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Detained for paying ‘surrogate’ to take test

By Zhang Peijia and Chen Huizhi | 00:01 UTC+8 July 27, 2017 |

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THE owner of a local education company has been detained for allegedly organizing people to sit national exams for others, police said yesterday.

The suspect, a man surnamed Wang, made about 270,000 yuan (US$40,000) from about 20 exams taken by surrogate exam-takers he hired, according to police.

Also netted were a woman surnamed Zhao who sat the exams for others and three people who paid for Wang’s service since 2016, police said.

Zhao, who was sitting the English exam of the Self-taught Higher Education Exams on April 16 this year in a venue in Yangpu District, was found on the site to be taking it for a registered test-taker surnamed Zhang.

“Not like all other exam-takers, the suspect finished answering all questions within 30 minutes and that caught the attention of the exam proctor who found out that she wasn’t the person on her exam ID paper and called the police,” said police officer Zhang Mingjun.

Based on confessions of Zhao, police soon found Wang, who was supposed to meet with her outside the school that day to pay her for taking the exams — three of them, with two already taken on April 8.

Zhao took about 4,000 yuan from Wang while Wang charged Zhang, the registered test-taker, about 20,000 yuan, police said.

Further investigation led to Wang’s arrest in June.

Wang confessed that he scooped up job application information of students of language studies online, called them and asked if they were willing to sit exams for others. Wang himself did it from time to time.

Zhao, for example, is a new graduate of English studies in a local university, and she told the police that she agreed to Wang’s offer because she was short of money for rent at that time.

Apart from the Self-taught Higher Education Exams, Wang said he also hires surrogate exam-takers to sit National College English Tests and Japanese-Language Proficiency Tests, among others.

Wang faces up to three years in prison if convicted.

The surrogate exam-takers and those who should have taken the tests face detention.

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Detained for paying ‘surrogate’ to take test

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