TWO Party disciplinary inspection officials in the Luohu District Education Bureau were held accountable for ineffectively honoring their duties to supervise, spot and report the crimes in the district’s education system.

Liang Zhuhong, Party chief of the education bureau’s disciplinary inspection commission, was removed from his post in January and Jiao Feng, head of the No. 3 Inspection Team of the district’s Party disciplinary inspection commission stationed at the bureau, was reprimanded for failing in his duty to prevent and control the risk of corruption of officials in the district’s education bureau, according to a public circular of the Guangdong Provincial Party Disciplinary Inspection Commission.

The commission unveiled three typical cases of officials at the grassroots who failed to strengthen the conduct of Party members.

The bureau’s Party committee was also criticized by Luohu’s legislature through its public circular.

In June 2016, Wang Qi, director of the Luohu District Education Bureau and secretary of the bureau’s Party committee, was expelled from the Party and his post for allegedly taking bribes. Wang has been handed to the judicial authority for criminal investigation. In the district, 22 school leaders were given demerits for giving red packets containing cash to Wang and two of them have been put under criminal investigation.

Two other cases happened in Huizhou and Deqing County in Zhaoqing.

Liang Caihong, director of the Huicheng District Government Offices Administration in Huizhou City, received an internal Party warning and administrative demerit for negligence of duty that led to the embezzlement of funds by its canteen manager.

Between September 2009 and January 2015, the canteen manager, Zhang Minxiong, embezzled a total of 540,000 yuan (US$81,162) by intercepting government funds and fabricating accounting receipts for reimbursements.

Zhang was sentenced to three years and six months in jail. Liang and his two deputies were held accountable for negligence and inefficient management.

In Deqing County, Li Xurong, an official in Guanxu Township, received an internal Party warning for allowing his subordinates to illegally collect 18,000 yuan in fees from village committees between 2011 and 2013 and divide them as subsidies.

(Han Ximin)