Is the person who leads the transfer of scientific research funds guilty?

1. Duan Zhenhao was sentenced for misappropriating more than one million scientific research funds 13.

Reimbursement of more than one million with fake bills

1February 13 10: 30, Duan Zhenhao, the criminal court of Beijing No.1 Intermediate People's Court, is awaiting trial, followed by Che Chunlan, another defendant in this case. Before the incident, she was the secretary of computer geochemistry discipline group of Institute of Geology and Geophysics, China Academy of Sciences.

According to the prosecution's indictment, from 2002 to July 20 1 1, Duan Zhenhao was in charge of the whole process of scientific research project application, project implementation and final acceptance during his tenure as a researcher at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of China Academy of Sciences and the head of the discipline group of computational geochemistry and its application. His secretary Che Chunlan provided auxiliary work for the research group.

The prosecution put forward three allegations: from 2002 to 20 1 1 July, two people used false bills to reimburse travel expenses and other expenses totaling1240,000 yuan, and Duan Zhenhao gave Che Chunlan a small amount of benefits after illegally possessing the above funds; In May of 20 1 1, Duan Zhenhao signed a false website development contract with others, reimbursed the website development fee with false bills, and defrauded the research fund of 58,500 yuan; Che Chunlan reimbursed with fake bills from 2003 to 20 10 178500.

According to the evidence held by the prosecution, Duan and Che were mainly involved in finding fake bills and reimbursing them from scientific research funds in various names. Reimbursement items include travel expenses, photocopying and binding fees, labor fees, car rental fees and website development fees. Duan Zhenhao's relatives, friends, students, acquaintances and colleagues provide them with bills. The two men reimbursed the bills from finance under the guise of members of the research group, and Cui, a member of the research group, confirmed that these research contents were basically completed in the laboratory, and Cui himself had never been on a business trip for scientific research.

According to Duan Zhenhao's own confession, among his false travel expenses, more than 200,000 are Yinchuan invoices provided by Nanny Zhang, more than 300,000 are Daqing invoices provided by Lin, and more than 200,000 are invoices for visiting relatives in his hometown in Hunan every year and invoices provided by his younger brother. In addition, he also found a ticket agency to buy a fake trip to travel itinerary.

After getting these fake documents, Duan Zhenhao gave them to Che Chunlan, who sometimes reminded him which students were more reasonable from the financial point of view. After getting the money for each reimbursement, Duan Zhenhao admitted to giving Che Chunlan a few hundred dollars in benefits, and then gave some money to Zhang, Lin and others, and also gave the students labor expenses, put some cash in the office for standby, and deposited the rest in a bank account, and then transferred the account money to his wife Cao's name. (20 13 0 1.04 Source: Xinhuanet)

2. Two teachers in a university in Hunan forged official documents to defraud funds.

On April 12, official website, the General Administration of Press and Publication of China, released a message entitled "Two teachers in Hunan were punished for forging the official documents of the General Administration of Press and Publication", claiming that two teachers in a university in Hunan, Wang and Li Yin, were punished for forging the scientific research project documents of the General Administration of Press and Publication and using false projects and their project funds to obtain matching funds from the college alone or in partnership with others.

According to the news released by the General Administration of Press and Publication, from June 20 10 to August 2010, the main person responsible for the incident, Wang, entrusted others to carve the official seal and make fake official letters, and successively forged seven copies of the scientific research project documents of the General Administration of Press and Publication and handed them over to the scientific research office of the college. Seven so-called "projects" were involved, and the so-called "project funds" were 830,000 yuan, including two "projects" related to Li, deputy director of the research department of the institute. 20111kloc-0/0. On 8 October, the university sent a letter to the General Administration of Press and Publication, requesting to confirm the authenticity of official documents related to scientific research projects. Upon verification with the General Office of the General Administration, the attached seven official documents are all forged.

On February 28th, 2065438+0165438, the school dealt with two main responsible persons: Wang was expelled, stayed in the Party for one year, and reported to the education administrative organ to revoke his teacher qualification according to the relevant provisions of the Teacher Qualification Regulations; Li was given a serious warning in the party and removed from the post of deputy director of the scientific research department. (201July 13 Source: China Youth Daily)

The dean passed the service fee off as his own in the name of the student.

