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Officials held over relief grain scam

By Ma Lie | China Daily | Updated: 2008-06-21 07:37

XI'AN: Two officials in Xixiang county, Shaanxi province, are being detained and interrogated for giving victims of the May 12 Sichuan quake less than their allotted measure of relief grain, local authorities have said.

The grain given to the quake victims was also reportedly stale.

"The initial investigation has shown that the two officials - Wang Anwu, director of the county's grain bureau; and Zhang Miyou, chief of the bureau's macro business section - were responsible for giving out grain that was stale and that was less than the allocated amount when sending out relief food supplies to local disaster-hit people," Li Qiyan, director of the Xixiang county supervision bureau, told China Daily on Friday.

Officials held over relief grain scam

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