Four Chinese Officials and One Manager Charged With Abusing Pandemic Control Health Code System

A passenger shows the green QR code on his phone indicating his health status to security at the Wenzhou railway station in Wenzhou, China on Feb. 28, 2020. Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images

Four Chinese officials and one state-owned enterprise (SOE) manager in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, were accused of abusing the health code system and randomly turning bank depositors’ health codes red.

According to the city’s disciplinary watchdog, Deputy Party Secretary of the city’s Political and Legal Commission, Feng Xianbin, and the city’s top leader of the Youth League, Zhang Linlin, decided to give red health codes to bank depositors who came from other cities.