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A bank clerk was taken to court Monday for cheating 31 million yuan (US$3.7 million) out of the China Construction Bank (CCB) branch in Yiwu City of east China's Zhejiang Province.
According to the intermediate people's court of Jinhua City in Zhejiang, the account manager surnamed Liu had set up a fake company with his bother and, beginning in early 2000, loaned the company a total of 31 million yuan from the bank by counterfeiting relevant documents and signatures.
The court said the sum of money is the largest ever implicated in a corruption case in the province.
Liu and his brother were caught when they tried to cheat another 10 million yuan (US$1.21 million) in the same way in July last year.
The two had spent 21 million yuan (US$2.54 million) of their illegal gains.
(Xinhua News Agency May 13, 2003)
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