College officials suspended in ID-theft probe

By Jane Chen | June 9, 2010, Wednesday |

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TWO college officials in central China's Hubei Province have been suspended from their jobs during a probe into an identification theft from a female student.

The investigation was launched after Lin Lin, a student from Hainan Province, claimed an unknown girl had stolen her ID to study at a Hubei college, Xinhua news agency reported.

Hubei education officials yesterday said the investigation discovered that a girl also surnamed Lin from north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region stole Lin Lin's identity in 2006 and went to Hubei University after failing to pass the entrance exam.

Lin then transferred to another school in 2007 and graduated two years later.

Both Hubei University's teaching director and Wuhan Polytechnic University's job guidance director failed to double check Lin's true identity while agreeing to the transfer. They are now suspended, the report said.

The real Lin Lin, now a senior student at Hainan University, didn't realize the theft until last month when the school asked her to check her academic information online before graduation.

She found the online record showed she had been enrolled in two schools under the same name and reported the matter to police and media.

Lin Lin said she was recruited by a Hubei-based school in 2005 but gave up the enrollment. She went to study at Hainan University the following year.

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College officials suspended in ID-theft probe

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