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Official sacked over lavish banquet
By Li Qian |
April 22, 2013, Monday
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AN industrial park Party boss in Jiangsu Province got fired yesterday after he was seen kneeing on a dining table and apologizing to angry people who caught him and other government officials at a lavish banquet.
Zhang Aihua, the Party secretary of Binjiang Industrial Zone in Taizhou City, and at least 30 officials were caught having expensive dishes and liquors in the park's reception center last Friday, China News Service reported today.
There were four tables piled with high-end cigarettes, premium liquors, and rare dishes. A whistleblower estimated that each table would cost at least 10,000 yuan (US$1,612), the report said.
The whistleblower notified local residents who besieged the officials in the banquet room and condemned them for corruption. To seek retreat, Zhang knelt on the table and said with a loudspeaker: "I am wrong. Please forgive me. You can ask me to do anything if you let us go."
The scene was videotaped on a mobile phone and posted on the Internet, attracting many hits.
Taizhou authorities held a meeting on Sunday night after the video went viral and decided to strip Zhang of his position, the report said.
Zhang Aihua, the Party secretary of Binjiang Industrial Zone in Taizhou City, and at least 30 officials were caught having expensive dishes and liquors in the park's reception center last Friday, China News Service reported today.
There were four tables piled with high-end cigarettes, premium liquors, and rare dishes. A whistleblower estimated that each table would cost at least 10,000 yuan (US$1,612), the report said.
The whistleblower notified local residents who besieged the officials in the banquet room and condemned them for corruption. To seek retreat, Zhang knelt on the table and said with a loudspeaker: "I am wrong. Please forgive me. You can ask me to do anything if you let us go."
The scene was videotaped on a mobile phone and posted on the Internet, attracting many hits.
Taizhou authorities held a meeting on Sunday night after the video went viral and decided to strip Zhang of his position, the report said.
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