According to Xinhua News Agency, the Haidian District Procuratorate in Beijing recently investigated and dealt with a corruption case of scientific research funds in colleges and universities. The teachers involved took advantage of the loopholes in the school's supervision of scientific research funds and took the labor expenses as their own in the name of students.

According to the prosecution, in May 2007, Xiao Mou, a teacher from a university in Beijing, was awarded a translation research project by a ministerial unit, and served as the project leader, with the project funding of 6.5438+0.5 million yuan.

In April 2008, Xiao obtained the names and ID numbers of 28 students from the office staff of his college. From May 2008 to June 5438+February 2008, in the name of these 28 students, he collected the service fee of 82,400 yuan in seven times. In fact, according to the Regulations on the Use of Project Funds issued by the Ministry, the project service fee can only be paid to the relevant personnel (such as graduate students) and temporary employees who have no salary income among the project members, while Xiao, as a school teacher, has no right to charge the service fee. Due to the report of others, Xiaomou took the labor fee and filed a case.

20 1 1 In July, Haidian District Procuratorate filed a case against Xiao on suspicion of corruption. At present, the Xiao case has been transferred for review and prosecution.

Investigators told reporters that after Xiao got the translation research project, in order to achieve the purpose of tax avoidance, he received money from 800 yuan in the name of students every time. Every time he received the service fee, Xiao signed the "project leader" and "supervisor" columns on the service fee claim form, and no one ever questioned this. (201165438+February 27th Source: Jinghua Times)

4. The ecological chain of corruption of scientific research funds in colleges and universities: the leakage is shocking.

Zhao Jing (pseudonym) is the journal of the School of Chemistry designated by the Finance Department of a famous university in Beijing. There are many old professors in the college, and the subject resources are quite rich. Thanks to years of contact, everyone trusts Zhao Jing. As long as there is money in the account that does not affect their scientific research progress, teachers often don't care too much about the changes in the account. Sometimes a sum of money is transferred from one project account to another account for reimbursement, and Zhao Jing is often entrusted to make adjustments. This gives Zhao Jing a chance. At first, Zhao Jing added a little personal expenses to teachers' invoices, and later it gradually developed into reimbursement 1 000 yuan. Zhao Jing put thousands of dollars in the money he found. Two years ago, Zhao Jing was worried and embezzled about 10,000 yuan every year. Since the third year, the number of frauds has been increasing. Every year, the amount of corruption is more than 654.38+10,000 yuan, and the highest is nearly 200,000 yuan. The most incredible thing is that some professors have gone abroad, and some professors have not used up the project funds, but they have become her own small treasury. In order to facilitate reimbursement, she even forged someone else's seal for distribution.

After Zhao Jing was killed, the court found out that in nine years, Zhao Jing embezzled more than 970,000 yuan, most of which was scientific research funds, involving cases 106. Zhao Jing was finally sentenced to four years' imprisonment, and all the money he deliberately embezzled was returned to the unit, eventually drawing water with a sieve.

In Zhao Jing's college, two laboratory workers took advantage of their position to manage the funds for instrument development, took advantage of the opportunity of the college to organize a study tour to foreign universities, and returned to Beijing for reimbursement of personal travel expenses of more than 50,000 yuan in the name of overseas study tour and foreign exchange, and were finally convicted of corruption.

In this case, the school stipulates that the expense reimbursement needs to be reviewed by the department head and the college leader in charge of finance one by one before the reimbursement documents can be reimbursed. Two laboratory staff repeatedly stamped the seal of a person in charge of the laboratory on the reimbursement documents, easily bypassing the audit of this department, and then this "tolerance" that did not meet the procedures bypassed multiple supervision step by step. (20111215 Source: China Youth Daily)

5. Prosecutors exposed the corruption of scientific research fees in colleges and universities.

"Raise the banner to make tiger skin"

In investigating corruption cases involving scientific research funds, prosecutors found that some funds were not earmarked strictly according to regulations, and many expenses were irrelevant to the subject. In the process of financial reimbursement, there are not a few phenomena, such as signing after reimbursement, using others' signatures to replace others' signatures, and using invoices to offset accounts, which also occur from time to time.

