County chief accused of tapping phone calls
By Zhang Xuanchen |
November 19, 2010, Friday
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OFFICIALS in Xiaxian County in Shanxi Province have accused the county head of listening in to complaints made during private phone conversations - by tapping phones and then ordering police to put supposed troublemakers in jail.
Wu Dongqiang, the Xiaxian Education Bureau chief, sent two short messages to other officials accusing the county head, Li Jinxue, of taking bribes worth 200,000 yuan (US$30,113) and abusing his power in order to build a villa for his father on October 25, Xinhua news agency reported?yesterday.
Wu got the response two days later - he was detained for libel and his wife was taken to the police station for interrogation. A group of 10 armed policemen also searched Wu's house and confiscate his bankbook, ID card and some cash.
When authorities in Yuncheng City, which governs Xiaxian County, learned of Wu's detention, they ordered officials to drop the case and release the couple.
Wu told reporters Li had asked the chief police officer, Sun Hongjun, to lend him a set of professional equipment to track people's cell phone records and tap into conversations on October 22. Wu's messages, which were sent on his wife's mobile, was detected by Li on October 27, one day before their house was raided.
One official who declined to be named said Li had abused his position of power to direct police to root out whistleblowers several times before. For example, Li once ordered police to search almost every photocopying shop in the county in a bid to find who had printed a letter of complaint about him.
Wu Dongqiang, the Xiaxian Education Bureau chief, sent two short messages to other officials accusing the county head, Li Jinxue, of taking bribes worth 200,000 yuan (US$30,113) and abusing his power in order to build a villa for his father on October 25, Xinhua news agency reported?yesterday.
Wu got the response two days later - he was detained for libel and his wife was taken to the police station for interrogation. A group of 10 armed policemen also searched Wu's house and confiscate his bankbook, ID card and some cash.
When authorities in Yuncheng City, which governs Xiaxian County, learned of Wu's detention, they ordered officials to drop the case and release the couple.
Wu told reporters Li had asked the chief police officer, Sun Hongjun, to lend him a set of professional equipment to track people's cell phone records and tap into conversations on October 22. Wu's messages, which were sent on his wife's mobile, was detected by Li on October 27, one day before their house was raided.
One official who declined to be named said Li had abused his position of power to direct police to root out whistleblowers several times before. For example, Li once ordered police to search almost every photocopying shop in the county in a bid to find who had printed a letter of complaint about him.
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