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Former mayor kills self to escape punishment
The investigation into the mysterious suicide of Yu Xiaoping, the former Party secretary and Mayor of Shangrao in East China's Jiangxi Province, has made the preliminary finding that Yu chose death mainly to escape punishment. The Jiangxi Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission also said: "Yu had led a very degenerate and dissipated life during his time in office which caused very bad social influence." On the morning of August 26 last year, Yu was found hanging from a roof beam in his home. He was fully dressed in new clothes. Investigators also found some ties knotted together in the house and concluded Yu had intended to use them as a rope before deciding to use electrical cord instead. Some of the violations Yu was guilty of, according to the report of the discipline commission, included seeking prostitutes, having a mistress and taking advantage of his post to get his son selected as the province's "excellent student" which helped the youth gain admission to a university in Beijing. Yu was also found to have had an illegal financial relationship with a major enterprise group named Chunlai which had already attracted the attention of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. Ironically, despite all Yu's misconduct, in the week after his death many of his colleagues praised him saying that he worked hard at his job. They said that on occasions Yu would call staff from his office at midnight to arrange the next day's work. Yu was said to be the country's first city-level Party secretary to commit suicide while in office. |
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