HOW CHINA’S CROOKED OFFICIALS GET CASH, PROPERTY OUT FOR A NEW LIFE OVERSEAS
November 1st, 2012
BY MARK GAO, IN BEIJING
A less than flattering catch-call has lately become attached to China's Communist Party elite: 'Luoguan', literally "naked officials", refers to officials whose spouses and children have migrated to another country, spending Chinese money abroad, some of it dirty, or transferred illicitly. The phrase was coined in 2008 by Zhou Feng'an, a senior Communist Party official in southerly Jiangsu province, to describe Pang Jiayu, a corrupt fellow senior cadre of the party. A leading official in coal-rich Shaanxi province, Pang got 12 ...
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