Red Cross questioned over luxury vehicles

BEIJING - The top charity in China denied on Monday that officials at the organization use cars that are too extravagant for government standards, saying such claims are "nothing but rumors".

"A well-informed person disclosed yesterday that several luxury government vehicles are being parked in the garage of the Red Cross Society of China," said a recent micro blog post written by Wu Chenguang, deputy editor-in-chief of Blog Weekly, a popular Chinese magazine.

"Every official of or above the society's department level has two luxury government cars at his disposal," Wu went on. "This source said the policy (of allocating two cars to every senior society official) comes in response to the Beijing government's even-odd license plate rule and I believe what he's saying is true."