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Officer's daughter enters university in name of classmate

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-05-10 10:09

TIANJIN/CHANGSHA -- China has launched investigation into an identity theft case in which a former police officer Wang Zhengrong was reported having helped his daughter enroll university under the name of her classmate.

Authorities in Shaoyang City, central China's Hunan Province, and the provincial public security bureau have sent teams to investigate the case in Shaoyang's Shaodong County.

Tong Mingqian, secretary of the Shaoyang Municipal Party Committee, ordered to release investigation results as soon as possible and harshly punish those involved in the ID theft case.

The father Wang Zhengrong is being investigated and the university diploma of the daughter Wang Jiajun is set to be cancelled. However, the victim Luo Caixia still could not get a teaching certificate because her ID was used by the junior Wang.

An imposter takes over

Luo, 23, now a student at Tianjin Normal University, first noticed something was wrong this March when she was applying for a bank card in Tianjin. She was told by a clerk that her ID card had already been registered with the picture of another girl, who looked like her high school classmate Wang Jiajun.

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It reminded Luo of a similar case in which she was told she was not able to apply for a teaching certificate because her ID number had been used already, according to the young woman from Shaodong County, Hunan Province.

She reported it to police and confirmed that her name was used by Wang after her parents mailed her some group photos taken at high school.

Luo took the college entrance exam in 2004 and got a not-so-bad score of 514. However, she did not receive any admission letter from a college or university. She then took the exam again in the following year and entered Tianjin Normal University.

Actually Guizhou Normal University did send a letter of admission to Luo, which was intercepted and landed in the hands of Wang Jiajun. Wang graduated from the university in Guizhou Province last year and then worked in the southern metropolis of Guangzhou.

Wang Jiajun only got a poor score of 335 in the 2004 exam, including a junk 19 points in mathematics.

"I would feel better if my name is used by someone else other than my classmate. I do not know how to trust people after this," Luo told Xinhua on Thursday.

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