In early days, a woman online publicly accused Zhou Mouying, a mid-level cadre at the Chongqing Civil Affairs Bureau, of having “10 properties added in three years under her mother’s name, totaling more than 2,700 square meters, with a total price worth billions,” including a Bentley, doubting that the property and the so-called “retired worker” identity seriously contradicted each other. The accused party claimed the assets were “income from business,” and subsequently, the woman’s online account was reported and taken down after she posted the allegations. The Chongqing Yuzhong District Court found that the woman’s remarks constituted an defamation of Zhou Mouying and her mother, ordering her to publicly apologize online, with the apology video to be kept publicly accessible for at least ten days. The court’s standard of judgment for this case was not even “spreading rumors,” but rather that she had “infringed privacy.” This shows how increasingly brazen and shameless the bureaucrats in Zhongxiu are, not only punishing the whistleblower with inverted right and wrong but also openly stating “who dares to sue this official in court.”
Subsequently, in the apology video, the woman used a sardonic tone to express “admiration” for Wei Mouzhen’s “business method” of earning several billions in three years by a 74-year-old retiree, and she also mentioned that Zhou Mouying’s husband is suspected of handling a fake military officer certificate and a fake ID, which netizens also supported as “reverse reporting” or “false apology, real report.”
