{"id":31367,"date":"2012-12-11T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=31367 "},"modified":"2012-12-11T16:06:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T16:06:00","slug":"31367-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=31367","title":{"rendered":"Chinese police chief \\&#8217;sacked over mistress twins\\&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Mr Qi allegedly charged rent from an expensive apartment to the police bureau<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>A police chief in China accused of keeping twin sisters as mistresses has been sacked, state media report.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>The allegations against Wusu City police chief Qi Fang &#8211; including claims he gave his two mistresses police jobs &#8211; emerged online last week.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>He was removed from his post on Saturday and is being investigated, Xinhua news agency quoted local party officials as saying.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>He is the latest official to come under internet scrutiny over his behaviour.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>The allegations against Mr Qi first appeared on a popular website in Xinjiang province, home to Wusu City, accompanied by a photo showing the scantily-clad mistresses in bed, Xinhua said.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>The report on the website said Mr Qi had used his position to find jobs for his mistresses in the police force, the news agency added.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>One of the women worked as a special operations officer while the other worked in the traffic department, according to other online reports.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>The website also said that Mr Qi rented an expensive apartment for the sisters and charged the rent as an official expense.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>A local party official was quoted by Xinhua as saying that while &#8220;part of the online allegations&#8221; were true, many details &#8220;remain unverified&#8221;.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>In recent months a number of Chinese officials have been investigated after allegations against them emerged on the internet, amid growing public anger over the perceived lavish lifestyles of some officials.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Chongqing district-level official Lei Zhenfu was sacked last month after a video showing him having sex with an 18-year-old was released by a whistle-blower. The sex tapes were linked to a blackmail scheme involving corruption, reports said.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>A safety official in Shaanxi province whose luxury watch collection caught the attention of internet users was stripped of his official duties after an investigation.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>In his inaugural speech on 15 November, Xi Jinping, the new head of the Communist Party, said battling corruption was a top priority. In subsequent speeches he called it something that could &#8220;kill the party and ruin the country&#8221;.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><span style=\"color: #2d2d2d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Continue reading the<\/span><strong style=\"color: #2d2d2d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-china-20662118\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #034af3; text-decoration: initial;\">&nbsp;original article.&nbsp;<\/a><\/strong><br \/><div>&nbsp;<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;A police chief in China accused of keeping twin sisters as mistresses has been sacked, state media report.&amp;nbsp;The allegations against Wusu City police chief Qi Fang &#8211; including claims he gave his two mistresses police jobs &#8211; emerged online last week.&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}