Official investigated after TV show
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A SENIOR urban management official in Zhabei District has been suspended after appearing in a television program that seemed to show him being rude to an illegal street vendor, authorities said yesterday.
The official, identified only as Zhou, is being investigated for alleged graft following accusations from the unlicensed fruit seller, surnamed Zhong, the Zhabei District Urban Management and Law Enforcement Bureau said yesterday.
According to a report broadcast on Shanghai Television, Zhou and other urban management officials in the district frequently turned a blind eye to the operations of unlicensed street vendors in return for bribes.
Zhong was quoted as saying that she had bribed Zhou in the past, but that this year he had turned down her offers of kickbacks and instead mistreated her.
Zhong said that she has been selling fruit and umbrellas illegally near the Xinqipu Department Store in Zhabei since 2013.
The area is home to several other unlicensed vendors, the report said.
The TV showed four officials talking to Zhong by her stall and then pushing over her table. The woman claimed she was being specifically targeted and said that other illegal vendors had not been harassed.
When Zhong and a TV reporter complained to Zhou at the Beizhan residential community’s urban management and law enforcement center, the official was rude, the report claimed.
When they asked why the illegal vendor had been “unfairly treated,” Zhou said it was “none of their business.”
Zhong claimed she gave Zhou cigarettes, tea and public transport cards worth about 6,000 yuan (US$970) between July and October last year.
Zhou responded by saying: “You have such a good memory ... you can give them to whoever you like, now get out. You have no right to come here.”
The urban management bureau did not say whether it was investigating any of the other officials seen in the TV program.
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