corruption

43 Banned for Life as China Tackles Corruption in Football

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NEWS

The move comes following a two-year probe that uncovered a series of online gambling, match-fixing, and bribery cases involving 120 matches, 128 criminal suspects, and 41 football clubs.

Fan Yiying

Mining Company in Shanxi Concealed 43 Deaths, Says Probe Report

A government task force has taken action against 28 suspects, while further investigations have been launched into 16 officials accused of corruption.

Ye Zhanhang

Jiang Zuer

‘Embarrassing’: 10 Chinese Snooker Players Banned For Match-Fixing

The snooker global governing body's investigation concluded that two senior players pressured younger players into fixing matches for betting purposes.

Li Xin

Top Sports Official Removed in Soccer Corruption Crackdown

The government’s campaign to clean up corruption-tainted Chinese soccer is reaching the highest levels of sports governance.

China Slaps Soccer Personnel With Lifetime Ban Over Match-Fixing

The Chinese Football Association levied penalties relating to a controversial game in another push to regulate the troubled soccer sector.

Former Chinese Soccer Coach Probed Amid Anti-Graft Crackdown

The sudden downfall of Li Tie, a high-profile figure in the country’s soccer history, has fueled speculation about a new round of crackdowns in the sport.

How Foreign Students Are Cheating China’s College Admissions System

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FEATURES

In Vietnam, students are using connections and fake documents to access lucrative Chinese government scholarships. Many are woefully underqualified.

Travis Vincent

Former Teacher, Mysteriously Fired, Discovers 20-Year Impostor

After Sun Cunliang lost his teaching job on dubious grounds, another man used his name and teaching qualification to secure a position at the same school.

Zhang Chaoyan

Chinese Ride-Hailing Giant Didi Fired 70 Staff for Graft in 2020

Some of the cases, which involved accepting bribes, seeking benefits from suppliers, and selling company resources for profit, were turned over to police.

Disgruntled Plaintiff Kills Judge Who Refused to Be Bribed

After the Hunan High People’s Court judge returned $3,000 and a gold bracelet that had been hidden in a fruit gift box, the suspect got a job as a cleaner in her residential compound and attacked her with a knife.

Cai Xuejiao

Empty Graves, Fake Records, Graft: The Dead Tell Tales in Rural China

Police are probing a racket in Shandong in which local officials dug up bodies and burned them to obtain cremation certificates for families who’d buried their loved ones in secret.

Yuan Suwen

Convicted Killer’s Release on Medical Parole Sparks Backlash

Authorities in Inner Mongolia are investigating how the son of an official was sentenced to 15 years in prison, only to be released without serving time, supposedly due to medical issues.

Yuan Ye

Former Journal Editor Sentenced to 10 Years for Bribery

The editor-in-chief of a monthly journal affiliated with the state-run People’s Daily newspaper accepted over 8 million yuan during his decades-long tenure with the publication.

Anti-Corruption Watchdog to Crack Down on Illegal Dual Citizens

Though Chinese law does not allow dual citizenship, corrupt officials and political dissidents have used additional passports to flee the country.

Unfinished Vanity Projects a Debt Trap for Guizhou County

A documentary has cast a spotlight on dozens of ostentatious building projects in Dushan that have plunged the county over $5 billion in debt.

Authorities Uncover Cover-Up in Hunan Fireworks Factory Blast

Government officials and company employees hid dead bodies to minimize the reported number of casualties in a blast that killed 13.

Li You

Henan Court Denies Request for Info on Corrupt Officials

A former journalist had sued a local public security bureau after it refused a freedom of information request to reveal public officials involved in bribery.

4,200 Chinese Officials Punished for ‘Techan’ Corruption

Many cases involved public servants buying ‘special local products’ with public funds, often to give as ‘gifts’ to business and government connections.

Senior Official Prosecuted for Accepting $64 Million in Bribes

Xing Yun, the former vice chairman of Inner Mongolia’s congressional standing committee, becomes the ‘fattest tiger’ nabbed to date under Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign.

Tang Fanxi

Chinese Policymaker Probed Over Dual Citizenship

Local authorities have confirmed that Hebei Provincial People’s Congress delegate Sun Xiang is illegally a citizen of both China and St. Kitts and Nevis — a notoriously secretive tax haven.