Chapter 188 Severe Accountability
Just as Principal Zeng and Shen Yanchun were making their plans, a joint investigation team composed of relevant departments such as education and science and technology knocked on Principal Zeng's office.
Principal Zeng didn't know the other people, but the person accompanying him was Han Hui, the head of the Jiangyang Province Education Department. Principal Zeng realized that the person was no ordinary person, so he immediately stood up and greeted him warmly.
"It is an honor to have you here to guide our work..." Principal Zeng began with a welcome speech. Han Hui waved his hand and spoke: "I am here today to investigate the thesis..."
"Welcome, welcome!" Principal Zeng forced himself to cheer up and took everyone to the round table conference room next door to sit down, feeling very nervous.
Shen Yanchun was so scared that he could hardly walk. His brain was congested and lacking oxygen. He could no longer hear the sounds around him and could only hear his own breathing and heartbeat.
"Tell me what the thesis matter is." Han Hui's face remained calm, and it was impossible to tell whether he was happy or angry.
President Zeng immediately began to complain: "Leaders, Jiangzhou University has worked hard to win this project. We will arrange it..."
After talking for three minutes, Principal Zeng expressed everything he thought. He said that as a member of the team, Lu Shan's contribution should belong to the team, and he was doing it for the good of the school.
Tian Mo interrupted Principal Zeng's speech and asked Shen Yanchun to explain the situation.
Shen Yanchun stuttered as he spoke. He was not Principal Zeng. This was the first time he had seen such a situation. He spoke unsteadily and his brain short-circuited to the point that he just repeated Principal Zeng's words.
"Those are all my lines!" Principal Zeng was anxious. Shen Yanchun was such a traitor. He spoke in the same way as before, and others thought they had rehearsed their lines!
And it's the same lines, even the roles are not separated.
Two minutes later, Tian Mo finally interrupted Shen Yanchun's speech. No one wanted to hear the same words twice.
"Stop for a moment. We are not here to listen to your explanations today! The investigation team has already informed Qin Chu and you of the opportunity to speak. It is to test your conscience. Now it seems that there is no need for this!" Tian Mo took out the red-headed document and read it directly.
"It is tentatively decided to dismiss Zeng Mingxiang and Shen Yanchun from their posts... Both of them will be relieved of all their duties and will be subject to follow-up investigations after leaving their jobs. If they have violated the criminal law, they will be sent to judicial authorities for handling!"
Zeng Mingxiang was stunned and Shen Yanchun peed his pants!
The punishment was so severe, and it was just the beginning. They thought it was just a warning, a serious reprimand or something, or even just keeping him in office for observation. They didn't expect it to come to this.
"I did that out of public interest, for the development of the school, not for myself!" Zeng Mingxiang complained directly. The investigation team was not there to listen to their excuses, so they took them away for individual interrogation.
Seeing this, Shen Yanchun urinated again, and the whole room was filled with the smell of urine. He also started crying. The investigation team couldn't help but despise this guy. He wanted to be the dean with this kind of mentality.
Principal Zeng and Shen Yanchun were so panicked because no one can withstand investigation and no one can be completely clean. If there is no investigation, there will be nothing wrong, but if there is an investigation, there will definitely be something wrong.
The current situation is that they will not leave until the problem is found, so their subsequent consequences will definitely be even worse than what is announced. How can they not panic?
The investigation team sealed off the laboratory of the School of Materials and Chemistry overnight, and all equipment and experimental data were sealed.
The next day, members of the Materials and Chemical Group were summoned for individual questioning, but Zhang Lingxi was not on the list and was not summoned.
The students who went to help after Zhang Lingxi left were also not summoned.
A handyman doesn't even have the qualifications to make mistakes.
Shen Yanchun insisted that he was unaware of the publication of the paper, and so did Principal Zeng. However, they could not deny the subsequent operations.
These two people have also thought about it, the worst that can happen is mismanagement.
Depriving Lu Shan of his academic achievements can be justified as a consideration for the school's development. As for intentional academic fraud, that is truly unacceptable.
"As a discipline leader, can't you understand that sub-papers are falsified?" Tian Mo obviously didn't believe it.
Shen Yanchun's upper and lower teeth chattered: "Lu Shan's material is too advanced. It's normal that I don't understand it. I still need to learn more..."
"Everyone else has already told the truth. Your stubbornness will only aggravate your crime. The Materials Chemistry Team said that you participated in a meeting to discuss stealing Lu Shan's research results."
"..."
Principal Zeng's problem is even more serious. Not only did he fail to report the situation when he knew about it, he even forcibly deprived people of their achievements. After the incident occurred, instead of trying to deal with it, he also moved people up and down to muddy the waters.
From being ignorant at the beginning to actively participating in the end, he was not wronged.
In addition to academic fraud, the investigation team also found that the two had problems with the whereabouts of experimental funds and falsely reported projects to defraud experimental funds.
Zeng Mingxiang also had a bigger problem, which was the embezzlement of collective assets.
