Life for police officer who helped with exam
By Yang Jian |
May 20, 2011, Friday
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A POLICE department director in northwest China has been sentenced to life imprisonment over power abuse: Selling residency certificates to students seeking to move to remote areas so they would have a better chance of gaining a place at university.
Yang Xiaodong, a police director in a remote town in Altay City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, issued hukou, or permanent residency, to more than 100 examinees from outside the region in return for more than 1.41 million yuan (US$216,717) from 2005 to 2008, yesterday's Procuratorial Daily reported.
Students in China's remote areas enjoy preferential treatment as they don't need as high a score as others in the national college entrance exam to pass.
Fu Zhihong, Yang's wife and an official in the city's archives bureau, also got a jail term of seven years for assisting her husband and taking 419,000 yuan in the illegal trade.
In 2005, Yang issued local residency certificates to six relatives of Chen Houlai, a local retired official. Chen's relatives were from Henan Province. Yang received 27,000 yuan in return from Chen.
The next year, Chen took another 12 examinees from outside Xinjiang to Yang to get permanent residency. Chen paid Yang more than 140,000 yuan.
As the number of clients grew, Yang began making fake residency certificates.
Some senior officials in the city's education bureau were also found to be fabricating graduation scores in return for money to assist Yang's illegal business.
Wu Xinhua, vice director of a Altay high school, was jailed for five years for taking 406,000 yuan. In return, Wu enrolled 115 students from other provinces at the high school so they could take the national exam there.
Yang Xiaodong, a police director in a remote town in Altay City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, issued hukou, or permanent residency, to more than 100 examinees from outside the region in return for more than 1.41 million yuan (US$216,717) from 2005 to 2008, yesterday's Procuratorial Daily reported.
Students in China's remote areas enjoy preferential treatment as they don't need as high a score as others in the national college entrance exam to pass.
Fu Zhihong, Yang's wife and an official in the city's archives bureau, also got a jail term of seven years for assisting her husband and taking 419,000 yuan in the illegal trade.
In 2005, Yang issued local residency certificates to six relatives of Chen Houlai, a local retired official. Chen's relatives were from Henan Province. Yang received 27,000 yuan in return from Chen.
The next year, Chen took another 12 examinees from outside Xinjiang to Yang to get permanent residency. Chen paid Yang more than 140,000 yuan.
As the number of clients grew, Yang began making fake residency certificates.
Some senior officials in the city's education bureau were also found to be fabricating graduation scores in return for money to assist Yang's illegal business.
Wu Xinhua, vice director of a Altay high school, was jailed for five years for taking 406,000 yuan. In return, Wu enrolled 115 students from other provinces at the high school so they could take the national exam there.
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