In addition, there is a more ridiculous phenomenon: because it is easier to declare projects in the name of well-known professors at present, colleagues or students often "pull the banner as tiger skin" when declaring projects. Maybe the professors didn't participate in the actual work at all, until they found out the problem of using the funds, and these professors suddenly remembered that they had signed the project application form.

According to Li Siyao, the procurator of Haidian District Procuratorate, since 2006, the hospital has put on record a total of 16 cases of duty crimes in the field of scientific research funds. Among them, corruption and misappropriation crimes are relatively concentrated, and they are all implemented by taking advantage of loopholes in the supervision of scientific research funds. Among them, college cases account for a considerable proportion.

Professor of vertical and horizontal

Professor Zhang Zhigang (pseudonym) from a second-level college in Beijing is in charge of the project of "Research on Translation of Publicity Materials" in a ministerial unit. The title of this course is "vertical project", but in colleges and universities, it is relatively more convenient to extract labor costs from "horizontal project". Zhang Zhigang concealed the certificate of this ministerial unit, and first applied to the Science and Technology Department of the school for approval in the name of "horizontal project".

Soon, the school issued regulations to increase the incentives and subsidies for "vertical projects", and its advantages exceeded those of "horizontal projects". Zhang Zhigang then found a school and set up a "vertical project" project. However, when withdrawing money, he found a list of students with more than 20 people, and still falsely reported 8 labor expenses in the name of students in accordance with the management regulations of "horizontal projects", totaling more than 80,000 yuan. After receiving the report and investigating, the procuratorial organ filed a case for investigation on suspicion of corruption.

Project fees become "performance pay"

Teacher Zhao, a financial officer of a university in Heilongjiang, told the reporter that the income directly received by professors from the school is roughly divided into two parts: "basic salary+performance salary", of which performance salary accounts for at least half, and the basic salary is generally around 5,000 yuan. This means that even professors with the same level and length of service will have different incomes. Researchers who apply for more project funds have more disposable funds, which are more used to pay performance salaries.

Teacher Zhao introduced that since the late 1980s, in order to promote the transformation and application of scientific research achievements, colleges and universities began to encourage teachers to "actively apply for projects", and professors became chips and "cash cows" for colleges and universities to apply for funds, and their treatment increased with the commission of project funds.

At the same time, there are huge differences in the amount of funds obtained by different disciplines. A big project of science and engineering is millions, and a project of humanities can get hundreds of thousands, which is not bad. Commissions based on the same proportion also increase the imbalance of teachers' income.

On the one hand, the funds of colleges and universities are increasing, and on the other hand, the basic salary of professors is limited. Under such a system, it is natural for individuals to earn income: starting a company and working part-time outside the school, some professors can make millions a year and earn a lot of money.

Equipment procurement is also a big black hole.

In the process of purchasing focusing microscope, analyzer and other instruments for a normal college, the buyer of experimental equipment received nearly 10,000 yuan from the equipment manufacturer. In handling the case, the prosecution found that the contents of the contract were "tampered with" at will, and the "equipment training fee" was credited to the buyer's personal account without supervision. In the end, the buyer was sentenced to 6 years in prison for accepting bribes. (201165438+February16 Source: Jingchu. com-Chutian Gold Newspaper) (According to China Youth Daily)

6. It is an unspoken rule that only 40% of scientific research funds in China are used for projects.

It is no secret that scientific research funds are arbitrarily occupied and squandered in the scientific research community.

A month ago, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Science and Technology issued the Notice on Adjusting Several Provisions of the National Science and Technology Plan and Measures for the Administration of Special Funds for Scientific Research in Public Welfare Industries. The core content of the notice is to strengthen budget preparation, strictly evaluate and review, and hand over surplus funds. At the same time, open the budget of non-confidential projects and explore the system of project performance disclosure.

