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Official suspended over tent scandal
Created: 2008-6-5 14:17:57
Author:Yang Jian
A COUNTY government in Shanxi Province yesterday suspended the director of its Civil Affairs Bureau who allocated nine quake-relief tents without government approval, a Beijing-based newspaper reported today.
Wang Kewen, director of the Civil Affairs Bureau of Wenxi County in Yuncheng City, faces further punishment after an investigation is concluded, the Beijing News said.
Wang allocated nine relief tents to workers building a rest home for the bureau on May 13. The workers' dorms were damaged by a storm on May 12, the day the earthquake struck, the report said.
People were highly critical that Wang had given out the tents since thousands of people were in need of shelter after the May 12 earthquake destroyed homes across a large region.
The county government has taken back the tents last Friday.
Other scandals involving relief tents had been exposed across the country.
In the quake-hit Shaanxi Province, three cadres have been punished for taking relief tents. They have received administrative warnings from the provincial government.
In Sichuan's capital city of Chengdu, an equipment store owner has been arrested for allegedly cheating the Red Cross and selling quake-relief tents as regular tents, previous reports said.
The county's supervisory commission said all relief materials should first be given to homeless quake victims, the elderly and the weak. The commission will severely punish officials and Party members who possess relief items without permission.
Wang Kewen, director of the Civil Affairs Bureau of Wenxi County in Yuncheng City, faces further punishment after an investigation is concluded, the Beijing News said.
Wang allocated nine relief tents to workers building a rest home for the bureau on May 13. The workers' dorms were damaged by a storm on May 12, the day the earthquake struck, the report said.
People were highly critical that Wang had given out the tents since thousands of people were in need of shelter after the May 12 earthquake destroyed homes across a large region.
The county government has taken back the tents last Friday.
Other scandals involving relief tents had been exposed across the country.
In the quake-hit Shaanxi Province, three cadres have been punished for taking relief tents. They have received administrative warnings from the provincial government.
In Sichuan's capital city of Chengdu, an equipment store owner has been arrested for allegedly cheating the Red Cross and selling quake-relief tents as regular tents, previous reports said.
The county's supervisory commission said all relief materials should first be given to homeless quake victims, the elderly and the weak. The commission will severely punish officials and Party members who possess relief items without permission.
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