10 execs suspected of faking pollution data

The Chinese police have detained 10 company heads suspected of fabricating pollution data, as the nation extends a crackdown on environment-related crimes.

The suspects are from eight companies, including a sewage plant in Dongguan, Guangdong province, and a joint venture invested by Coca-Cola in Gansu province. They are accused of falsifying figures to get pollution treatment subsidies, manipulating environment monitoring results or hindering such monitoring, Zou Shoumin, head of the environment inspection bureau at the Ministry of Environmental Protection, said on Thursday.

The ministry reported the cases to the police, as it does not have the authority to detain people.