"This is a headache, but it is also a headache. It is purely a form, and it is useless to inform. " 10 10 On October 30th, Gao Ren (a pseudonym), director of the Institute of Western Region of China Academy of Social Sciences, said that it was actually an open secret how research funds were spent.

As an old researcher, Gao Ren is quite helpless about some hidden rules of science and technology. She said that everyone does this. If you don't do this, it will look different, and the leaders won't believe you.

Problems in the use of scientific research funds, such as expanding the scope of expenditure, adjusting the budget without authorization, and buying equipment by surprise, are common. 20 10, the funds found by the national audit office alone amounted to several hundred million yuan. According to a survey conducted by China Association for Science and Technology, only about 40% of scientific research funds are used for the project itself, and a large amount of scientific research funds are lost outside the project.

An academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who asked not to be named, said that in the early years, insufficient investment in science and technology in China was a major bottleneck restricting scientific and technological innovation. Now the money is in place, but the limited money is not spent on the cutting edge, which has become a magic weapon for some researchers to "circle money".

A staff member of Haidian District Procuratorate, who asked not to be named, said that since 2003, the hospital has filed a total of 7 cases of duty crimes in the field of scientific research funds1person, involving 2 1 person, of which corruption and misappropriation crimes are relatively concentrated, and most of the people involved are senior intellectuals.

Project owner

"Competition is everywhere, ostensibly for the project, but actually for the money." Xiao, the 55-year-old director of the Beijing office of a university in Central South China, said that it is said that the Beijing office of the university runs projects and funds. In fact, the most powerful thing is scientific research.

Novel, because the income of researchers is not directly proportional to the funds obtained, and the performance pay of some scientific research units comes from the funds, so everyone is trying to find a way.

Take Xiao's school as an example. The monthly salary of university lecturers is only 3,000 yuan, and that of associate professors is less than 4,000 yuan. The salary of scientific research institutes, excluding the performance salary in scientific research funds, is four or five thousand. Fang Xin, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of China Academy of Sciences, publicly stated in an interview that the current funds can be used to buy scientific research equipment and do things, but not to others. This problem has never been solved.

Han Yu, director of the Policy Bureau of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, revealed that in China, the use of labor services accounts for 23.6%, while that in developed countries reaches 45%. The per capita annual labor cost of researchers in China is about112 in Japan and16 in South Korea.

Gao Ren bluntly said that the rise in prices is not directly proportional to wages, so everyone is trying to engage in projects and scientific research. Because after you get the money, how to spend it is your call.

In addition, in the field of scientific research, there is no systematic law on the establishment, approval, use of funds and supervision responsibility of scientific research projects in China. The lack of legislation directly leads to the confusion of scientific research project management. However, the management of scientific research projects presents a situation of "multi-disciplinary, fragmented". All funding sources have formulated their own methods for scientific research projects, and universities and research institutes have also formulated management systems. The disunity of management system leads to the uncoordinated and conflicting management regulations of different scientific research units, which objectively condones the occurrence of scientific research corruption.

In addition, some prestigious teachers will also use their personal connections to run projects and topics everywhere. After running to the project, I will find some teachers to do research and development together, and after paying part of the labor expenses as needed, all the rest will fall into my personal coffers. And those doctoral students who follow their tutors to do scientific research projects can also get some remuneration from scientific research funds.

"In the scientific research circle, this is called' project boss'. Some people just run projects and then take kickbacks from others." Gao Ren said that the general project owner has a close relationship with the Beijing Office, because it depends on the Beijing Office to take the lead and connect with the ministries.

This statement has also received a small acquiescence. Xiao said that March-May is the peak period every year. Until June, the Beijing office was the "first offensive position" of the "project owner". When the projects and funds came down, the Beijing office gradually became deserted.

China's education funds are scattered in the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Science and Technology and other departments. The main way of funding is the project system, that is, the project is declared and the funding is approved after the project is established. However, this funding system requires colleges and universities to establish a good relationship with the departments in charge of financial rights for a long time.

In addition, the leaders of "985 University" and "2 1 1 University" are mainly appointed by the education authorities. Among them, the secretary and president of "985 University" are often deputy ministerial level, while the secretary and president of "2 1 1 University" are director level, so they are often higher than the municipal government. Therefore, it is very important for local schools to set up a Beijing office, contact the education department in time, understand the instructions from their superiors and report the results of running schools.

