Local Officials Punished for Abusing China’s Health Code System

Four officials and one big data company executive in Zhengzhou have been punished, local graft busters said Wednesday, after they were found to have abused a Covid control system to prevent people from taking their money out of ailing local banks.

The decision to abuse the system was made by Feng Xianbin, executive deputy secretary of the politics and law commission of the Zhengzhou municipal party committee, and Zhang Linlin, an official with the city’s anti-epidemic authority, according to an official statement from the local discipline inspection authority.