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By Li Luxiang |
July 14, 2009, Tuesday
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HE receives bribes, releases criminals, rapes women, visits prostitutes - and he is a powerful police officer.
Bai Yuling was a senior police officer in Bozhou City, east China's Anhui Province, before he was disciplined this January. Six of Bai's subordinates have also been detained.
As a senior police officer Bai had handled more than 6,000 cases from 1988 to last year, mostly concerning gambling, prostitution, fake drugs, and other offenses. Bai had freed nearly 10,000 suspects in exchange for bribes.
For Bai, the law-enforcing authority had long been turned into a money-collecting tool.
"He abused his power to accumulate wealth by all means. He is ready to serve anyone who gives him money," Luo Kunshan, a local anti-graft officer responsible for Bai's case was quoted as saying by Xinhua.
Extortion and threatening would ensue if someone refused to comply.
Bai would send several subordinates to "supervise" a newly opened restaurant three times a day, so as to bring the owner down to his knees.
Money is not the only thing Bai desires. Though one of Bai's duties is to eliminate prostitution, he himself had been on intimate terms with quite a few prostitutes.
Aphrodisiacs and pornography discs were also found in his office. His official position also enabled him to rape some young women with impunity.
It comes as no surprise that Bai enjoyed strong backing from some influential people.
Back in 2003 when Bai was first investigated by the local discipline authority, he was let off with a slap on his wrist. If anything, the past decade had witnessed his steady promotion.
He was the head of a police station, then the deputy head of police bureau, and after three counties combined into Bozhou, he was promoted again.
An investigator who was once responsible for looking into Bai's case was even quoted as saying, "Our head asked us not to continue with the probe."
We wonder how many officials like Bai are still out there, trampling the law, yet protected by powerful people.
Now that Bai is disciplined, we are looking forward to the naming and shaming of those who are engines of Bai's promotion.
We also need to be satisfied as to why it takes a supervision system 20 years to outlaw an official who is in every respect a criminal.
Bai Yuling was a senior police officer in Bozhou City, east China's Anhui Province, before he was disciplined this January. Six of Bai's subordinates have also been detained.
As a senior police officer Bai had handled more than 6,000 cases from 1988 to last year, mostly concerning gambling, prostitution, fake drugs, and other offenses. Bai had freed nearly 10,000 suspects in exchange for bribes.
For Bai, the law-enforcing authority had long been turned into a money-collecting tool.
"He abused his power to accumulate wealth by all means. He is ready to serve anyone who gives him money," Luo Kunshan, a local anti-graft officer responsible for Bai's case was quoted as saying by Xinhua.
Extortion and threatening would ensue if someone refused to comply.
Bai would send several subordinates to "supervise" a newly opened restaurant three times a day, so as to bring the owner down to his knees.
Money is not the only thing Bai desires. Though one of Bai's duties is to eliminate prostitution, he himself had been on intimate terms with quite a few prostitutes.
Aphrodisiacs and pornography discs were also found in his office. His official position also enabled him to rape some young women with impunity.
It comes as no surprise that Bai enjoyed strong backing from some influential people.
Back in 2003 when Bai was first investigated by the local discipline authority, he was let off with a slap on his wrist. If anything, the past decade had witnessed his steady promotion.
He was the head of a police station, then the deputy head of police bureau, and after three counties combined into Bozhou, he was promoted again.
An investigator who was once responsible for looking into Bai's case was even quoted as saying, "Our head asked us not to continue with the probe."
We wonder how many officials like Bai are still out there, trampling the law, yet protected by powerful people.
Now that Bai is disciplined, we are looking forward to the naming and shaming of those who are engines of Bai's promotion.
We also need to be satisfied as to why it takes a supervision system 20 years to outlaw an official who is in every respect a criminal.
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