Even risking their parents' retirement pension, cadres born in 1985 became addicted to gambling networks | Zhang | retired
"I have gradually transformed from an 'online gambler' to a 'life gambler' who has lost my career, future, family, love, and trust, and has become a criminal. In March 2022, Zhang, a former cadre of the Huichang Technical Service Station of the Ecological Environment Technology Service Center in Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, voluntarily surrendered to the disciplinary review and supervision investigation of the Huichang County Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision.".
Zhang, born in 1985, graduated with a master's degree and successfully passed the public recruitment examination in 2013 to become a cadre of the Huichang County Environmental Protection Bureau. In the first few years of working, Zhang was diligent and hardworking. Two years later, he became the director of the bureau's office. In 2018, he also served as the head of the comprehensive law enforcement team of the county environmental protection bureau.
However, with the promotion of his position, Zhang gradually became complacent and relaxed his political studies and party spirit cultivation. He was overwhelmed by the praises of "Director Zhang" and "Captain Zhang", and his mentality of comparison, materialism, and hedonism began to breed and spread.
After concurrently serving as the head of the Comprehensive Law Enforcement Brigade of the County Environmental Protection Bureau, Zhang, who had just taken over power, began to make various friends in society and wandered among various business owners. Faced with sugar coated bullets, he gradually lost his ability to resist, from initially accepting banquets and entering entertainment venues, to receiving gifts and gifts during holidays, creating cracks in his self-discipline dam one after another. Zhang, who relied on his high education and strong work ability, felt resentful that he had not been further promoted by the organization. He was absent-minded and passive in his work, and became addicted to gambling during the "golden period" when he should have focused on work and entrepreneurship.
"Being involved in online gambling is like opening Pandora's box, step by step pushing me into the abyss of sin." In 2019, Zhang accidentally came into contact with online gambling and, with a try and see attitude, registered a personal account on the platform. The thrill of fast and abundant money in online gambling makes him addicted and unable to extricate himself.
However, "ten bets and nine losses". Zhang spent all of his family's savings and even borrowed money from relatives, friends, and colleagues for various reasons, using bank loans, overdraft credit cards, and even his parents' retirement pension to make crazy bets. In just one year, he lost over 500000 yuan. With more and more gambling debts that he was unable to repay, he turned his attention to managing and serving his clients with empty hands.
From 2019 to 2022, Zhang borrowed a total of 387000 yuan from six management and service clients, and also took advantage of his position to demand a total of 75000 yuan from others under the pretext of borrowing. Some borrowers he has only met once, have no social interactions, and may not even remember their names.
Due to being deeply mired in gambling debts, Zhang became increasingly reckless in using his power to accumulate wealth and satisfy his personal desires. At the end of 2020, Zhang accepted Wang's request to treat the hazardous waste aluminum ash seized by the neighboring county ecological environment bureau as general solid waste, without transferring it to the public security organs for criminal responsibility. Despite knowing that this matter touched the legal red line, Zhang still readily agreed and accepted bribes totaling 250000 yuan from Wang three times, and bribed others to seek unfair benefits for Wang.
If you don't keep the small details, you will lose the big ones. Zhang accidentally fell into a gambling game, became addicted to it, and fell into the abyss of crime during the golden period of his life and career growth, destroying his own life. In the end, Zhang was expelled from the Party and public office due to serious violations of discipline and law, and was suspected of committing a crime. He was transferred to the procuratorial organs for legal review and prosecution.
