On January 19, 2018, a woman wore Canada Goose brand clothing at the film festival in Park City, Utah, USA. (Rich Fury: Getty Images for Canada Goose)
[The Epoch Times, December 27, 2023](Comprehensive report by Epoch Times reporter Li Jing) Corruption scandals in charitable organizations controlled by the Chinese Communist Party continue to be exposed. After a 6.2-magnitude earthquake occurred in Jishishan County, Gansu Province, Canada’s high-end winter clothing brand “Canada Goose” donated more than 2,000 down jackets to the earthquake area. Later, it was revealed that some of the down jackets were being resold.
At around 23:00 on December 18, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred in Jishishan County, Linxia Prefecture, Gansu Province. As of 8:00 on December 20, a total of 423 aftershocks had been recorded. At about 00:00 on December 27, a 3.3-magnitude earthquake occurred in Jishishan County again, with a focal depth of 10 kilometers.
It is currently the middle of winter, with local temperatures as low as minus 15 degrees Celsius. After the earthquake, a large number of victims slept on the streets and were severely short of supplies.
As early as the 21st, Canada Goose’s official Weibo announced that it had joined forces with the Shanghai Charity Foundation to donate more than 2,000 down jackets and cold-proof supplies, and said it would “do our best to assist the earthquake-hit areas in Gansu and tide over the difficulties together.”
However, a few days later, some netizens posted pictures on social platforms saying that a seller was selling Canada Goose down jackets on a second-hand trading platform that were suspected of aiding the Gansu earthquake area.
On December 26, a user of Alibaba’s idle trading platform “Xianyu” posted: “Assist the geese in the earthquake area of Gansu. Watch the video and you will know that the goods are not ordinary. There are only a few hundred pieces. First come first served. No washing marks.” Tags are non-returnable and non-refundable.” It also comes with a video.
In response, Linxia Prefecture Civil Affairs Bureau and Shanghai Charity Foundation responded that the above information was untrue. Director Guo of the Linxia Prefecture Propaganda Department said that the batch of supplies has not yet been distributed.
Although the official government quickly “put out the fire” in response to the relevant public opinion, many netizens expressed doubts, “The official said that the Canada Goose down jackets donated to the earthquake-stricken areas will definitely be distributed to the victims. Well, after a while, we can all go to the victims’ homes. Visit and even count them one by one to see how many you can count.”
“In the end, it depends on who will wear these two thousand Canada Goose down jackets. I doubt that these down jackets will actually be distributed to the victims.”
“99.9% will not go to the victims. It is also possible that some non-disaster victims will receive it and sell it on a second-hand platform. The family members of the leaders may not be short of such clothes, but they like the money.”
Some netizens sarcastically said: “The township heads and village secretaries who were wearing cotton coats costing several hundred yuan burst into tears when they thought about putting down jackets worth tens of thousands of yuan on the victims without falling off the ground. They all burst into tears and posed for photos with the victims. “
According to a previous announcement from the Ministry of Public Security of the Communist Party of China, the public security agencies in Gansu and Qinghai urgently mobilized more than 5,000 police officers to “maintain stability” in the disaster areas and upgrade the level of social prevention and control in the disaster areas, including cracking down on so-called rumors and information related to the earthquake.
Gansu Red Cross exposes disaster relief scandal
After the Jishishan earthquake, the Red Cross Society of Gansu Province exposed a scandal in its disaster relief work.
According to the Gansu Provincial Red Cross Disaster Relief Material Procurement Cost List provided by the whistleblower, the official purchase price of a hand warmer is 500 yuan, while the average online price is basically between tens or more than 100 yuan; the official purchase of a 12 square meter cotton tent It costs 2,200 yuan, and the price of a “windproof, rainproof, three-layered cotton” tent sold by a mainland e-commerce platform is 529 yuan; in addition, the official price of a grain and oil package of 5 kilograms of rice (or flour) and 900 ml of cooking oil The average price of cotton-padded clothes and quilts is 100 yuan. At the same time, a management fee of 1.62 million yuan was charged for the purchased materials.
According to the whistleblower, almost every material purchased is much higher than the market price, and the price of almost every item is an integer. The purchase of bulk commodities should be lower than the market price. If you bargain for a discount of one yuan per item, you can save tens of thousands of yuan.
The whistleblower said that in addition to the purchase fee of 16.26 million yuan, a management fee of 1.62 million yuan was also collected.
Prior to this, the Red Cross Society of Gansu Province had exposed scandals. After the 6.6-magnitude earthquake occurred in Dingxi City, Gansu Province in July 2013, the Gansu Red Cross Society also exposed the “sky-high price of mineral water” incident.
The Red Cross monopolized by the CCP has been constantly exposed to scandals. Since 2011, the Luwan District Red Cross Society’s high catering expenses, Guo Meimei’s wealth-showing incident, celebrities’ fake donations and staged photos, and the “big-bellied girl” donation delay incident have been exposed one after another. , Each leader of the General Conference is equipped with two luxury cars, etc. With the substantial loss of credibility, the amount of social donations it received has dropped sharply.
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2023-12-26 22:53:40
