Focus interview： How to ensure the safety of ＂security certificate＂ fraud
Cctv news(Focus Interview): Special operations are unfamiliar to many people, but they are actually closely related to our safety production. Such as electrical work, welding and hot cutting, high-altitude work, refrigeration and air conditioning work, coal mine safety work, etc. are all special operations. Because these jobs are professional and dangerous, the Law on Work Safety specifically stipulates that special operators of production and business units must be trained in special safety operations in accordance with relevant state regulations and obtain corresponding qualifications before they can take up their posts. However, driven by interests, chaos such as making and selling fake special work permits also occurs frequently.
At the beginning of 2023, many departments such as emergency management in Xicheng District of Beijing conducted joint law enforcement inspections on construction sites. It mainly checks the authenticity of the special operation certificate held by special operators and whether the special operation certificate is within the validity period. In the process, law enforcement officers found a strange thing.
Yang Weiguo, captain of the Third Team of the Comprehensive Law Enforcement Brigade of the Xicheng District Emergency Management Bureau, said: "One of them, Bai Moumou, was found, and his special operation certificate was not found on the official website of the Emergency Department or the national safety production examination platform and WeChat official account platform of the mobile phone, and there was no information. The strange thing is that when we scanned this certificate with WeChat, a website interface similar to the official website of the Emergency Department popped up. "
Bai Moumou holds a special operation certificate for welding and hot cutting. When law enforcement officers log on to the "National Work Safety Examination" platform and scan the QR code of the electronic photo of Bai Moumou’s certificate, it shows that "the number of the certificate file is wrong, please contact the issuing authority for verification". However, the "page" query popped up by scanning the QR code of the certificate through the WeChat "sweep" function shows that Bai Moumou is qualified for "welding and hot cutting operations" and the certificate is within the validity period. At first glance, the "page" is almost identical to the official website page.
Liu Zhenyuan, Deputy Procurator-General of Beijing Railway Transport Procuratorate: "When comparing the real official website with the fake one, you can first see the website address. The real official website is gov.cn, and at the same time, there will be the authentication of the party and government organs in front of the search engine. After entering this website, you can find that the real website can provide electronic certificate download, but the fake website does not have this function."
Law enforcement officers also verified with the issuing authority printed on the certificate, and finally confirmed that the special operation certificate held by Bai Moumou was a forged certificate.
Through these clues, law enforcement officers judged that the false certificate held by Bai Moumou was not a case. After the law enforcement officers imposed administrative punishment on Bai Moumou, they immediately asked the procuratorate to intervene in the case.
Special operation certificate is related to safety production and human life, and is also regarded as "safety certificate" for construction operation. So, where do these fake "safety certificates" come from? What links does this gray-black industrial chain include?
Shi Liang, deputy director of the Seventh Procuratorial Department of the People’s Procuratorate of Xicheng District, Beijing: "This criminal gang has formed a systematic feature with a clear division of labor among upstream, middle and bottom personnel. The most upstream is responsible for building fake websites, collecting information on the demand for counterfeiting, and handing it over to the criminals in the middle reaches to manufacture the documents of the entity. "
According to reports, the criminal suspect Sun Moumou is the most upstream. He first paid people to make fake websites, and then developed a number of agents to find and collect people who spent money to buy fake special operation certificates through online social software, online merchants and offline. By the person who is responsible for the false certificates, the false certificates are made and sent to the corresponding offline agents, and finally to the buyers.
The personnel who make fake certificates only need to fill in the identity information of the purchaser on the background management page of the fake website, and they will automatically generate a fake special operation qualification certificate, scan the QR code on the certificate, and open the fake official website. The name of the issuing authority, the validity period and the type of work information on the fake certificate are readily available.
According to the background data of the fake website opened by criminal gangs, more than 500,000 people pay attention to the website, and more than 19,000 people have purchased forged special operation certificates. The construction types cover 39 high-risk operations such as electric welding, aerial work, lifting and signaling.
In May 2023, the Beijing Public Security Bureau handled the case and went to several provinces to arrest and arrested more than a dozen criminal suspects who made fake websites.
For the downstream certified personnel, the middle-stream intermediary traders and the upstream counterfeiting sources screened out, the Beijing procuratorate took a classified and graded crackdown in the process of handling cases.
Although this special operation certificate counterfeiting gang has been cracked, are there still people with fake certificates? At present, there are more than 3,000 construction sites registered in Beijing. These sites are widely distributed and the construction workers are highly mobile. It is far from enough to quickly lock in those who hold false certificates. The Beijing procuratorate has developed and established a legal supervision model for cases involving special operation certificates for safety production, which connects the information of on-site construction workers in the housing and construction sector with the information of the certificate verification platform of the emergency management department and the housing and construction department.
After data comparison, more than 300 people suspected of holding false certificates in Beijing were finally found out. Multi-departments jointly enforced the law, quickly locked the construction sites where these people were located, rectified them, and eliminated potential safety hazards from the source. At the same time, relevant departments launched a clean-up of network information and fake websites.
Working with certificates for special operations is a guarantee for the interests of life, enterprises and the public, and at the same time it is also safeguarding its own legitimate rights and interests. The special operation environment is complex and risky, and the operators must be trained and obtain professional qualification certificates before they can take up their jobs. Special operations are required to be certified, enterprises have safety production norms, and laws have relevant hard and fast rules, but the behavior of manufacturing, selling and using fake special operations certificates is still repeatedly prohibited. Why are some people willing to take risks and do false certificates? Why did the "guarantee certificate" of safety production fall down one after another?
