Investigators: Claims by court official are untrue

A central-level joint investigative group looking into a high-profile case in which a top court officer claimed he experienced retaliation from his colleagues and that corruption exists in the country's Supreme People's Court concluded on Friday that the allegations were untrue.

Wang Linqing, an officer of the top court, had developed personal resentments during his work at the SPC, so he stole some documents related to a case he handled and fabricated a story that the documents had vanished mysteriously, the investigation concluded.

Wang also photographed some internal instructions from senior court officials in the case, it found, and sent the photos to one of the litigants. The photos were later released online with the help of a well-known former news anchor, Cui Yongyuan.