Top Renmin University official detained in corruption probe
Renmin student admissions chief intercepted in Shenzhen as he tried to flee country, report says
A senior staff member at Beijing's prestigious Renmin University is being investigated for corruption after being detained while trying to flee the country.
Legal Evening News, a Beijing newspaper, quoted Wang Jian, secretary of the university's disciplinary committee, as saying that Cai Rongsheng, head of the student admissions office, was intercepted by Shenzhen customs.
But he did not confirm online postings claiming that Cai was using a fake passport and was implicated in a scandal involving hundreds of millions of yuan.
Another university staff member, Hu Juan, executive dean of the School of Education, had been sacked and was also under investigation, the report said. Hu, 41, was secretary to the former president of the university, Ji Baocheng, before she was promoted to senior teaching and management posts.
A spokesman from the university's information office confirmed that the party's graft watchdog had been investigating Cai since last week, but it did not give further details.
It is unclear whether the report is linked to an audit by an inspection team of the Communist Party's Central Discipline Inspection Commission in the summer. The auditors found "weaknesses in the autonomous enrolment of students and other aspects", according to a summary report by the graft watchdog.