Exam scam pair caught

By Yang Lifei  |   2008-6-18  |     NEWSPAPER EDITION

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

The suspects are Wei Chengjia, a chemistry teacher at No.1 Middle School at Guyang County, Shandong Province, and Zhang Yuru, a laid-off female worker.

They were accused of assembling a crowd to disturb social order, the report said.

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

On June 7 and 8, 16 exam substitutes were seized in five schools where the exams were being held in Tianshui, Gansu Province.

Supervisors determined that the students were substitutes and led them out of the classroom before the exam, the report said.

Tianshui police caught Zhang at a hotel on June 7. They captured Wei the next day, the report said.

Dong Yinxi, vice director of Tianshui Public Security Bureau, said more than 2,500 people in the city participated in the preparatory work for this year's National College Entrance Examination. "We vow to conduct a thorough investigation," Dong said.