Conflicts of interest must be avoided in investigations

HAN MIAO, a prosecutor from Qing'an in Heilongjiang province, Northeast China, reportedly spent a night in the same hotel room with a woman who was not his wife. His superiors responded that the two did not have sex and just slept with their clothes on. A third-party investigation is needed to make the investigation convincing, says a Beijing Times comment:

Does the public trust what the prosecutor's superiors said? Just look at a popular micro blog: "That's a serious joke and we cannot help laughing."

Obviously, the public does not believe what Han's leaders told them. That's not because they do not trust the authorities, it is because those who conducted the investigation into the incident have a conflict of interest with the probe.