金元大劫案下载:Red Cross wades into murkier waters

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Red Cross wades into murkier waters

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The Red Cross Society of China has announced that it will suspend operations in one of its fundraising groups and hire auditors to investigate the branch's alleged misuse of donations.

According to a statement posted on the charity's official website late Friday, the charity will invite auditing institutions to check revenues and expenditures for the China Business System, a group founded in 2000 by the China General Chamber of Commerce with the approval of the Red Cross Society.

The Red Cross Society of China, mired in a crisis over its credibility as the mainland's biggest charity, has made another attempt to distance itself from a subsidiary accused of involvement in several business scandals.

The charity issued a statement late on Friday making a belated public apology and ordering a halt to the operations of the Red Cross China Business System pending an independent audit.

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"Guo Meimei" saga

However, the move appeared to have failed to quell a public furore over the "Guo Meimei" saga.

Media critics said that despite the apology, the charity's crisis management efforts had raised more questions about its role in the scandals.

Unlike two previous statements in which the Red Cross had denied any wrongdoing, this time it promised an inquiry into corruption and fraud accusations against China Business System.

"We will invite accounting firms to conduct an audit of financial revenue and expenditures of China Business System since its establishment," the statement said. "Pending the release of audit and inquiry findings, all operations of the Red Cross China Business System will be suspended."

Analysts said the organisation was forced to take the move amid mounting public pressure and widespread allegations over its ability to manage public donations.

While the statement was aimed at preventing further damage from media investigations, it could also be viewed as recognition of the existence of the problems alleged by mainland media. Several news organisations, including China National Radio and China Central Television, said China Business System had been allowed to raise money and manage donations in the past decade without mandatory government approval.

The society denies knowledge of profit-driven business operations by China Business System. It says its relationship with the charity subsidiary is limited to offering professional guidance.

The China General Chamber of Commerce and the Red Cross Society of China proposed the establishment of the Red Cross China Business System in 2000 as a non-profit Red Cross branch for business and commercial sectors. It was allegedly operating several business companies illegally, making money out of its special access to charity projects in the name of the Red Cross Society of China.

The secretary general of China Business System, Li Qingyi , told Xinhua that the companies were set up to close the budget deficit of his charity group.

The scandal started about two weeks ago when so-called Maserati girl Guo Meimei, a cyberspace pseudonym, flaunted her lavish lifestyle on social networking site Sina Weibo. Guo identified herself as general manager of the Red Cross Chamber of Commerce, a company the Red Cross Society of China said did not exist. Some reports claimed her genuine name was Guo Meiling , but her real identity remains a mystery.

Few had expected microblog postings from a woman who said she was 20 years old to evolve into a crisis dealing another blow to the reputation of the Red Cross and reviving long-held distrust of the charitable group after scandals of corruption and misuse of funds over the years.

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