Cctv newsFor six defendants, including Zhang Wuya and Lu Shilong, who organized cheating in the 2017 MBA postgraduate examination, the court has sentenced them to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from 4 years to 1 year and 8 months respectively, and imposed fines. Then what are the electronic devices they used to cheat in the examination? What kind of "black industrial chain" is hidden behind it?
Cheating tool
This khaki square looks like an eraser at first glance, but when the reporter turns it around, he will find that it is a display with an LCD screen. Such a lady scarf, if not deliberately displayed by the reporter, you would never have found that it had an LCD embedded in it, and these are the answer receivers used by criminal gangs such as Zhang Wuyou and Lv Shilong to organize candidates to cheat.
In the court, the reporter also saw the earphone used by Zhang Wuya and other defendants to organize candidates to cheat. It was about the same size as soy beans. After trying to put it in the ear, the reporter found that even if there was no hair cover, it was difficult for outsiders to detect it.
Judge Cao Xiaoying, who is in charge of hearing the case, told the reporter that the contact earphone and the display disguised as rubber and scarf are a complete set of cheating equipment. The earphone can listen to the answers, and if the cheating candidates don’t hear clearly, the display can also be viewed.
Cheating in exams is organized into groups to form interest chains.
In interviews with many cheating cases in organizational examinations, the reporter found that at present, cheating in examinations has shown a trend of gangs and specialization. The division of labor among members of criminal gangs is clear, and the illegal income of crimes is also divided according to prior agreement and proportion.
According to the judge, at present, organizing cheating in exams has shown a trend of gangs and specialization. They generally rely on education and training institutions, and some are full-time responsible for purchasing cheating equipment and organizing cheating in exams; Some are full-time responsible for online recruitment of cheating candidates and offline training; Some are responsible for stealing test questions and recruiting gunmen to provide answers. For example, in this postgraduate exam cheating case tried by Haidian Court, the defendant Zhang Wuya, as the principal offender, is the organizer of the whole exam cheating case, and he is responsible for purchasing cheating equipment; Defendants Zhang Zongqun and Zhang Xiayang are his direct downline, and Lv Shilong is Zhang Xiayang’s downline. The three of them are responsible for recruiting cheating candidates, distributing cheating devices purchased by Zhang Wuyou to students, and organizing training for students to use.
While the gang committed crimes and the division of labor was clear, the interests were also divided at different levels. Zhang Wuyou charged Zhang Zongqun and Zhang Xiayang 20,000 yuan for each candidate, 10,000 yuan in advance and 10,000 yuan after passing. The fees charged by Zhang Zongqun and Lu Shilong to cheating students range from 30,000 yuan to 45,000 yuan.
At the beginning of this year, in the case of cheating in the qualification examination for primary and secondary school teachers tried by Fangshan court in Beijing, the criminal chain was more clear. Three defendants were specifically responsible for stealing test questions from the examination room, two of whom pretended to sign up for the examination, one sneaked the test papers from the examination room, and one hid in the toilet to meet them. The cost was 7,000 yuan. The equipment for sneak shots of test papers is these two mobile phones with specially modified cameras.
Cheating in exams, dishonesty, illegal crimes must be investigated.
Cheating in exams is a serious dishonest behavior, which directly undermines the fairness and justice of national exams. Such behavior is not only a violation of discipline and law, but also a criminal offence.
One of Article 284th of China’s Criminal Law stipulates: whoever cheats in the national examination prescribed by law shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also or only be fined; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years and shall also be fined.
Whoever provides cheating equipment for others to commit the crime mentioned in the preceding paragraph and illegally sells or provides examination questions and answers to others shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the first paragraph.
Those who replace others or let others take the national examinations prescribed by law instead of themselves shall be sentenced to criminal detention or public surveillance and shall also or only be fined.
The judge specially emphasized that cheating in organizing exams is a crime, and it also constitutes a crime to take the national exam instead of others. According to statistics, since 2016, the courts in Beijing have concluded more than 30 cases of taking exams instead of others, mainly focusing on the national postgraduate entrance examination, the national adult college entrance examination, the motor vehicle driver examination and other types of exams. All the candidates were sentenced to criminal detention ranging from four months to one month and fined.
The judge explained that what constitutes the crime of cheating in the exam must be the national exam prescribed by law.
In addition to being suspected of constituting a crime and being investigated for criminal responsibility, cheating in the exam will also be given administrative punishment. For example, according to the provisions of the Measures for Handling Violations in National Education Examinations issued by the Ministry of Education, the first punishment for cheating in the exam is that the score of the subject is invalid; Seriously, the results of all stages and subjects that they signed up for the exam are invalid. Cheating by using relevant equipment to receive information; If someone else takes the exam instead of or in place of the candidates, such as the college entrance examination, it may be suspended for one to three years; If the circumstances are particularly serious, they may be suspended from participating in various national education examinations for one to three years.