Fake graft inspector featured in newspaper owned by China’s supreme prosecutor
Man claiming to be from the CCDI sat with propaganda officials to discuss movie and his comments were published in a state-run paper
An impersonator claiming to be a graft-inspector from the Central Commission of Discipline Inspection tricked his way into appearing in a newspaper run by the supreme prosecutor.
A Wechat account affiliated with the CCDI on Tuesday warned the public to beware of fake graft-busters, adding that even the Procuratorial Daily, a mouthpiece of the country’s top prosecutor’s office, had been fooled.
A report by the newspaper last Friday quoted a man going by the name of Dong Enhou, who was ostensibly an inspector at the CCDI. The man had been sat alongside officials from the propaganda department and the top prosecutor’s office at a symposium to discuss an upcoming film about corruption.
“The movie has reflected real problems. Some departments don’t carry out the rules systematically and there is a power-money exchange. There are real lessons like this,” it quoted Dong as saying.
The symposium was held on October 31 and hosted by jcrb.com, which comes under the state-run Procuratorial Daily.
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The Wechat account affiliated to the CCDI said on Tuesday there was no such man in any of its departments and that his name did not match that of any of its retired cadres either.