Official 'used public land to build mansion'

SHANGHAI - Local discipline authorities in East China's Jiangxi province are reportedly investigating an official who allegedly built a luxury residence on public land and threatened to "bury alive" a reporter who tried to expose the story.

It is alleged Deng Guoping, Party secretary of Nandeng village, Nanchang county, Jiangxi, illegally filled in the only pond in the village to build a mansion for his family on the land.

He also sold public land to fund the cost of decorating the mansion, a villager named Deng Jianping told China Daily on Wednesday.