Reporter in cheap sale story is detained
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Police in Beijing have detained Liu Hu, a reporter with the New Express Daily based in southern Guangzhou City, on suspicion of creating and spreading false information.
No further details were disclosed by the Beijing police.
Police handcuffed Liu and took him from his home in Chongqing on Friday.
Computers and several bank cards, which had been revoked, were seized, his wife Qin Ling told Guangdong-based Southern Metropolis Daily.
Liu had previously accused Ma Zhengqi, deputy head of the State Administration of Industry and Commerce, of dereliction of duty when he was Party chief in Chongqing’s Wanzhou District.
Liu alleged on July 29 on his Weibo microblog that Ma approved the 2004 sale of a state-owned food and beverage firm to two officials for 1.7 million yuan (US$277,780) even though the firm’s net assets totaled 27.7 million yuan, the newspaper said.
The post was soon deleted but Liu later confirmed it was authentic.
China’s industry regulator didn’t say whether an investigation was carried out into the sale of the firm.
Meanwhile, the arrest of Zhou Lubao, a self-style online activist against official corruption, has been approved by prosecutors in Kunshan, a city in eastern Jiangsu Province, yesterday’s Beijing Times reported.
Police from Suzhou apprehended him on July 29 in Beijing after he had talked about breaking into the United States Embassy and carrying explosives to Beijing in a letter to Zhang Yuejin, police chief of Suzhou City.
Zhou wrote the letter as he thought he had been treated unjustly by police after he was accused of attempted blackmail, the newspaper reported.
Zhou is said to have threatened to post online articles about a Buddhist temple in Zhouzhuang in Kunshan hiring fake monks and cheating Buddhist followers unless the temple paid him 200,000 yuan.
Zhou was detained in 2011 and later released on bail. When bail was lifted last September he demanded compensation. Having had his claim rejected, he wrote the letter to Zhang, the newspaper reported.
Police say they are investigating Zhou in connection with 25 cases of extortion.
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