Refurbished iPhone scandal

    JD.com has been accused of selling refurbished* iPhone products on its website.

    A woman surnamed Wu said she bought a new iPhone 5C through JD for more than 3,000 yuan (US$484). But a month later, the phone began to have technical problems. When Wu took the phone to an authorized* Apple service outlet in Beijing on February 16, 2014, she was told that the serial number on the motherboard* indicated a corresponding iPhone 5C that had been registered in Britain in 2013.

    WeChat pyramid scheme

    Police recently busted a WeChat pyramid scheme* in Nanjing City.

    An investigation by police found a man named Chen Zhihua had been using WeChat to organize pyramid schemes and involve others in the illegal business. Chen claimed that one could make large sums of money by listening to his speech.

    According to the police, Chen recruited* 329 members and illegally raised 4.61 million yuan. Chen has been sentenced to a prison term of eight years and fined 10,000 yuan.

    Cop in fatal shooting backed

    A procuratorate’s* investigation into a fatal shooting at a railway station in Heilongjiang Province has confirmed the legitimacy* of the act following questions from the public.

    When police officer Li Lebin shot Xu Chunhe on May 2 at Qing’an County Railway Station, he was acting within the law, according to a statement issued by the railway transport procuratorate of Harbin, the provincial capital.

    China slashes import taxes

    China will slash import tariffs on consumer goods, including skincare products, clothes and diapers, starting in June. The Ministry of Finance said it would lower import taxes for some products starting on June 1 by an average of over 50 percent as an “important measure to create stable growth and push forward structural reform.”(SD-Agencies)