Town finance chief dies after drinking with tax officials

by imtoms373 on 2012-02-29 16:25:44

According to the Yangtze Evening Post, recently, a post online claimed that Mr. Gao, the director of a finance office in Funing County, Yancheng City, died after drinking with leaders and cadres from the local taxation bureau. On the 27th, the official side of Funing County confirmed the event, identifying the deceased as Mr. Gao Meng, director of the Finance Office of Yangzhai Town. The poster stated that Mr. Xu, the party secretary of Yangzhai Town, had just taken office for more than ten days. On the noon of the 23rd, several staff members from the local taxation bureau came, so they went to the canteen for lunch together. Mr. Xu called Mr. Gao Meng, the director of the Finance Office, to join them. The poster said that there were eight or nine people at the table drinking "Mengzhi Lan", and they drank 10 bottles. After drinking, Mr. Gao went to sleep, but unexpectedly, two hours later, someone found that he had already passed away. The county committee specifically formed a post-incident work handling group, with Deputy County Governor Mr. Wang serving as the group leader. Afterwards, all posts related to this incident that appeared on the Funing Forum and Tieba were deleted. The deceased was only 36 years old. On the morning of the 27th, the reporter rushed to the courtyard of the People's Government of Yangzhai Town, Funing County. On the second floor of the Finance Office, a seal had been placed on the door of Mr. Gao's office by the town Discipline Inspection Commission. A staff member of the Finance Office pointed to the government canteen to the west and said that Mr. Gao drank himself to death there. According to a waitress in the canteen, she served the private room where Director Gao was on that day at noon. There were nine people in total, six drinking white wine, one drinking beer, and two not drinking alcohol. She said that Director Gao could drink over a catty of liquor, and that day at noon, the six people drank two bottles of Yanghe "Tianzhi Lan" white wine. Director Gao left the private room in good condition. The publicity department staff of Funing County confirmed that Director Gao died after having lunch and drinking with the staff members of the county local taxation bureau on the 23rd. As for the cause of death, it still needs to wait for the public security organs to investigate. Meanwhile, Vice Director Li Dongbo of the Funing County Local Taxation Bureau said that due to the recent change of leadership in Yangzhai Town, six staff members from the local taxation bureau went to communicate with the town leadership on how to better provide tax services. A staff member of the county discipline inspection commission indicated that the discipline inspection commission, public security and other departments have formed an investigation team to investigate this incident.