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This "goes to show how state resources and public trust and authority have been excessively abused by those people," said Yang Fengchun, a professor of government and management at Peking University. "They behave as if the country were at their beck and call. Whatever they want, they get." Gong's case is one of several to emerge in recent months of government officials buying up large numbers of properties beyond the means of their civil servant incomes. They have fueled public calls for asset disclosure by public officials and have been seen as a test for the newly installed Communist Party leadership, which has warned that corruption threatens the party's legitimacy and has vowed to stamp it out. Yet Gong's case has stirred a fascination beyond many other reports of corruption. Since details first trickled out in mid-January, the public and state media have followed each development, registering shock as the scale of the alleged corruption grew. In the days prior to her detention, speculation centered on her whereabouts and why she had yet to be arrested.
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