"House sister" Gong Aiai sentenced to 3 years for faking IDs
房姐龚爱爱伪造证件 被判三年有期徒刑
Gong Aiai, nicked named "house sister" in China, was sentenced to 3 years in jail for charges of forging and trading official documents.
A court in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province Sunday annouced the verdict. Gong Aiai, was a former deputy head of a local rural bank in Yulin city. She owned multiple properties under forged identities.
According to the police, Gong had four hukou IDs and possessed over 40 Beijing properties with a total floor space of about 10 thousand square meters. The total property value amounted to about 400 million yuan, or 65 million US dollars.
While Internet users questioned whether the money Gong used to buy property was earned legally, police said they had not received reports that Gong was involved in illegal fundraising, absorption of public deposits, or contract fraud. During her trial on Tuesday, Gong denied the charges, arguing that all her identification documents were processed by police authorities.