Jining, May 11th (Reporter Jin Sen, Correspondent Leng Xijin) - During a teacher recruitment exam held in Qufu City, Yang and three others organized candidates to cheat using wireless radio equipment. They were caught by the police during the exam. On the 11th, I learned from the Qufu Court that the main culprits, Yang and Kong, were convicted of illegally obtaining state secrets and were sentenced to two years of probation in the first trial. Liu and Zhang were accomplices with minor criminal circumstances, and thus were not held criminally responsible.
The court found that on June 25th, 2009, during a public teacher recruitment exam held in Qufu City, Yang and Kong conspired to transmit test answers to participants for profit. Before the exam, Yang met four candidates through a relative's introduction and collected a deposit of 20,000 yuan. On the morning of June 25th, Yang led the four candidates to a private room in a hotel across from the examination site and handed over the cheating equipment to them. Kong brought Liu and Zhang, who carried a wireless radio transmitter, to the same hotel room. One of the four candidates sent the questions via wireless radio to Kong, who was responsible for finding others to answer the questions and then transmitting the answers back to the four candidates. Yang and Kong left the scene one after another during the exam. After receiving reports from the public, the police quickly located Liu and others using instruments and arrested Liu and Zhang while they were transmitting answers. Later, Yang and Kong were also captured. The set of eavesdropping and photography equipment used, along with a laptop, were seized on the spot. Relevant departments determined that the "General Knowledge Test Questions" before the end of the exam were classified as secret-level state secrets.
The court believed that the defendants Yang, Kong, Liu, and Zhang illegally obtained state secrets through theft, and their actions all constituted the crime of illegally obtaining state secrets. In the joint crime, Yang and Kong were the principal offenders, each sentenced to two years of probation. Liu and Zhang were accomplices with minor criminal circumstances, and thus were not held criminally responsible. The presiding judge stated that if Yang and Kong's cheating behavior in this case had led to the cancellation of the exam or disrupted the exam order, causing losses to innocent candidates and resulting in serious consequences, the sentencing standard would have been raised to 3 to 7 years, rather than merely being sentenced to probation.