Opinion | Local police chief accused of having affairs with dance troupe sisters

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Qi Fang, police chief of Wusu City in Xinjiang. Photo: screenshot from Wusu government's official website.

Published: 11:18am, 6 Dec 2012Updated: 12:46pm, 6 Dec 2012

A local police chief in Xinjiang is being investigated over claims that he had affairs with two sisters whom he had allegedly hired from a dance troupe, reported the Beijing News on Thursday. He is also accused of using police funds to rent a luxury flat to host the sisters.

The allegations against Qi Fang, police chief of Wusu, a city of 210,000 people in China’s northwestern Xinjiang province, surfaced online on Monday. Party discipline authorities in Xinjiang have since launched an official investigation, said the report.

According to the original article posted on Xinjiang’s popular online forum iyaxin.com , Qi hired the 31-year-old elder sister as a police officer five months after he became the police chief. She was promoted twice in March and June to vice-captain of the special police force, said the report.

The younger sister is now working as an auxiliary officer in the traffic police department.

Both sisters had previously worked in a cultural troupe, said the Beijing News.

But according to a police coworker the Beijing News talked to, the two sisters were promoted mainly due to their talent and work performance.

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