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Article: CHINA ISSUES STATUTE ON FRAUD INVOLVING QUAKE RELIEF.
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- AsiaPulse News
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- May 30, 2008
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BEIJING, May 30 Asia Pulse - Chinese authorities published a special statute Thursday that provides for punishment of malpractice and fraud involving relief for the May 12 earthquake in southwest China.
The quake took at least 68,516 lives, injured 365,399 people, left another 19,350 missing and rendered more than 15 million people homeless.
The new regulation was jointly issued by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) and the Ministry of Supervision (MOS).
The two departments ordered their local counterparts at various levels to make the anti-earthquake battle a primary task and to investigate and punish wrongdoing without ...