Phones missing

A MAN forgot a carton that contained 60 mobile phones on a bus when he got off Sept. 2. The carton was found by the ticket seller of a No. M239 bus which the man, identified as Zhao, took from Shenzhen Railway Station to Longgang on the night of Sept. 2.

After the bus arrived at the bus terminal in Pingdi, the ticket seller surnamed Huang handed the carton to the management of the bus company as she had found 60 brand new smart phones and accessories with a market value of 210,000 yuan (US$30,657) in the box.

Zhao later contacted the bus company and said he was so tired that he took a nap while taking the bus and he forgot the carton.

Zhao retrieved the smartphones.

Rumormonger seized

A 25-YEAR-OLD woman was detained for three days for spreading a rumor on Weibo.com that a Chinese student had been threatened in a cult in Germany, while police and the Chinese Embassy in Germany had yet to take action.

The rumor caused panic among overseas students. The woman’s account with Weibo.com has been permanently closed, and the woman has been detained.

Fund misuse

A FORMER head of the property owner committee of a housing estate in Nanshan District was sentenced to nine months in jail for embezzling 440,000 yuan of public funds to invest in the stock market. The man, identified as Ah Ping, embezzled 440,000 yuan from the maintenance fund collectively owned by the property owners.

Ah Ping made nine transfers from the collective account to his private account to purchase stocks in December 2015.

He returned the funds in May 2016, for fear of being exposed in an audit.