Jiangzhou University has a long history and has many school-run enterprises. The predecessors of those enterprises are all products left over from the infrastructure construction period after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
As a result, after Zeng Mingxiang came, he saw that the factory had good operating performance and tried to make it bankrupt, and then accepted some funds to acquire the factory.
There are also some factories with good technical foundation and certain key technologies, and he also does this.
As a result, Zeng Mingxiang was charged with additional crimes including loss of state-owned assets, operating by unfair means, malicious bankruptcy, malicious competition, and embezzlement of public funds... Embezzlement of public funds means that Zeng Mingxiang used his position as principal to withhold the school's funds and, instead of distributing them in a timely manner, used them to invest in projects and earn dividends from them.
Despite a host of charges, Zeng Mingxiang still fantasized that he was fine, after all, there were so many people behind him.
Unfortunately, the nature of this case was so serious that everyone was arrested without leaving any behind.
Zeng Mingxiang and Shen Yanchun must bear criminal responsibility, and the other members of the materials chemistry team will be given warnings, demerits and other penalties. Although these people were asked to do so by their leaders, they knew about the incident but did not report it and accepted benefits from the school, so they are accomplices, so these members still need to be punished, but just enough.
"Where is Tan Ming? Have you contacted anyone?" Every member of the materials and chemistry team was asked the same question, but no one answered. Tan Ming seemed to have disappeared in an instant.
As the project leader, Tan Ming has participated in many experimental projects. His confession played an important role in the sentencing of Shen Yanchun and Zeng Mingxiang, not to mention that he is also an important member of this case.
Controlling Tan Ming became the most important task.
Where did Tan Ming go?
He ran away.
Ever since the incident was reported, Tan Ming knew that the truth would eventually be revealed, so he suggested going to South-South Weekend to write an article to muddy the waters. Then he took the opportunity to go to Shenzhen, and then to Hong Kong City to find his girlfriend who was studying at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Before leaving, Tan Ming took away all the preliminary data of the experiment, passed through the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and entered Hong Kong City, then went from Hong Kong City to Sawadika, and then boarded a plane in Sawadika and went directly to the United States.
The early experimental data were not obtained by the School of Materials Chemistry itself, but were based on Lu Shan’s ideas and data.
Although it is only preliminary data and is far from Lu Shan’s results, Tan Ming believes that its value is enough to save his life!
He was very busy during the few days in the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, busy contacting the middlemen who had run away and busy contacting the next buyers.
At the beginning, Tan Ming's communication path was not smooth. This paper involved fraud and academic misconduct, which had already spread to the United States. This was a groundbreaking achievement and the whole world was paying attention.
So when Tan Ming said he was going to run away and take the information with him, no one believed him. They all thought he was bragging. What genuine stuff could a counterfeiter have?
Tan Ming begged desperately, asking for a chance to take a look, but no one paid any attention.
At this time, Tan Ming contacted a professor of materials science at the University of Pennsylvania, where he had been an exchange student and had performed well.
Thanks to this relationship, Professor Lawrence agreed to take a look. Even if Tan Ming had committed academic fraud, he was immediately shocked by the results.
Although I only read a little bit of it, it was real and specific research data, and the principles, processes, and results were all recorded very clearly.
Professor Lawrence immediately agreed to Tan Ming's surrender.
Are you kidding me? What do you call this? This is called someone offering you a pillow when you doze off.
The University of Pennsylvania has very strong semiconductor science, and they are naturally very concerned about new materials.
They still haven't fully digested Tan Ming's short essay and are having a headache.
Tan Ming even sent over the detailed scientific research content.
However, Tan Ming was also smart. He only gave out a small part of the money. The rest was the foundation of his livelihood, and he would not just take it out like that.
As soon as he got off the plane, Tan Ming took a deep breath of the free and sweet air of the United States. He could never go back to Xia Country, and this would be his home from now on!
Professor Lawrence came to the airport in person to pick up Tan Ming because he was afraid that someone would rob him on the way. After all, the security in the United States is very poor, and it is normal for anyone to be robbed.
"Dear Professor Lawrence, we meet again!"
"Dear Ming! It's been many years since you left the University of Pennsylvania. Are you doing well now?" Lawrence asked even though he knew the answer.
Tan Ming cursed in his heart, what a bullshit, if it was good, why would he run to the United States? He was just like a dog that had lost its home.
After the two chatted for a while, Lawrence finally got to the point: "Welcome to the University of Pennsylvania to see me. Have you ever considered staying here to do research?"
"I couldn't ask for more." Tan Mingcai didn't think so. He yearned more for the prosperous big cities on the east and west coasts. Pennsylvania was indeed a bit lonely.
Jiangzhou University learned that Tan Ming had fled to the United States.
The school called him countless times and sent him countless text messages and emails.
He has not read any of them.
The School of Materials Chemistry of Jiangzhou University became anxious and quickly sorted out the laboratory information to see which ones had been taken away by Tan Ming.
(End of this chapter)
