Trial Probes Depth of BOCOM Loan Scam

By staff reporters Fang Huilei, He Xin, Luo Jieqi and Yu Ning

( Magazine) After a nearly two-year investigation, a trial is under way in Guangdong Province in a fraud case involving a missing banker, a businessman with two surnames, and an estimated 9 billion yuan in illegal loans.

But a major suspect – Liu Changming, a former regional president for the Bank of Communications (BOCOM) – remains at large.