Not receiving quite the same amount of media attention is Cui Ya Dong, the High Court judge in Shanghai who has been accused by no less than 70 police officers of graft during his tenure as provincial chief in Chongqing. By strange coincidence a video surface online of four Shanghai judges visiting a nightclub in Shanghai and leaving with a group of prostitutes.
In a letter signed with the thumbprints of 70 police officers, Cui was accused, amongst other thing of taking nearly 20RMB million in kickbacks and appropriating a huge amount of alcohol, totalling to around six tons. Cui would later sell the liquor, bought with public funds, in Anhui. As of the time of writing he is yet to be detained, but all references to him have been scrubbed from China search engines and social networks.
Also not in the news is the detention of Chinese reporter Liu Hu, who was arrested after posting message on Weibo accusing deputy director of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, Ma Zheng Qi of dereliction, during time in...Chongqing. Liu posted evidence that expose other corrupt officials in the city, but these posts were quickly deleted.
Since authorities aren't obligated to investigate accusation of corruption made by members of the public, nothing is done, unless someone has firsthand evidence somewhere. For now it seems that while there is some effort to crackdown on graft in China, political motives are more often behind the trials and detentions that any kind of moral fibre.
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