In Guangdong, Tea Oil Greases Official Palms

Wei Jinfeng, deputy director of the Guangdong Finance Department

(Guangzhou)—In the financial documents for a Guangdong Province grower and processor of tea seed oil is a list of key shareholders who also happen to be the relatives of local government officials.

Off the record, Guangdong Xindadi Biotechnology Co. Ltd. and its chief – a businessman who went out of his way to cultivate good relations with local officials – received but according to investigators never properly accounted for tens of million of yuan in government subsidies.