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Elderly victims out of pocket in 'deadly' plot

A SCAM by village officials in central China's Henan Province to siphon off funds collected from farmers by declaring some of them dead has backfired not on the perpetrators but the victims. Now victims of the... ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Mon, Nov 02 2009

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