Traffic official facing bribery charges
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A FORMER Beijing traffic official is awaiting trial on charges of accepting bribes to help others get car plates, according to the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday.
Song Jianguo became head of the capital’s traffic management bureau in 2007.
In 2011, the capital introduced a car plate lottery to curb vehicle numbers, with no more than 20,000 plates on offer each month.
In December 2012 there were claims that Song’s son and his secretary were selling plates to car buyers unsuccessful in the lottery, according to the Xinhua-affiliated Economy & Nation Weekly.
Later, the 21st Century Business Herald alleged that the two were either cheating the lottery system or directly selling plates they had obtained from unknown sources. A plate would fetch up to 200,000 yuan (US$31,980), it said.
There were reports that an official investigation had begun into the pair’s activities and that Song had also been taken in for questioning.
Police denied it at the time but, since then, Song has not been seen in public.
On December 24, 2012, the Beijing government removed Song from his post, without giving a reason.
Last year, on August 27, the city’s Party disciplinary authority said that he had been expelled from the Party and was the subject of a criminal investigation.
There were no further details about what has happened in relation to his son or secretary during that time.
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