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Corrupt official plagiarizes trial apology
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Corrupt official plagiarizes trial apology
Music, books and Hollywood films... China can now add testimonies of regret by corrupt officials to its exhaustive list of copyright violations. Zhang Shaocang, former Communist Party chief of state-owned power company Anhui Province Energy Group Co Ltd, wept as he read a four-page ?letter of apology? during his corruption trial at a court in Fuyang, Anhui, according to a Procuratorial Daily report reproduced in Wednesday?s Beijing News.
But Zhang?s sentiments were later found to be strikingly similar to those of Zhu Fuzhong, a disgraced former party chief of Tongan village in southwestern Sichuan province, whose apology letter was printed in the Procuratorial Daily less than two weeks before. ?Before working, I never gave much thought to money and regarded achievement as the starting point and end result of my work,? the paper quoted both of the letters as saying.
?I gradually lost my bearings and the scope of my position,? Zhang said at his trial, an exact copy of Fu?s own wording. Apart from using whole sentences word for word, Zhang also ? more craftily ? made ?slight changes? in other areas.
It was possible that Zhang, while being investigated for bribe-taking, had drawn inspiration from Zhu?s apology. ?Because of this, Zhang?s apology was dismissed as ?show-boating.??
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