Demystifying the corrupt price under the LED street light
February 02, 2023
The official Weibo of the procuratorial organs of Xiangcheng and Kunshan in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province recently released news, and three responsible persons of two street lamp management offices in Xiangcheng District and Kunshan City were investigated; the original street lamp management office of Hangzhou Electric Power Bureau of Zhejiang Province The subject of Wu Keling’s bribery was also first in the People’s Court of Jianggan District, Hangzhou.
"Behind the small street lamps, there are often tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of huge investments." An industry insider said that the daily renovation and maintenance of 100,000 street lamps in large and medium-sized cities, electricity expenses, advertising and other aspects are hugely collected. Support, from design bidding to acceptance and maintenance, almost every link has to spend money to clear. At the same time, the luxury street lights that have been driven by hundreds of millions of yuan are often lit up, and they often fall down with a group of "small officials and great greed."
The reporter's investigation found that the street lamp management department, which was originally considered to be the "Qingshui Tuen Mun", had frequent corruption cases in recent years, and the case value was tens of millions of yuan. For example, the former accountant Xu Yuming of the Street Light Management Office of Hangzhou Electric Power Bureau, one person on the street lamp electricity charges 5.88 million yuan; Hubei Jingmen City Street Lamp Administration former director Shen Zhongbin, deputy director Zhang Xiaojun "joined" corruption and bribery more than 5.5 million yuan.
Street lamp corruption makes a village committee "one pot"
According to incomplete statistics, in the past two years, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hebei, Jiangxi and other places have exposed street lamp corruption cases, involving more than 30 cadres and staff members in the municipal administration, construction departments and township village committees.
The Jianggan District Court of Hangzhou City found that Wu Shuiling, the head of the Engineering Department of the former Street Light Management Office of Hangzhou Electric Power Bureau, helped the sales of lamps, street lighting and other enterprises to increase product procurement and use, or to integrate product features into the tendering scheme. It was requested to successfully win the bid, and received 1.16 million yuan in bribes and 1 gold bar worth more than 10,000 yuan. Wu Shuiling was sentenced to 10 years and 6 months in prison.
The one who paid a bribe of 900,000 yuan to Wu Shuiling was Yu Mo, the head of a local decorative lighting company in Hangzhou. In the bidding of a number of lighting projects, the lighting company has drawn a number of affiliated companies to participate in the bidding. Wu Shuiling, who has recommended bidding company finalists and prequalification powers, has become a key public relations target. Wu Shuiling confessed that he helped Yu Mou or related enterprises to bid, no matter who won the bid, the project was under the responsibility of Yu.
According to industry insiders, as cities around the world compete to carry out “lighting projects”, the construction of luxury urban streetlights with over 100 million yuan is very common everywhere. At the same time, the local villages in the new rural construction in the "lighting project", although the amount of investment is relatively low, but also the case, nest cases of "locusts" breeding, often "street lights built up, cadres fell down."
In Dongzhuangzi Village, Huailai County, Hebei Province, solar street lights were installed in 2012. Five village cadres received bribes of more than 150,000 yuan from street lamp contractors. The village committee members were almost "one-pot". Two villages in Fengrun District of Tangshan City installed 195 solar street lights. The price of each street lamp was 5,900 yuan, and the actual price was 4,500 yuan. The difference of more than 200,000 yuan was divided by the village party secretary and the village committee director of the two villages.
Cost nearly a million lights, the contract price can do two or three million <br> <br> street lighting project in lighting levels, covering certain areas of professional and technical requirements, energy requirements, use a large amount of raw materials, but the quality specifications Everything varies greatly, so many streetlight projects are easy to breed all kinds of "locusts" from initial design to daily maintenance.
- Do high prices and divide the difference. Using the difference in material quality, raising the cost of supply to obtain the difference in profits has become an "open secret" in the industry. Shenmen Bin and Zhang Xiaojun, urban lighting bureaus in Jingmen City, Hubei Province, adopted a registered shell company to create a false supply contract to raise the price of goods. In the past four years, the total price difference was nearly 5 million yuan, of which the largest one took up to 2.3 million in cash. yuan.
A person in charge of the street lighting construction supervision industry in Chongqing told the reporter that after the installation of different raw material street lamps, there is generally no difference in appearance, but the actual quality and price are very different. The higher the price of the high-end luxury street lamps, the greater the moisture. For example, the price of a lamp with a power of 1 watt for LED street lamps ranges from three to five yuan to more than twenty yuan. The thickness of the cast iron and the galvanized layer are also different. The price of commonly used copper core and aluminum core cable is two or three times different. "A street lamp with a cost of nearly 10,000 yuan can achieve a contract price of 20,000 to 30,000. The difference will be divided by the supervisor, the contractor and the contractor."
"A little bit of cultural elements, you can declare 'designed design', which is the unspoken rule to greatly raise the price of street lamps." Liu surnamed contractor told reporters that as long as the communication with the competent authorities in advance, the cultural elements are required to be highlighted in the design of street lamps. Local characteristics, so that enterprises can "special" landscape lights in the name of high patents, design fees, etc., even if such street lights are "high price", but the cost constitutes "reasonable evidence", it is difficult to find out the problem.
- Inflated materials, virtual electricity bills. In addition to the luminaires, light poles and distribution boxes on the road surface, the street lamp system also has underground cables and high-cost electricity expenses in daily use. Relevant management personnel can find the space for “hands and feet”. The former city management director of Fugong County, Yunnan Province, has won the collusion with the supplier in the construction of urban street lamps. The required 4-core copper core cable is 4,000 meters, and the contract purchase is 4,600 meters. The 600-meter cable line is falsely reported. Ten thousand yuan.
The Hangzhou Electric Power Bureau Street Light Management Office, which is responsible for the maintenance and management of more than 150,000 street lamps in the urban area of Hangzhou, has a monthly electricity bill of up to 7 million yuan to 9 million yuan. From 2007 to 2013, the original accountant Xu Yuming took the form of tampering with bank statements, and accumulatively increased electricity charges to accumulate 5.88 million yuan for the purchase of real estate and investment. Xu Yuming confessed that the unit has hundreds of monthly electricity bills. No one except the accountant has checked the documents according to Zhang. The virtual electricity bill is not seen from the books.
Industry insiders told reporters that street light bulbs, lampshades and other lamps are consumables. It is very common to use damage during use. It is also a foolish account to see how much the lamps are broken during maintenance.
- Bidding, payment layer card. After the completion of the road lighting project won by a company in the plain area of Xinxiang City, Henan Province, the planning and construction bureau of the plain new district of the owner unit was pushed away from the completion acceptance, and the project amount of tens of millions of yuan could not be settled. The person in charge of the company paid 100,000 yuan to Zhang Yilong, deputy director of the bureau at the end of 2013, and the project was immediately accepted.
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