Agency to sue Sina over 'staff' big spender
By Wang Qingchu |
January 14, 2012, Saturday
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A GOVERNMENT office plans to sue Sina.com for wrongly listing a woman who boasted of her lavish lifestyle as an employee of the agency.
Officials with the Beijing Liaison Office of the northeast Jilin City told The Beijing News yesterday that work was seriously affected by claims made by Gao Yue on Weibo.com, China's leading microblogging site, which is operated by Sina.
Agency officials have called in police to try to trace Gao.
Weibo account holders have the option of including their employer in their profile. Staff with the microblogging site are responsible for confirming the accuracy of this information.
Gao, claiming to be a Beijing Liaison Office employee, published photographs of luxury handbags and shoes she said she owned and shots of her driving a sports car.
This led to claims among web users that there was corruption in the government agency.
The liaison office dismissed Gao as an attention seeker, saying she was neither an employee nor a relative of its director, Xinhua news agency reported.
"I hope no misunderstanding was caused," an official surnamed Li with the liaison office told The Beijing News.
"Our salaries strictly follow government regulations. My own monthly wage is less than 3,000 yuan (US$475.62)."
Sina admitted Gao's employment details were false and that its employees did not follow protocol in checking details.
It apologized to the liaison office and said the staff responsible for the oversight would have salary deductions.
Sina has removed the "V" which denotes a verified user from Gao's microblog page.
Since the scandal broke, Gao has deleted all her tweets and changed her screen name.
Gao's tweets indicated she frequently flew to Hong Kong and Macau for shopping trips.
She once tweeted: "Being an employee of the Beijing Liaison Office of Jilin is so well-paid!"
Officials with the Beijing Liaison Office of the northeast Jilin City told The Beijing News yesterday that work was seriously affected by claims made by Gao Yue on Weibo.com, China's leading microblogging site, which is operated by Sina.
Agency officials have called in police to try to trace Gao.
Weibo account holders have the option of including their employer in their profile. Staff with the microblogging site are responsible for confirming the accuracy of this information.
Gao, claiming to be a Beijing Liaison Office employee, published photographs of luxury handbags and shoes she said she owned and shots of her driving a sports car.
This led to claims among web users that there was corruption in the government agency.
The liaison office dismissed Gao as an attention seeker, saying she was neither an employee nor a relative of its director, Xinhua news agency reported.
"I hope no misunderstanding was caused," an official surnamed Li with the liaison office told The Beijing News.
"Our salaries strictly follow government regulations. My own monthly wage is less than 3,000 yuan (US$475.62)."
Sina admitted Gao's employment details were false and that its employees did not follow protocol in checking details.
It apologized to the liaison office and said the staff responsible for the oversight would have salary deductions.
Sina has removed the "V" which denotes a verified user from Gao's microblog page.
Since the scandal broke, Gao has deleted all her tweets and changed her screen name.
Gao's tweets indicated she frequently flew to Hong Kong and Macau for shopping trips.
She once tweeted: "Being an employee of the Beijing Liaison Office of Jilin is so well-paid!"
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