Blocking Earth did not cheat nearly 100 million by "posing for photos"! Zhu County sewer fraud case: hired employee sentenced to 3 years and 6 months in prison

The Hsinchu County Government’s sewage and sewerage scandal case was recently concluded by the Hsinchu District Court. It was found that the county government’s Public Works Department employee surnamed Lin colluded with the third and fourth bidders of the second phase of the project. For the earth retaining facilities that were not actually constructed according to the drawings, the second bidder received nearly 98 million yuan based only on staged photos and false assessment data. Therefore, in each of the two cases, Lin was sentenced to 3 years in prison for profiteering. The combined sentence should be 3 years and 6 months and deprivation of public power for 4 years. The other four contractors were also sentenced to 4 years to 2 years and 4 months in prison. The other nine people involved in this case were all given probation opportunities because they had no criminal record, confessed to committing the crime, and had no possibility of re-offending. Each of them was also required to provide 60 to 200 hours of voluntary labor.

The judgment stated that Lin worked in the Sewerage Section of the County Public Works Department and was responsible for bid opening, bid review, contract performance management, estimation, valuation and acceptance of sewage and sewer projects. The second phase of Zhubei City's sewage sewer project began in 2014. The fourth bid was won by Zhenxin Construction with a price of 205.98 million yuan, and the third bid was won by Dongxinlong Construction with a price of 332 million yuan.

Among them, the total length of the fourth bid project is about 42,810 meters. According to the law, the excavation depth exceeds 1.5 meters. Rail piles and steel plate retaining facilities must be constructed. However, in order to save money, Zhenxin Construction only constructed 181.3 meters and the remaining 42,000 meters. 628.72 meters was not completed, but a few construction photos and false information were used to falsely report the construction amount to request payment. The construction supervisors knew that the construction work was not carried out in accordance with the contract but still reviewed and approved it, thus defrauding 51,549,346 yuan.

Dongxinlong Construction, which was responsible for the third project, also wanted to save costs and instructed its subcontractors not to use earth retaining. It also used the above-mentioned methods and used a few construction photos, false estimation data, and construction logs to obtain approval even though the supervisors knew that the construction was not in compliance with the regulations, and fraudulently obtained 46,635,432 yuan. However, Lin Nan, who was hired by the county government, knew that the two aforementioned bids were not executed according to the drawings, but published false information on the estimation, acceptance and settlement documents, issued the project payment and went through the acceptance process, in order to benefit the contractor.

The hospital believes that the actions of Lin Nan and others seriously affected the safety of public projects and endangered people's lives and property. Except Lin Nan, he was punished for the crime of seeking profit. Lu Nan, the supervisor of Zhenxin Construction, and Wu Nan, the on-site construction worker, were each sentenced to 4 years in prison for obtaining money by fraud; Cai Nan, the commercial company who supervised the construction, was sentenced to 2 years and April in prison for illegal review for profit, and Lu Nan, the person in charge of Zhenxin Construction, was sentenced to another 3 years.