「官员、银行联手侵吞6000万存款，村民维权被判刑（2025.11.06）」截至11月6日，重庆市奉节县永安镇的数十名村民，已在中国农业银行奉节夔州路支行连续坚守了三周。他们不是在等待取款，而是在讨要一笔高达六千多万元的巨额存款——这笔钱，原是他们在1997年为配合三峡工程建设而失去土地的征地补偿。在过去的二十多年间，这笔资金仿佛凭空“消失”，而村民的漫漫讨款路，却成了一部充满暴力与悲剧的维权史，多名村民因此被殴打、关押，甚至被判刑，但巨款至今分文未回。
事件的根源，要追溯到1997年。当时，因三峡工程奉节新县城的建设，永安镇原十里村、桂井村、白马村的数千亩土地被当地征收。据村民透露，当地政府曾口头承诺每亩给予7000元赔偿。然而，接下来的操作却彻底违背了程序和承诺。时任奉节县委书记刘本荣等人在未经村民同意的情况下，私自将这笔补偿款存入了永安镇的农业银行等四家银行。直到1999年，这笔本该用于安家立业的征地款，才以远低于承诺价的金额，通过存折的形式发放到村民手中。然而，村民发现这些存折徒有其表：它们既无本金，也无利息，形同废纸，根本无法取出任何款项。两年后的2001年，当地政府更进一步，采取了强制收缴手段——以每个存折9954元的价格，并以限制小孩入学等方式作为威胁，强行收走了部分村民的存折。另一部分没有交出存折的村民，至今仍分文未获。当他们前往银行追问存款下落时，得到的答复令人震惊：银行行长告知，这笔征地款已经被某位县领导转走，至于具体是哪位领导，则被行长以“秘密”为由而拒绝透露。与此同时，当地官员则冷酷的宣称：“土地是国家的，补偿归政府所有。”然而，村民们驳斥道，他们的土地早在1981年便已分配到户。
在过去的二十多年里，村民们从未放弃，但他们的维权行动，迎来的却是持续不断的打压与暴力侵害。他们不仅没有拿回属于自己的补偿款，反而多次遭到警察和政府人员的殴打及关押，至少有5名村民在这期间被判刑。据村民透露，即便是几位六旬老人，也未能逃过被公职人员以“脱去衣裤、作老虎凳”等方式羞辱和虐待。
打压在近年更是升级。2024年6月，邓维碧、李绳杰、杨金风等六人前往北京上访，途中被奉节县政府派出的截访人员抓走，其中包括现任奉节县公安局长兼副县委书记熊锦望。据村民描述，六人随后被关进了北京丰台区的一处“黑监狱”并遭到暴力对待：李绳杰被恐吓至大小便失禁；邓维碧头部被击，牙齿脱落、听力受损；杨金风手指骨折，伤情触目惊心。
回到这场已持续三周的维权行动，面对村民的质问，涉事银行仍旧推诿，甚至以暂停营业为由规避责任。而当地政府则派出大量工作人员与警察到场“维稳”。那笔消失的六千万元存款，不仅是村民失地后的唯一保障，更是延续二十余年的权力侵害的明证。村民的维权之路，依旧漫长而艰难。
Officials and Bank Collude to Embezzle 60 Million Yuan in Deposits — Villagers’ Fight for Justice Ends in Prison Sentences (Nov. 6, 2025)
As of November 6, dozens of villagers from Yong’an Town, Fengjie County, Chongqing, have been standing outside the Agricultural Bank of China’s Kuizhou Road branch for three consecutive weeks. They are not there to withdraw money—they are demanding the return of more than 60 million yuan in missing deposits. The funds were originally land compensation issued to them in 1997, after their farmland was seized for the construction of the Three Gorges Project. Over the past two decades, the money has seemingly “vanished,” and the villagers’ long struggle to reclaim it has turned into a tragic story of violence and persecution. Many have been beaten, detained, or imprisoned, yet the missing millions have never been recovered.
The origins of the case date back to 1997, when thousands of mu of farmland belonging to Shili, Guijing, and Baima villages in Yong’an Town were expropriated for the relocation of Fengjie’s new county seat. According to villagers, the local government had verbally promised compensation of 7,000 yuan per mu. However, what followed blatantly violated both legal procedure and official promises. Then–Fengjie County Party Secretary Liu Benrong and others allegedly deposited the compensation funds into several banks, including the Agricultural Bank of China’s Yong’an branch, without the villagers’ consent.In 1999, the villagers finally received passbooks that supposedly represented their land compensation, but the amounts recorded were far below what had been promised. Worse still, when villagers tried to withdraw their funds, they discovered that the passbooks were meaningless—no principal, no interest, and no access to any money. In 2001, the local government went a step further: it forcibly reclaimed some villagers’ passbooks at a fixed price of 9,954 yuan each, threatening to bar their children from attending school if they refused to comply.Those who refused to hand over their passbooks have never received any compensation. When they went to the bank to inquire about their missing deposits, they were told that the funds had been transferred away by a county leader—the bank manager refused to name who, citing “confidentiality.” Local officials, meanwhile, coldly asserted that “the land belongs to the state, and the compensation belongs to the government.” The villagers countered that their farmland had been contracted to individual households in 1981, long before the expropriation.
For more than two decades, the villagers have refused to give up. Yet their pursuit of justice has been met with relentless suppression and violence. Not only have they failed to recover their lost compensation, but they have also endured arbitrary beatings, detentions, and imprisonment. At least five villagers have been sentenced to prison. According to witnesses, even elderly villagers in their sixties were stripped, tied to “tiger benches,” and tortured by officials.
The repression has only intensified in recent years. In June 2024, six villagers—including Deng Weibi, Li Shengjie, and Yang Jinfeng—traveled to Beijing to petition the central government. They were intercepted by Fengjie authorities, including current county police chief and deputy Party secretary Xiong Jinwang, and detained in a “black jail” in Beijing’s Fengtai District. Villagers say the six were brutally beaten: Li Shengjie was terrorized to the point of losing control of his bowels; Deng Weibi suffered head injuries, lost teeth, and partial hearing; Yang Jinfeng had his fingers broken.
Now, as this latest protest enters its third week, the bank continues to dodge responsibility—closing its doors and claiming to be “temporarily closed”—while the local government has dispatched large numbers of police and officials to “maintain stability.” The vanished 60 million yuan is not just the villagers’ lost livelihood after losing their land—it is evidence of more than two decades of systemic abuse of power. The villagers’ struggle for justice continues, though the road ahead remains long and perilous.