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Corruption reports boom in SW China city after text message campaign
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Xinhua News Agency
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July 15, 2008
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Corruption reports boom in SW China city after text message
campaign
BEIJING, July 15 (Xinhua) -- Prosecutors in southwest China say
they have received more reports of corruption in the last three
weeks than they received for the whole of last year -- thanks to
text messages offering hefty rewards for tip-offs.
The procuratorate in Beibei district, Chongqing Municipality,
sent text messages to 370,000 mobile phone users offering rewards
from 3,000 yuan (440 U.S. dollars) to 500,000 yuan for information
leading to convictions of corrupt officials.
The procuratorate also opened a tip-off hotline, according to one
of the messages.
Since the text messages were sent on June 25, prosecutors ...