Our office news (reporter Yuhong Guo, Xia Chen): Yongzheng Sun, the head of the Palou Village Committee in Tongyuan Township, Yongdeng County, and Yuantiger Su, the head of the Xinzhai community in that village, misused their official conveniences while assisting the government with the "Reverting Farmland to Forest" project. They fabricated rosters and divided 70,000 yuan of subsidy among themselves. On May 31st, the court of Yongdeng County found the two guilty of professional embezzlement and sentenced them respectively to three years in prison, suspended for four years, and two years and six months in prison, suspended for three years. The prosecution protested, arguing that the judgment was wrong, the law was misapplied, and the sentence was inappropriate. On September 15th, when Yongzheng Sun and Yuantiger Su, who had been released on bail, went to the criminal court of Lanzhou Intermediate People's Court to stand trial, a prosecutor from the Lanzhou People's Procuratorate proposed during the trial that the two should be sentenced to more than five years in prison for embezzlement. The case will be announced regularly.
From 2003 to 2008, Yongzheng Sun, the head of the Palou Village Committee in Tongyuan Township, Yongdeng County, and Yuantiger Su, then head of the Xinzhai community, noticed during the process of reverting farmland to forest that there were 225.6 mu of wasteland and gullies outside the approximate range of the farmers' fields provided by the forestry department. Greed overtook the two, and they decided to falsely report these areas of wasteland and gullies as converted farmland area. They privately engraved seals, falsely used the names of 16 villagers including Li and Tan, and claimed multiple subsidies for converting farmland to forest for themselves. From 2004 to 2006, the two obtained a total of more than 90,000 yuan of falsely reported subsidies for converting farmland to forest. After deducting more than 19,000 yuan for public welfare expenses paid for the village, Yongzheng Sun and Yuantiger Su embezzled more than 44,000 yuan and 26,000 yuan respectively. Their continuous acts of embezzling public funds incited the anger of the villagers, and more than 20 people jointly petitioned the township government. In June 2008, after a local forestry specialist talked to the two, they returned more than 27,000 yuan of ill-gotten gains. On February 25, 2009, after being investigated for suspected economic crimes, the two fully refunded the involved ill-gotten gains, Sohu Space.