Fakes claim Zijin losses
By Echo Wang |
September 4, 2010, Saturday
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POLICE have detained five villagers who pretended to be victims or who exaggerated their losses in July's massive toxic spill in Fujian Province to con money out of the polluting Zijin mining group.
The company has stopped the payout of compensations to fishers in Yongding County along the Tingjiang River, because too many of the pretenders tried to get a cut of the payout, China Business News reported yesterday. Yongding County alone has claimed 300 million yuan compensation (US$44 million).
Dayuan Village in the county has no more than seven fishermen, but the villagers claimed a 24.4 million yuan loss in its fishing industry for 18 fish-pond owners.
After environmental authorities required the company to pay for the tons of fishes killed in the Tingjiang River by its toxic spill, the number of fishermen dramatically surged, the report said.
Many villagers accused local officials of embezzling the compensation already paid. A villager who refused to be named said seven of the bogus fishermen in the compensation-claim list were relatives of Shen Sipin, the head of Dayuan Village, and two were Party boss Liu Yonggui's son and nephew.
Zijin mining group has sent out an investigation team of its own to Yongding County.
Yongding's police chief You Yongzhang said he has received a thick stack of whistle-blowing letters about the compensation con and police have detained five fake victims.
The company has stopped the payout of compensations to fishers in Yongding County along the Tingjiang River, because too many of the pretenders tried to get a cut of the payout, China Business News reported yesterday. Yongding County alone has claimed 300 million yuan compensation (US$44 million).
Dayuan Village in the county has no more than seven fishermen, but the villagers claimed a 24.4 million yuan loss in its fishing industry for 18 fish-pond owners.
After environmental authorities required the company to pay for the tons of fishes killed in the Tingjiang River by its toxic spill, the number of fishermen dramatically surged, the report said.
Many villagers accused local officials of embezzling the compensation already paid. A villager who refused to be named said seven of the bogus fishermen in the compensation-claim list were relatives of Shen Sipin, the head of Dayuan Village, and two were Party boss Liu Yonggui's son and nephew.
Zijin mining group has sent out an investigation team of its own to Yongding County.
Yongding's police chief You Yongzhang said he has received a thick stack of whistle-blowing letters about the compensation con and police have detained five fake victims.
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