School official in China makes small fortune selling rotting vegetables to pupil’s canteen
Whistle-blower claims official pocketed up to 8,000 yuan a week
A school official in southwest China has been accused of making tens of thousands of yuan from buying spoiled vegetables and selling them to the school’s cafeteria to make lunch for pupils, according to a local newspaper.
The senior official of a village school in Qiaojia county in Yunnan province bought vegetables that had gone bad from a wholesale market in nearby Zhaotong city and sold them to the school for almost 10 times as much as he paid for them, according to an internet whistle-blower, the Chuncheng Evening News reported.
The county’s education bureau issued a statement on Tuesday, confirming that the bureau was investigating the matter since April after receiving a tip-off.
The investigators found that the official had falsely reported the cost of the vegetables in the school’s accounts official and pocketed the difference, which amounted to more than 46,000 yuan (HK$54,000), according to the statement.
Photos posted online by the whistle-blower show rotten vegetables such as cabbages and mouldy peanuts.