Scores of Officials Punished for Letting Killer Skip Prison and Get Government Job
Some 84 current and former officials have been punished for their involvement in the case of a convicted murderer who never served out his prison sentence. Photo: VCG
The Chinese Communist Party’s anticorruption watchdog is punishing some 84 officials involved in a high-profile case in which a convicted murderer never served out his prison sentence and went to work as a village head and stole government funds.
Authorities in North China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region in September launched an investigation after a decades-long campaign by the mother of the slain Bai Yongchun, who claimed her son’s killer, Batumenghe, never spent a day of his 15-year sentence behind bars.
Leaked Documents Reveal Chinese Government’s Corruption, Bureaucrats’ Incompetence
Internal documents from the Inner Mongolia government revealed that local bureaucrats were incompetent and corrupt.
The government of Hulunbuir city arranged ten inspection teams composed of senior officials to probe different government departments and organs from late March to late May.
Later, the inspection teams finished 11 reports and sent them to the municipal government. A trusted source shared these reports with The Epoch Times recently.
The inspection teams reported that each government bureau spent large sums of money without a proper decision process since 2013. Some departments failed to keep proper records of their assets. Officials also spent government money for their personal travel and other expenses, the reports revealed.