7 people sent to prison for aiding exam cheats
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THE ringleader of a gang that helped students in the city of Panjin, northeast China’s Liaoning Province, to cheat in the national college entrance exam has been jailed for two-and-a-half years for stealing state secrets.
Liu Min was found guilty at Xinglongtai District People’s Court of heading a seven-member gang, which from 2011-13 made more than 400,000 yuan (US$65,000) from the sale of tiny earpiece receivers that enabled exam-takers to hear answers to the test questions, Shenyang Evening News reported yesterday.
A second member of the group, former teacher Wen Heng, was sentenced to 18 months in prison, the report said. A third person was named as Yan Luchuan, and both he and the four unnamed associates were jailed, though no other details were provided.
Under Chinese law, people convicted of stealing state secrets are usually sentenced to up to three years in prison, though this can rise to seven years for the most serious offenses.
The gang profited by selling the earpieces for between 10,000 and 15,000 yuan, or about double what they cost on the Internet. How they got access to the examination paper, however, was not mentioned in the report.
Police were alerted to the scam in May 2013, about a month before the exams were due to start, when they read an online post on the subject.
The poster, surnamed Wang, said he used one of the earpieces to cheat in the 2012 exam.
When questioned by police, Wang said his parents bought the device for 40,000 yuan from Yan. Based on Wang’s information, police tracked down and arrested Yan, who also led them to ringleader Liu, the report said.
Any students found to have cheated in the examination will be expelled from university — if they have already embarked on a degree course — and will be banned from re-sitting the test for three years, it said.
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