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  Auditors reveal truth about State assets firms   (Xinhua)  Updated: 2005-01-22 03:06  Auditors found malpractice 
involving 6.7 billion yuan (US$810.16 million) at four State-owned assets 
management companies, the National Audit Office announced on Friday. 
 The offi ce uncovered 38 cases of illegal operations and problems in the 
Huarong, Orient, Cinda and Great Wall companies. Friday's edition of Beijing 
News reported that the Auditor-General, Li Jinhua, told a national meeting of 
government auditors early this month that the four companies had bought 
non-performing loans that had little chance of being repaid, to help disguise 
illegal operations. 
 Auditors also found back door dealings used to clear bad assets. For 
instance, the banks sold non-performing assets at a lower price than they should 
have, leading to a loss of State assets, Li said. 
 Some companies had committed fraud by reporting fake financial figures and 
misusing funds for employees' salaries and subsidies, he said. 
 The Chinese Government founded the four companies in 1999 to clear the bad 
assets that had been left by four State-owned commercial 
banks.
   
  
  
 
 
  
  
 
  
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