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Woman fined 30.5 million yuan for damaging historic villa

HOUSING authorities in Jing’an District today fined a woman 30.5 million yuan (US$4.46 million) for damaging a historic villa.

Besides Wang, 10 government officials from Jing’an District were also punished for negligence.

The woman, surnamed Wang, who is the mother of the villa’s actual owner, was also told to restore the building’s original look within 10 months, the Jing’an District Housing Management Bureau said.

Wang used steel and concrete structure to replace the three-storied red-tiled-roof villa on 888 Julu Road as “it was too dilapidated to be repaired.”

The villa was built in 1930 by Hungarian architect Laszlo Hudec and was given historic protection status by the Shanghai government in 1999, meaning their facades and function could not be altered.

Shanghai Lingming Industrial Co Ltd, the construction company Wang had hired to dismantle the villa, was fined more than 300,000 yuan and banned from bidding for any construction projects in Shanghai for a year.

An architect surnamed Wu, who was hired by Wang, was also banned from building design business in Shanghai for a year.

Shanghai Xiancheng Industrial Co Ltd, the garbage clearance company, was fined 50,000 yuan.




 

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