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1,000 ‘Naked Officials’ Found in Guangdong’

The BBC reports that an investigation in China has found that “more than 1,000 officials in the southern province of Guangdong have spouses or children living abroad”: China’s state-run news agency, Xinhua, said the communist party in Guangdong had carried out a two-month investigation into a group known as “naked officials”. The name is applied to Chinese civil servants who have sent family members to live abroad. Some then funnel ill-gotten