lottery tickets is regarded as "gambling". In order to "gamble" to win, I will not hesitate to take my own future and freedom.
Leaders of state-owned enterprises frantically collect 9 million yuan.
"The desire to buy lottery tickets erodes me like a drug addiction."
On June 2, 2017, Xu Wei, deputy director of the Party and Mass Work Department of China Electronic Science and Technology Network Information Security Co., Ltd., was suspected of corruption and was placed on file for investigation.
According to Xu Ke, when he was only 34 years old, he took the leadership position at the deputy division level, which made him constantly expand, no longer satisfied with the sense of accomplishment brought by his work achievements, and began to buy football lottery for greater stimulation. He once won 700,000 yuan in a single day and lost more than 200,000 yuan in half a day. Losing more and winning less is doomed to make ends meet. After selling two houses in Chengdu successively, they began to borrow money to buy lottery tickets. Xu Ke said in his confessions: "The desire to buy lottery tickets erodes me like a drug addiction, which makes me crazy." Losing your mind again and again, the deficit is finally unbearable.
According to the "Procuratorate Daily", from January 2015 to May 2017, the suspect Xu Ke took advantage of his position to borrow the state-owned funds of his unit in 64 loan forms, with a total amount of 9.47 million yuan, by means of fictitious business contract, private seal of the unit and imitation of the signature of the party committee leader.
Discipline inspection cadres are "possessed"
"I firmly believe that the 5 million prize is waiting for me not far away."
On December 24th, 2015, Liu Chaoqun, the former head of the discipline inspection team of jia county Coal Bureau, was double-opened.
According to media reports, Liu Chaoqun became obsessed with buying lottery tickets because he won a grand prize of 100,000 yuan in a lottery ticket he accidentally bought. He firmly believes that the god of luck will take care of himself again, winning 100 thousand this time, and the grand prize of 5 million is waiting for him not far away.
He used his extensive social relations to let his subordinates guarantee for himself on the grounds of family car accidents and building houses at home, and the accumulated high-interest loans amounted to more than 3.6 million yuan; By means of real estate mortgage, he defrauded 520,000 yuan from a businessman in the county, Wang Moumou; I also handled two credit cards in my own name, and maliciously overdrawn 100,000 yuan and 70,000 yuan respectively. Most of this money was squandered by his purchase of lottery tickets. In the end, it was difficult to repay the huge debts.
After being reported, Liu Chaoqun left home in a hurry and left a "suicide note" to his family before fleeing. In his "suicide note", he said that he had made a big mistake, so much money, I am afraid, would not be paid for a lifetime, and he was determined to die.
Six months after fleeing, on October 30, 2015, the public security organs arrested Liu Chaoqun, who worked in a glass factory workshop in Zhengzhou. At this time, he was dressed in a dirty old tooling, covered with dust and his face was full of vicissitudes, which was completely different from the past.
Accounting in exploration institute "can’t stop"
"I even eat at the lottery site, and I don’t return home."
From March 2010 to October 2011, Zhang Jiasheng, then an accountant of Huaiyin Branch of Jiangsu Institute of Hydrogeology and Marine Geology, took advantage of his position to misappropriate 3.778 million yuan of public funds to purchase China sports and welfare lottery tickets for profit-making activities, which was not returned for more than three months. In the end, he was sentenced to nine years in prison for embezzlement of public funds.
According to Zhang Jiasheng, in the first half of 2009, he fell in love with the lottery. After tasting the sweetness, Zhangjia Province began to buy lottery tickets in large quantities, and each purchase was tens of thousands of yuan. "During that time, I was thinking about lottery tickets every day in my mind. Sometimes, I even eat at the lottery site, and I don’t return home. "It’s like taking drugs, and I can’t stop."
In order to misappropriate public funds, Zhangjia Province falsely listed 14 expenses to fill the loopholes, totaling 2.59 million yuan. He also recorded the expenses of chartering fees paid to relevant personnel and units, invoices and receipts for diesel engine payment repeatedly, totaling more than 70,000 yuan.
As of the time of the incident, the bank card he kept with public funds had a deficit of more than 3 million yuan, and only 30,000 yuan was left in cash. Zhang Jiasheng, who was unable to pay back the money, chose to surrender himself.
The so-called "unrestrained horse, or vertical, or wild, or slaughtered; Without the power of supervision, it is corrupt, slack, or imprisoned. " Everything has its limits, and addiction is harmful to the body. A small lottery ticket is lucky to win, and it is not worthy of contributing welfare to society. Mentality is very important! Leading cadres should have a good grasp of the "degree", be tolerant of loneliness, poverty, temptation, and control the details, and put their desires in a cage of self-discipline. Hobbies are hobbies, and hobbies cannot be used as an excuse for greed. Those who indulge in hobbies and take risks will eventually be ruined and suffer the consequences. (Text/Ren Jia)
