A FORMER political adviser of the Longgang Committee of the CPPCC was being prosecuted for contract fraud, Longgang People s Procuratorate sources said Sunday.
Wen Shou an, an honorable Shenzhen citizen, has allegedly defrauded the Shenzhen Yuanfeng Co. with a falsified land purchase contract, the procuratorate said.
The case dated back to 1997 when the Yuanfeng company bought 6,095 square meters of land near Buji Middle School in Longgang District.
When the company started to develop the land, Wen produced a copy of a land contract, claiming he had bought part of the land in 1986 from the then Buji township government.
According Yuanfeng Co., manager Liao Zhiqiang, the township government recognized Wen s contract at a meeting in August 2000, and confirmed that about 1,500-sqm land had been sold to Shenzhen Jiukuang Co., which was owned by Wen. But the parties had not reached an agreement for compensation and the land was left idle.
After Metro Line 5 construction began in 2007, a new contract was signed between the two parties and Liao agreed to pay a 2 million yuan (US$303,031) land compensation fee at Wen s request. Liao also paid 100,000 yuan in commission to another man, Zhong Jihua, who helped mediate between Wen and Liao.
After he paid the land fees, Liao became suspicious because Wen had provided a copy of the contract instead of the original. A later judicial inspection suspected that the contract was forged.
Liao took Wen to court in October 2008 and demanded he produce the original contract, which was later found to have been forged.
Wen was chairman of Shenzhen Jiukuang and was honorary chairman and founder of the Shenzhen Chamber of Commerce for Overseas Chinese.
Born to a poor family in Buji, Wen migrated to Hong Kong with his parents and started working when he was still a child.
He started as an apprentice at a slaughter house. After China s opening-up policy in the early 1980s, Wen opened a factory in Shenzhen and became one of the earliest Hong Kong investors.
Liao was honored as an honorable citizen in 1994 when the city government introduced the honor for the first time, along with another 45 people. (Han Ximin)
