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Top official鈥檚 love for golf led to downfall

A FONDNESS for golf was one reason for the downfall of a former senior official of a large state-owned Chinese enterprise who was expelled from the Communist Party last month for corruption, the Party’s graft-busting agency said yesterday.

Dozens of senior officials have been jailed for corruption since late 2013 when China declared war on graft.

Wu Shuyuan was a deputy general manager at BENEFO Corp, a leading mechanical engineering company based in the northern port city of Tianjin, until he was handed over to prosecutors in February following a Party-led probe into suspected graft.

The party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection listed forgery among Wu’s crimes, in giving a detailed explanation of his wrongdoings.

But it also singled out personal problems, saying he “many times accepted (invites) from others to play golf.”

Tales of corruption and officials’ high living, extravagant banquets and expensive rounds on golf courses, have led to complaints.

Golf courses also have a reputation as places where shady deals happen. In October, the party listed golf as a discipline violation as it tightened rules to stop officials engaging in corrupt practices.

The agency said Wu had, in a moment of contrition, twice gone to the door of the graft watchdog’s Tianjin office to “clearly explain his problems and seek leniency.”

“But he put his faith in luck, and in the end didn’t go in, missing an opportunity.”


 

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