Protecting the wrong leads to more misdeeds

Harbin investigators have shot themselves in the foot by contradicting themselves.

After their probe into claims by a tourist that he was ripped off by a restaurant in the city, capital of Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, which he said overcharged him for the fish he and his relatives consumed during Spring Festival, the local government investigators initially claimed that the restaurant was not in the wrong.

It was the investigations conducted by reporters that have pushed the government investigators into revealing the truth of the scandal.