From trying to leap out windows to fainting with fear ... how Chinese corruption suspects react when an inspector calls
Faint from fear, try to jump from window or just keep cool: officials react in all sort of ways when confronted by Beijing’s corruption investigators
Catching sight of a team of graft-busters can be a truly frightening sight if you are an official suspected of corruption – so much so you might try to jump from the nearest window, or faint with fear.
That’s how at least two such officials reacted when inspectors from the Central Commission for Discipline came calling, according to an article on the WeChat account of The Beijing News.
They were among a handful of cases in which anti-corruption inspectors turned up to meetings unannounced to take the officials into custody, most having no idea they were about to be detained.
Yang Weize, the now disgraced former Nanjing (南京) Communist Party secretary, was apprehended after being informed he needed to attend a meeting held by the Jiangsu (江蘇) provincial party committee.
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Some reports have suggested he was tipped off that he was the target of an investigation, and according to the News, he spent 15 minutes smoking in his office after calling other officials to confirm the meeting had been called.
Even so, he attended, and when he spotted the graft-busters tried to jump from a nearby window.