Suspects caught in college entrance exam scam

By Yang Lifei  |   2008-6-17  |     ONLINE EDITION

TWO people have been detained for allegedly organizing 16 students from a good school to take the National College Entrance Examination for others in Gansu Province, China Youth Daily reported.

Most of the 16 students are seniors at No. 1 Middle School at Guyang County, Shandong Province, which has an excellent reputation for quality teaching. The students have been questioned by police in Gansu.

The suspects are Wei Chengjia, a chemistry teacher at No.1 Middle School, and Zhang Yuru, a laid-off female worker. They were accused of assembling a crowd to disturb social order, the report said.

On June 7 and 8, 16 exam substitutes were seized in five schools where the National College Entrance Examination was being taken in Tianshui, Gansu Province. Invigilators determined that the students were substitutes and led them out of the classroom before they could take the exam, the report said.

Based on the confession of substitutes, Tianshui police caught Zhang at a hotel on June 7. They captured Wei the next day, the report added.

Dong Yinxi, vice director of Tianshui Public Security Bureau, said more than 2,500 people in the city were involved in the preparatory work for this year's national college entrance examination.

``The incident has caused a really bad influence. We vow to conduct a thorough investigation and brief the community on the case when there is any development,'' he told the newspaper.