China has always been known as the "infrastructure demon" in the world, and our infrastructure capabilities and engineering quality are also recognized internationally.However, in 2017, a major event occurred that caused great concern to the Chinese people

China has always been known as the "infrastructure demon" in the world, and our infrastructure capabilities and engineering quality are also recognized internationally.

However, in 2017, a major event occurred that caused great concern to the Chinese people.

After a rigorous investigation, although 19 suspects were ultimately arrested and punished by the law, it is still impossible to recover the tens of millions of losses caused earlier.

The reason why China has invested heavily in building a bridge connecting Hong Kong, Macau, and Zhuhai in Guangdong is essentially to promote economic and cultural exchanges between the two special administrative regions and the mainland.

The construction project that lasted for 8 years finally came to an end in 2017, just as everyone was eagerly anticipating the successful completion and opening of the bridge, an accident occurred.

One day in May 2017, the Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption received a secret report, in which the informant claimed to be an insider in the industry and revealed a shocking news to the staff of the commission.

At this point, if quality issues are found with the bridge, it will not only face significant economic losses for the country, but also undermine the long-term efforts of the workers who overcame various difficulties in building the bridge.

When it comes to the cost of concrete testing reports mentioned by the informant, it is necessary to mention the importance of the quality of concrete for an engineering building.

Concrete is one of the three main materials in engineering materials and the most important compression component among them.

For example, concrete is like the bones of the human body. If a person's bones experience problems such as osteoporosis, they will experience a situation where their body cannot move normally.

The same principle applies to architecture, which may make a project that has been completed for several years become a "Tofu-dreg project" that is vulnerable to attack.

Finally, after a rigorous investigation, investigators found problems in the concrete quality inspection report, and 21 suspect involved in the case were also arrested one after another.

Among these people, there are young people in their early twenties and executives in their fifties and sixties, but they are all involved in this case coincidentally. Due to the large number of personnel involved in the case, the prosecution also put in a lot of effort in trying the case and clarifying the facts. After some twists and turns, the truth of the matter gradually surfaced.

Which is true, one concrete report and two reports? Which is false?

In order to ensure that the project can be completed with quality and quantity on schedule, they also specially built a laboratory to test whether the various building materials used in the project meet the quality requirements of the project.

This laboratory is located in the northern part of Lantau Island, and as one of the three main materials, concrete quality testing naturally needs to be conducted here.

However, because the concrete quality inspection has very high technical requirements and is directly linked to the project quality, Civil Engineering and Development Department decided to outsource this important inspection project to professional institutions.

In this way, after a fierce competition, Jiake Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd. was finally selected and became the leader of this project.

However, the human heart is greedy, and in the face of the pressure of interests and power, all 21 relevant staff members have gone astray.

In 2016, when the staff of the Civil Engineering and Development Department audited the concrete quality test report, they accidentally found that there were two different reports on some concrete samples.

Although concrete quality testing involves a certain degree of professionalism, it is impossible for the same sample to undergo two tests in less than a minute and present two completely different results.

The quality testing of concrete is mainly to test its strength, as concrete is a load-bearing component.

However, accurate data cannot be tested when the concrete has just been produced and has not yet set, and it needs to be sampled and processed under special conditions for a period of time before using the equipment used to test its strength.

In this way, it means that the same sample can only undergo one pressure strength test with professional equipment, and it is impossible to repeat the test on the same sample, which will lose the comparison effect with other samples.

However, in the report issued by Jiake Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd., there was a situation where the same sample had two reports. Is this a work error or something else?

If it was a work accident, how could an engineering quality inspection agency mix a sample that had just been tested and output a report 1 minute ago with an untested sample and immediately test it again?

Or is it that different batches of samples mistakenly appeared together due to work errors?

However, there is a huge difference in the duration of concrete samples from different batches that can be tested using professional equipment, which may vary by several days or even tens of days, and such things seem irreversible.