Person in charge of a construction site: "The wages for special operations are relatively high, such as the wages for welders should be from 500 yuan to 600 yuan for one day. Because of the heavy physical labor, scaffolders usually spend more than one day in 600 yuan, which is very different from ordinary workers. Ordinary workers should spend 200 to 300 yuan a day. "
The "gold content" of the special operation certificate is high. With the operation certificate, the salary will be greatly improved, which makes many people who do not have the conditions and cannot pass the exam willing to take risks to buy fake certificates.
Wu Junrong, deputy director of the Law Enforcement Industry and Trade Bureau of the Emergency Management Department: "The first hazard is that the risk of accidents is relatively high. These false certificate holders lack the knowledge and corresponding safety skills that they should know, and they can’t identify the hidden dangers around them, and they can’t rectify them. In addition, it is easy to violate the rules and regulations, and the probability of accidents is relatively high; The second hazard is to increase the difficulty of supervision and lay a potential risk for safe production. "
In recent years, accidents caused by illegal operations have occurred from time to time because employees hold false certificates of special operation certificates or fail to obtain certificates.
On November 21, 2022, a major fire broke out in the factory building of Kaixinda Trading Co., Ltd. in Anyang City, Henan Province.
Wu Junrong, deputy director of the Law Enforcement Industry and Trade Bureau of the Emergency Management Department, said: "The cause of this accident is that the relevant personnel of Kaixinda Company repeatedly violated laws and regulations in welding operations without obtaining the special operation certificate, which eventually led to the accident."
On April 17, 2023, a major fire accident occurred in Zhejiang Weijiali Industry and Trade Co., Ltd.
Wu Junrong: "After investigation, this company hired unlicensed personnel to conduct illegal welding operations, which ignited the surrounding paint and finally led to the accident."
In addition to the phenomenon of forging the operation certificate of special operations, there is another kind of operation certificate that is true, but the holder has not passed strict training and does not have the corresponding operation skills or safety knowledge. This phenomenon is called "false real certificate".
Wu Junrong: "The first category is true false certificates, which mainly refer to false certificates forged by criminals and cannot be found on the government’s inquiry website;" The second type of false certificate belongs to the false true certificate, which refers to the certificate obtained by practicing fraud during the training and examination, such as compressing the training duration during training, not training according to the outline, practicing fraud during the examination, or even cheating. "
The so-called "false real certificate" is mainly because there are still some outstanding problems in the safety technical training and assessment of special operators. For example, some institutions falsely publicize that the special operation certificate has been packaged and exempted from examination; Some training institutions do not teach according to the syllabus, and the training is fraudulent; Some examination institutions (including examination points) are lax in invigilation, regardless of examination and training, conniving at, participating in and even organizing candidates to cheat; There are also individual training and examination institutions that collude with each other to sell certificates, resulting in "false real certificates", that is, special operation certificates obtained by practicing fraud in training and examination, or even not taking part in training and examination, are circulating in the market.
Wu Junrong: "In recent years, the emergency management department has carried out ‘ Safety production training goes through the motions ’ Special rectification has rectified a number of unqualified safety production training institutions, examination institutions and examination points. "
In order to resolutely curb the chaos of obtaining evidence for special operation certificates, since September 2021, the Emergency Management Department and the Ministry of Public Security have jointly launched a nationwide special campaign to crack down on the manufacture and sale of counterfeit safety production certificates on counterfeit government websites, and concentrated on destroying a number of counterfeit dens for forged certificates, punishing a number of gangs that counterfeit government websites, and investigating a number of counterfeit personnel and enterprises.
In 2022, Jiuquan City, Gansu Province destroyed a criminal gang that forged and sold false certificates, arrested 20 suspects and seized more than 11,000 false certificates.
In 2022, Chongqing arrested a criminal gang that forged and sold false certificates, arrested 72 suspects and seized more than 50,000 pieces of false certificate information.
In 2021, Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province arrested a criminal gang that forged and sold false certificates, arrested 40 suspects and seized more than 40,000 false certificates.
At the same time, relevant departments have carried out special rectification for special operation certificate training institutions and examination points. There were 4,171 law enforcement inspection and training institutions in various places, 315 were eliminated and cleaned up, 299 were closed for rectification, and 2,445 were ordered to rectify; 2,213 examination institutions were inspected, 212 examination points were cancelled, 153 were suspended for rectification, and 997 were ordered to rectify. The chaos of training and examination was initially contained.
Special operation certificate, commonly known as safety certificate, is not only related to the safety of workers’ lives and property, but also to public safety. Safety certificates are all forged, how can we talk about safety in production? Frequent safety accidents have repeatedly warned us that special operations must be certified and standardized, so as to avoid accidents as much as possible. Therefore, on the one hand, it is necessary to strengthen the supervision of training and examination, and at the same time, all relevant departments should also strengthen the verification of special operations personnel. At the same time, people who want to engage in special operations should not be lucky. Special operations, special industries and special locations should be trained and collected according to regulations, which is responsible for everyone including themselves. After all, safety in production is greater than the sky.