Qin Yu was briefly the chief of Baoshan District in Shanghai

Shanghai

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, China

People's Republic of China

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. He was removed from office on August 29, 2006 as part of a widening probe into corruption

Political corruption

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 involving the mishandling of funds from Shanghai's municipal pension system. Qin had close ties to former Shanghai Party Chief Chen Liangyu

Chen Liangyu

Chen Liangyu was a politician of the People's Republic of China from the ruling Communist Party, and the disgraced CPC Shanghai Committee Secretary, or the city's first-in-charge....

, having once worked as Chen's personal secretary during Chen's mayorship of Shanghai

Shanghai

Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...

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See also

• Chen Liangyu
  Chen Liangyu
  Chen Liangyu was a politician of the People's Republic of China from the ruling Communist Party, and the disgraced CPC Shanghai Committee Secretary, or the city's first-in-charge....
  
  
• Zhang Rongkun
  Zhang Rongkun
  Zhang Rongkun is one of the richest men in China; he was listed as China's 16th richest man on Forbes's 2005 list of the richest people in China. Zhang was a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and is currently the chairman of Fuxi Investment Holding Company and is a...
  
  
• Zhu Junyi
  Zhu Junyi
  Zhu Junyi was a government official in Shanghai, China. Prior to his arrest during an investigation into corruption in Shanghai in 2006, he had been in charge of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Labour and Social Security, Shanghai's municipal pension system.-Biography:Zhu attended the Changle...