Paper details how corrupt officials try to evade probe

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Xu Gang, former deputy governor of southeast China’s Fujian province, was found to have colluded with his wife and bribers and transferred the illicit money, it said.

Some powerful officials, it said, even took revenge on whistle-blowers.

“Corrupt officials’ awareness and ability in counter-investigation have become more and more powerful, and they have shown a more frequent action to fight back,” the report cited a local graft-buster in Jiangxi as saying.