Over the past 12 years, there have been more than 200 cases of embezzlement, and a state-owned enterprise in Pu'er has falsified invoices. One accountant and one cashier are responsible for the cashier's work, which includes testing, supervision, organization, corruption, Pu'er City, accounting, and finance
"After investigation, from 2011 to 2022, Li took advantage of his position to illegally occupy company funds multiple times, using methods such as forging invoices, modifying statements, imitating leaders' signatures, imitating agents' signatures, forging financial authorization payment vouchers, and fabricating economic transactions. He engaged in more than 200 instances of corruption, totaling more than 1.65 million yuan. All of this money was used for expenses such as catering and entertainment, household expenses, and repaying online loans."
Recently, the China Discipline Inspection and Supervision Daily published a report revealing that the Discipline Inspection Commission and Supervision Commission of Pu'er City, Yunnan Province, discovered a corruption case related to Li, who had previously served as both an accountant and cashier for the company, through the chaotic financial accounts of Pu'er Road Ying Highway Engineering Testing Co., Ltd. during its investigation of related issues.
The report stated that having the same person as the accountant and cashier violated the audit regulations, and the task force decided to start with the invoice stub for verification. After consulting with the tax authorities, it was found that fake invoices involved an amount of over 800000 yuan. After obtaining relevant evidence, the Pu'er City Supervision Commission designated the Jiangcheng County Supervision Commission to investigate and take detention measures against Li.
According to Li, since taking charge of the company's finance in 2011, he has frequently used methods such as transferring money from the company's account to his personal bank card or directly withdrawing the company's reserve funds and depositing them into his own bank card, treating the company's assets as a private "ATM". Starting from the corrupt company paying the remaining 78 yuan for experimental equipment expenses, to transferring more than 100000 yuan to oneself in one go using the company account, greed grew stronger and stronger.
It wasn't until May 2015 that the company hired a new cashier, fearing that his embezzlement of public funds would be discovered, that Li was in a hurry to prepare financial accounts for the past few years. By organizing the accounts, she found that the unit's accounts could not be balanced at all. "I remember that there are colleagues in the company who tear up meal tickets to claim reimbursement, so I had the idea of purchasing fake invoices to settle the accounts," said Li.
Fictitious reception expenses, office supplies, tea and other expenses, false reporting of testing expenses, consulting and evaluation expenses... The accounting vouchers made by Li are filled with a large number of false accounts, and the actual expenditure receipts of the unit are lost. The real accounts and false accounts are intertwined and very chaotic.
On May 20, 2022, the website of the Pu'er Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision reported, citing information from the Jiangcheng County Supervision Commission, that Li Yanyuan, Minister of Finance and Chief Accountant of Pu'er Luying Highway Engineering Testing Co., Ltd., is suspected of serious illegal activities and has voluntarily surrendered to the case. The Pu'er Municipal Supervision Commission has designated the jurisdiction of the Jiangcheng County Supervision Commission and is currently under supervision and investigation.
On February 3, 2023, the case of Li, the former accountant of Pu'er Luying Highway Engineering Testing Co., Ltd., who was prosecuted by the Jiangcheng County Procuratorate, on suspicion of corruption, was publicly heard in the First Court of Jiangcheng County Court. The prosecution accuses that from 2011 to 2022, the defendant Li, while serving as an accountant at Pu'er Luying Highway Engineering Testing Co., Ltd. and concurrently as an accountant at Pu'er City Traffic Construction Engineering Quality Supervision Center, illegally occupied the funds of two units for personal consumption, totaling more than 1.65 million yuan.
The above report mentioned that in the end, Li was dismissed and sentenced to three years and six months in prison for committing corruption, and his illegal gains were recovered. In response to the financial management loopholes exposed by the company, the Pu'er Municipal Supervision Commission has issued a supervision recommendation letter, urging it to conduct investigations and reforms around financial management, fund use approval, and key position power operation, comprehensively sorting out and identifying problems and risk points in fund management and use, establishing and improving financial supervision and management systems, standardizing work processes, and strictly preventing such problems from happening again.
