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Kristin Huang

A Chinese father desperate to find his missing adult son forged a wanted poster with a 500,000 yuan (HK$565,000) reward in the hope of digging up clues to his whereabouts, Chinese media reported.
The “wanted man” posters that were put up recently on the streets of Chengdu, Sichuan province, claimed police were hunting Lin Feiyang who was linked to Russian terrorists and had disappeared after returning to Wuhan from Moscow, the Chengdu Commercial Daily reported on Monday.
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The poster gave a detailed description of the “suspect”, and urged anyone with information about Lin to come forward.
Sources who gave accurate information would be rewarded 100,000 yuan and anyone who could bring the man to police would get 500,000 yuan, the poster claimed.
While the person named in the wanted poster was real, the poster was fake, the newspaper reported.
Forging such official documents is also a criminal offence.

Lin’s father, Lin Shaoqing, has in the past put up similar posters in other cities, but they were always quickly removed by the authorities, said Wuhan police, who told Lin’s father to stop but to no avail.
Lin Feiyang was forced by his father to study university prep courses in Moscow in August 2015 but returned to Wuhan four months later then disappeared, the report said.
“From November 26 that year, we lost contact with Feiyang and our relatives in Moscow could not find him either,” Lin’s mother, Li Hua, said.
“All we know is that Feiyang returned to Wuhan, according to his phone records,” Li said.
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The father later spent a year travelling around the country in search of his son, without success, the report said.
Out of desperation, Lin Shaoqing, resorted to forging the wanted poster offering large rewards.
Before his disappearance, Feiyang often phoned his mother, complaining that Russian was a difficult language and that studying abroad was too expensive.
Li said she disagreed with her husband about sending their son to Moscow when Feiyang so strongly opposed it.
The couple divorced late last year after too many quarrels over their son disappearance.


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Desperate father forges ‘wanted’ posters to find missing son

Passers-by read the fake ‘wanted man’ posters in Chengdu. Photo: Handout

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Despite police warnings, he continues to post them in cities around the country in a desperate search for clues


Desperate father forges ‘wanted’ posters to find missing son

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}Despite police warnings, he continues to post them in cities around the country in a desperate search for clues

Despite police warnings, he continues to post them in cities around the country in a desperate search for clues