A man was given 18 months imprisonment for telling a railway
station in northeast China's Liaoning Province that the station
would be exploded at night, according to Shenyang Railway
Transportation Court.
Wang Xiaoqiao, 21 and a native of Nanxi County in southwestern
Sichuan Province, had been involved in a pyramid selling scheme in
Anshan city of Liaoning Province since May 2006.
On May 3 this year, a person surnamed Huang, whom Wang tried to
recruit to his scheme, told Wang that he would leave Anshan for
Beijing by train and then returned to his hometown in southwestern
Guizhou Province.
Wang was unwilling to give up Huang without scooping money from
him. Failing to persuade him to stay, Wang called the Anshan
Railway Station, saying "I am in Fujian Province. I was informed
that a passenger will carry exploders to Beijing by tonight's
train."
The staff members at the station reported it to police
immediately. The police from Shenyang railroad police station
started a safe haul over the train at once, which detained the
train for 43 minutes at the Panjin stop.
On May 5, police caught Wang in his abode in Shenyang, capital
of Liaoning Province.
Wang made an outright confession at the court. "But I didn't
know this was a crime. I was just unwilling to let him go so
easily," he said.
(Xinhua News Agency June 9, 2007)