However, Xiao always believes that the confusion of scientific research funds is due to interests. As long as the financial power of scientific research funds is separated from the examination and approval power, the departments with financial power withdraw from project examination and approval, then the scientific research investment fund system is established and a fair, just and open expert evaluation system is introduced, these chaos will end.

Private savings

After the project is in hand, how to spend it is the key, and it should be spent without leaving a trace. There are several usual ways: first, taking kickbacks, the equipment is only 5 million, 8 million or 6.5438+million, and the extra money has been transferred to the personal card number; Secondly, buy car real estate in the name of scientific research needs, and take it for yourself after the project is over; Thirdly, set up a company by yourself and take a stake in scientific research funds; Or, it is to go abroad or travel around in the name of investigation.

However, it is not convenient for scientific research institutes in the western region to go abroad for inspection, and they have to go through many audits, but this does not prevent them from spending money under various excuses.

For example, after the introduction of the discipline system in the social science field, the cost of equipment and instruments is a small part of the budget, and the expenses such as transportation, travel, information and meals are the main expenses. The common excuses are a lot of social investigations and academic exchanges; In the field of humanities, consulting text documents is the main research form, and it is meaningless to buy important materials in the library. In order to make the funds reach a certain scale, computers, cameras, scanners, etc. It will be filled in repeatedly. Once the project is approved and the funds are fully covered, these expenses can be replaced by other expenses. "Investigation and academic exchange are the most commonly used tricks in the scientific research circle, specifically choosing places that have never been to." Gao Ren said that it is too simple to send an invitation letter to any foreign society in the name of investigation or academic exchange.

Li Zhi, a researcher at an institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that many of their teachers have been to almost all parts of the world. Why do so many people want to squeeze into scientific research institutions? How much should researchers and university teachers get? Originally, it was specific, but the fact that scientific research funds were arbitrarily dominated acquiesced in the existence of these gray incomes.

Kevin Xiao said that when the project is handed in, everyone tries their best to spend money, because if the money is not spent, the next project may not get so much money. "If you come for money, deduct 10% and stamp it for you." An associate professor in the Department of Materials Engineering of a university in Beijing, who asked not to be named, said: "Universities are like vegetable markets. The researchers only booked one of the booths and browsed it. "

The story of Jiang Qin, the former assistant director of the center for biological authentication and evaluation of a research institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences, is typical. Jiang Qin's institute is a backbone research institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which is mainly responsible for intelligent recognition system, face recognition technology and iris recognition technology. , are cutting-edge high-tech. Jiang Qin is responsible for managing the administrative affairs of the Institute's Biological Certification and Evaluation Center, and handling the application and reimbursement of project funds. However, every time Jiang Qin applies for divestment, the tutor often just signs it and then doesn't ask where the funds go.

According to the materials of the public prosecution agency, in 2004, Jiang Qin registered and established Beijing Landun Principal Science and Technology Development Co., Ltd. He signed two false cooperation agreements with Landun Company in the name of the company, and on February 2 and June 3, 2005, he used the invoices issued by Landun Company to reimburse the company for two cheques of 3 1 10,000 yuan and 400,000 yuan respectively, and deposited them in Landun Company, with a score of/kloc-0. From 2005 to 2006, the inspection and certification fee paid by the entrusting unit was deducted several times, totaling 60 thousand yuan. In addition, Jiang Qin also fabricated reasons for paying teaching materials and training fees to a company or training institution, and asked the tutor to sign a forged contract. After the tutor signed it, the contract text was changed, and the payment direction was changed to Institute Payment Blue Shield Company.

According to a person from Haidian District Procuratorate, on one occasion, the reimbursement form signed by Jiang Qin was only 20 yuan. When he got the financial cash, he added "3 100" in front of 20 yuan and easily withdrew 3 10000 yuan. On September 9, 2008, Jiang Qin was sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment 12 years for committing corruption. (20111.5 Source: Economic Observer)