11/20/2010

Local gov't in north China responds amid online debate triggered by police couple's murder

TAIYUAN, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Local government departments in northern China's Shanxi Province made an official response Saturday concerning the controversy sparked by the murder of a married police officer couple.

Some media outlets have suggested the pair may have been corrupt.

The population and family planning bureau in Hongtong County told Xinhua the couple, Wang Jianxiong and his wife Han Huifang, who both worked in Hongtong County's public security bureau, had two daughters and one son but withheld the truth about the birth of their second daughter.

A bureau spokesperson said the bureau is working together with related departments to discipline those responsible for concealing the birth of their second daughter.

The county's public security bureau confirmed the couple's three children are studying in the United States. But the spokesperson did not say whether or not the couple financially supported their children.

As for the online rumors the couple ran the Hongtong County Lusheng Coal Mine and the Hongtong County Dingxin Smelter, the spokesperson said neither Wang nor Han registered with the county's industry and commerce administrative bureau to establish the enterprises.

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Nov 20, 2010 2:15:19 PM | Crime, Current Affairs

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