Leaked questions land exam writer in jail

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Beijing Times
December 18, 2008

The designer of a certification exam was sentenced for a year and half for “deliberately leaking state secrets,” today’s Beijing Times reports.

Song Fulai, a 55-year-old chief engineer at Beijing’s Yicheng Municipal Engineering Company, took part in the design of the 2005 and 2006 National Construction Engineer Qualification Exam.

The court found that Song released exam questions to students in a study session he conducted in 2006 and was paid a total of 63,000 yuan. A fellow teacher received a year-long sentence that was suspended for one year.

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