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University accused of using student IDs to get credit cards

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A university in Xian secretly used the personal information of at least 11,000 students to apply for credit cards as a return favour for a bank loan, the mainland's media reported.

And when exposed, reports said, the university's propaganda chief threatened to detain a reporter investigating the case.

Xidian University, an electronic engineering institution in the capital of Shaanxi province , applied for the credit cards at a city branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China from April to July without informing the students, according to People's Daily.

Bank staff said they 'wholesaled' the cards to students with the 'agreement and help' of the university.

The so-called help involved passing on personal information and faking students' signatures.

The deal was a return favour to the bank for granting loans for campus expansion.

Few students knew their personal information had been used.

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