In this way, it seems that the possibility of replacing the problem report with a fake sample qualified test report is increasing.

It's just that the case involves a large number of people, and how to prove the fact that the report has problems has become a major challenge.

The prisoner's dilemma tests humanity, and the alliance of interests eventually becomes scattered

In order to break through the psychological defense line of these suspect as soon as possible, relevant personnel thought of using psychological tactics - prisoner's dilemma.

The main test of the prisoner's dilemma is humanity, which is a test of humanity for the interest alliance composed of the 21 suspect.

The so-called prisoner's dilemma is to completely separate these suspects waiting for interrogation, making them unable to communicate with each other and forming a communication barrier.

However, this alone can only make it impossible for suspects to "collude", and further "increase" is needed to achieve the effect of Psychological warfare.

The interrogators will tell the suspects that if they remain silent and refuse to confess, they will also receive at least one year in prison.

If both parties have a good attitude of pleading guilty, then both parties will be sentenced to corresponding sentences in accordance with the law.

So it seems that the suspects can maximize the collective interests as long as they have a tacit partial confession.

And in this way, the illegal benefits they obtained in this case will also be preserved due to insufficient evidence that could not be pronounced.

However, the beauty of the 'prisoner's dilemma' lies in the third rule.

If someone takes the lead in admitting the crime and another person continues to refuse to confess, the suspect who confesses to the crime will be released due to their own confession of innocence.

As for the other suspect, he will be tried according to law because the evidence chain has been supplemented completely, and he will be sentenced severely because he refuses to plead guilty.

In this way, everyone wants to become the person who has been acquitted, and their alliance of interests becomes loose.

When committing crimes, as long as they tie everyone's interests together, they become chained grasshoppers, and everyone will unite and protect this alliance of interests.

However, in the face of the 'prisoner's dilemma', people's hearts begin to loosen, and the alliance of interests may seem the closest, but it is also the easiest to break through.

Alliances that can be linked by interests often end up losing to people's hearts and humanity.

In the end, the No. 5 suspect took the lead in admitting the Corpus delicti during the trial, which also brought breakthrough progress to the trial of the case.

At this point, the entire case has been brought to light, and the conflicts of interest between these individuals have also surfaced.

In the end, 19 out of the 21 individuals involved were prosecuted and sentenced to 8 to 32 months in prison.

Considering that some of the personnel involved in the case were grassroots staff, and the reason for committing the crime was partly due to the pressure of higher-level leaders, lenient treatment was given to these personnel involved.

A false alarm but still a suspense, who should bear the huge losses?

How much loss will it cause if rework is needed on the problematic part?

Who will bear the losses?

Fortunately, due to the problem occurring less than a year ago, the proportion of problematic concrete in the entire project is also very small, and it is almost certain that it will not cause substantial damage to the bridge.

Just because of a momentary greed, colluding with others to fake and ignore national affairs just to cover up so-called work mistakes, such behavior is also despicable.

Moreover, among the staff members of Jiake Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd. involved in the case, two others cleverly used their names to defraud the relevant units of nearly 2 million Hong Kong dollars in this fraud case.

This series of behaviors all demonstrate the serious problems that exist in this company, as these people dare to cheat on important national infrastructure projects simply because of their so-called "face saving" and "convenience".

So will there be more serious and abominable behavior in other places?

The extra 58 million spent is to reassure the people and also to show those who are trying to cover up some things with some shameful means in the dark what the cost is.

Although ultimately the 5800 will still be paid for by the state, we should also know what the overall situation is and what it means to be honest and upright.

epilogue

A little selfishness has caused the country millions of losses, and even some losses cannot be measured in money.

The alliance of interests among these criminals is so disgusting, disregarding the overall situation for their interests, and ultimately losing to humanity.

Prisoner's dilemma: Those who are trapped are prisoners, those who are trapped are greedy, and those who break through are the hearts of the people.

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