Top statistician in China scandal
By Hong Li,WNS Shanghai Correspondent
SHANGHAI - The head of China's National Bureau of Statistics has become the latest high-profile casualty of the Shanghai pension fund corruption scandal. Qiu Xiaohua was sacked from his job for suspected "severe violations of discipline", a bureau spokesman said. The allegations against Mr Qiu centre on the alleged misuse of the city's multi-million dollar pension fund. Several other top officials and prominent businessmen have also been implicated in the growing scandal.
In a separate case, five senior judges in the southern city of Shenzhen have been either detained or questioned in a wide-ranging bribery investigation there. Mr Qiu is the first official from outside Shanghai to be implicated in the pension fund scandal. "Relevant departments, when carrying out investigations into the Shanghai social security fund scandal, found out that Qiu was suspected of being involved in severe violations of party discipline," said National Bureau of Statistics spokesman Li Xiaochao. "The central disciplinary office is now conducting an investigation into his involvement," Mr Li added.
More than 100 central government investigators have been sent to Shanghai to investigate money that has disappeared from the city's 10 billion yuan ($1.25 billion) social security fund. The funds were allegedly used to make illegal loans and investments in real estate and other infrastructure deals.
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