According to statements by a spokesperson of Dongyang government, receipts for massage sessions posted on the Tianya forum belong to Wei Juntu, the director of Dongyang Audit Office (Zhejiang).Between April 3 and September 27 2003 Wei "paid" for seven "European-style" massage sessions (欧式按摩), seven hotel rooms and some kind of service charged on a time basis. Also, he got a few energy drinks.
A total of RMB 7126 (EUR 802, USD 1041, GBP 755) were charged to the account of Dongyang Audit Office.
One day in January 2009, someone known as "081209" following the footsteps of people in Anhui and Jiangxi posted the receipts on Tianya. This person must know Wei quite well. Another chance is that the hotel didn't see a fen of the more than 7.000 yuan due by the Audit Office.
Dongyang people's government has proposed to deal with Wei case as follows:
1. Wei should reimburse the money to the local commission for discipline inspection;
2. The commission for discipline inspection will start an investigation on him;
3. The case will be used to warn officials.
According to the CCP Regulations on Party Discipline Sanctions, art. 59, and to the Implementing Measure of the CCP Leading Cadres' Criteria for Clean Governance art. 14 (3) Wei should be expelled from the party. In practice, this is not easy to do. Not (just) because of guanxi.
Art. 14 (3) of the Clean Governance Criteria punishes the use of public funds or the unit's credit cards to reimburse personal expenditures 用公款报销或者用本单位的信用卡支付应由个人负担的费用.
If the Audit Office has not settled the bill, one may argue that the actual use of public funds has not taken place, therefore Dongyang government has not suffered any loss. In theory Wei may get away with a warning 警告...
One day in January 2009, someone known as "081209" following the footsteps of people in Anhui and Jiangxi posted the receipts on Tianya. This person must know Wei quite well. Another chance is that the hotel didn't see a fen of the more than 7.000 yuan due by the Audit Office.
Dongyang people's government has proposed to deal with Wei case as follows:
1. Wei should reimburse the money to the local commission for discipline inspection;
2. The commission for discipline inspection will start an investigation on him;
3. The case will be used to warn officials.
According to the CCP Regulations on Party Discipline Sanctions, art. 59, and to the Implementing Measure of the CCP Leading Cadres' Criteria for Clean Governance art. 14 (3) Wei should be expelled from the party. In practice, this is not easy to do. Not (just) because of guanxi.
The real problem in this case is:
has the Audit Office settled the 7000 yuan bill or not?
has the Audit Office settled the 7000 yuan bill or not?
(other problems would be: proving that the receipts are genuine, the signature is not forged and Wei actually received the massage and used the hotel rooms; knowing who the other people with him were, whether such acts took place during service or in his free time, etc.)
Art. 14 (3) of the Clean Governance Criteria punishes the use of public funds or the unit's credit cards to reimburse personal expenditures 用公款报销或者用本单位的信用卡支付应由个人负担的费用.
If the Audit Office has not settled the bill, one may argue that the actual use of public funds has not taken place, therefore Dongyang government has not suffered any loss. In theory Wei may get away with a warning 警告...
