Four officials and 10 police officers have been punished for involvement in fraud committed by a prisoner at a prison in Mudanjiang, according to a statement on the official website of the Heilongjiang Provincial Department of Justice in Northeast China on Tuesday.The justice authority released the statement after media reports covering the prisoner's story attracted public attention. It said the case happened several years ago. It honored the media's supervision and extended its gratitude to the public."We have learned a serious lesson from it," and "We have overhauled the prison system in Heilongjiang and perfected management and rules to prevent the reoccurrence of such cases in the future," the statement said.Prisoner Zhang Junbo used phones to contact people outside prison and giving different reasons, solicited money. He continued defrauding people even though he was under investigation for another fraud case, the media reported.Zhang was sentenced to life on a kidnapping conviction in 2003 but his jail term was reduced to 20 years in 2006. In 2009, he chatted with a woman surnamed Wang on Fetion, an instant messaging app, and soon developed a romantic relationship.Between May 2009 and January 2010, Zhang told the woman that he needed money to bribe officials to let him leave prison earlier and gave some other reasons. The woman sent him more than 3.88 million yuan ($617,500).When creditors urged the woman to repay the money in January 2010, Wang visited the prison and realized that Zhang had deceived her.Zhang was kept in solitary confinement when he was under investigation for the fraud case, but during that period, between November 2013 and January 2016, he could still use phones and engaged in seven other fraud cases to cheat people out of more than 700,000 yuan.At least five officers at Mudanjiang prison favored the money transfer and illegal lottery purchase by providing their bank accounts to Zhang, but the prison did not explain why Zhang could use mobile phones in jail, which is banned by law. custom silicon wristbandsbuy wristbands near mesilicone medical alert bracelet diabetessilicone wristbands johannesburgrubber message bracelets
TAIPEI -- Aviation regulators in Taiwan said stalled fan blades had forced a Cathay Dragon plane carrying 317 passengers and 13 crew members onboard to make an emergency landing in Kaohsiung City in southern Taiwan Monday morning.Cathay Dragon flight KA451 departed the Kaohsiung International Airport for Hong Kong at 8:02 a.m. and made an emergency landing at about 8:31 a.m. after pilots reported that the fan blades on one of the turboprop engines on the right side had stalled.The plane, an Airbus 330, was 10 minutes en route from Kaohsiung to Hong Kong when the flight crew realized that one of the engines was emitting smoke. The plane turned around, dumping fuel over the Taiwan Strait before its successful emergency landing, the airport said.There were no reports of injuries among the people onboard, the airport said.After the plane safely landed, aviation regulators sent staff for initial investigation, but found no trace of dead bird bodies. Further details are still under investigation.Cathay Dragon apologized for the delay and arranged alternative flights for passengers.
