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At a Glance

Han Ximinximhan@126.com

SHENZHEN traffi c police reported a total of 12,219 app-based bike violations in July, accounting for 62 percent of all bike violations.

From July to Aug. 13, 86,249 violators of non-motorized vehicle laws, in six batches, were suspended from using app-based bikes, according to a release from traffi c police Wednesday.

Among the app-based bike violators, 5,818 and 5,181 were users of Mobike and ofo, respec-tively.

Statistics show that Shen-nan Road, Dongmen Road and Houhai Boulevard are the top three roads for most violations, such as illegal uses of vehicle lanes and running red lights.

Most violations were commit-ted during rush hours, especially from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. Among the violators, three-quarters were male, and 60 percent of the vio-lators were between the ages of 20 and 30.

Since July, traffi c police, in cooperation with app-based bike operators, implemented a rule to suspend violators of non-motorized vehicle traffi c rules

from using app-based bikes.Within a year, violators will be

suspended from using app-based bikes for a week for one violation, a month for two violations and six months for three or more violations.

The city reported 26 app-based bike accidents this year, which led to 11 deaths and 16 inju-ries. Among them, 14 accidents involved ofo bikes, in which six were killed and eight were injured. The 10 Mobike-related accidents led to four deaths and seven injuries.

On April 30, a woman sur-named Xiong, who was riding an

ofo bike in the wrong direction, was hit by a bus that was chang-ing lanes on Heping Road in Luohu District. Xiong, who died at the scene, took most of the responsibility for the accident. In another accident March 12, a bus collided with an ofo bike rider coming in opposite direc-tion on Longda Expressway. The bike rider died at the scene and took full responsibility. The latest fatal accident happened Aug. 3 on Binhai Boulevard, where a 68-year-old woman attempted to cross the road on a ofo bike was hit by a car. The case is still under investigation.

A LUXURY product smuggler who fl ed overseas last year was escorted back to China and detained by police in the Xiamen airport Wednesday. The suspect, surnamed Ji, was the founder of a well-known Internet technology company in Shenzhen, according to Xinhua News Agency.

Ji was a district-level lawmaker in Shenzhen before his smuggling business came to light.

His company bought brand-name garments from Europe and the United States and trans-ported them to Hong Kong. Wu, who worked for a Shenzhen logis-tics company, hired parallel trad-ers to bring the garments across the border to the warehouses of Ji’s company in Shenzhen.

Ji also mailed some of the garments across the border by submitting false information to a Shenzhen-based shopping website and a logistics company. He misrepresented the garments as self-use products and lowered their declared prices to reduce taxes and dues.

Ji’s company profi teered over 321 million yuan (US$48 mil-lion) by selling the smuggled products on its shopping web-site, according to the report. Ji fl ed overseas May 17 last year. He was detained by Interpol in Indonesia Aug. 4 and escorted back to China on Wednesday.

Thirteen suspects in the case were sued Nov. 2. Ji will also be handed over to the procuratorate to face prosecution.

China has been making efforts to catch fugitives that have fl ed overseas.

An economic suspect was repatriated to China from the United States on Wednesday. The suspect allegedly falsifi ed documents and swindled loans and acceptance bills worth 354 million yuan from four fi nancial institutions from October 2013 to April 2014. Zhou is also sus-pected of cheating others of more than 31 million yuan.

(Zhang Yang)

No tainted eggs in SZTHE city’s food and drug administration said no tainted eggs imported from the Neth-erlands have been found in Shenzhen. The administra-tion has tested 12 batches of eggs this year, and all of them were up to standards.

According to China’s gen-eral administration of quality supervision, inspection and quarantine, the Netherlands and other member states of the European Union aren’t eligible to export eggs or egg products to China, so consum-ers don’t need to worry about tainted eggs.

Millions of eggs have been pulled from supermarket shelves and destroyed across Europe, and dozens of poultry farms closed since the fi bronil contamination was discov-ered, raising risk for human health. Eggs tainted with fi pronil have been discovered in 17 European countries since the scandal came to light. They have also been found as far afi eld as Hong Kong.NBA SZ gameNBA China announced Wednesday that the Golden State Warriors and Minne-sota Timberwolves will play at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 5 at the Shenzhen Universiade Center in Longgang District, followed by a rematch at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 8 at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai. The tickets for the games go on sale Friday.

The games will mark the Warriors’ third trip to China following visits in 2008 and 2013. The Timberwolves will be playing in China for the fi rst time and appearing in their ninth and 10th interna-tional games since 1999.Summer drowningsIN just a fortnight, three people died from drowning in Shenzhen, according to the Shenzhen Pre-hospital Care Center. The center dispatched 11 ambulances to rescue people that had drowned in water this month.

Two fatal drownings took place Aug. 8. A 6-year-old kid died on the way to hospital after being pulled out from a pond. Another 19-year-old student drowned off Dameisha beach in Yantian District, and a 12-year-old child was found dead in a swimming pool in a residential compound in Luohu District three days later.Outdoor BBQ banTHE provincial environment protection department of Guangdong released a draft of measures to contain ozone pollution by suspending outdoor barbecue activi-ties and businesses in four cities, namely Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan and Dong-guan, for three months from September.

The measures also include restrictions on other activities such as outdoor burning.

A MAN spent 1.11 million yuan (US$166,406) on a brand new imported Maserati V6 last June. But it turned out that the car’s left headlight had been replaced, and there were scratches on the electroplated edging of the left front door window. The luxury car had actually been recalled twice by the manufacturer, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported Wednesday.

According to the fi rst instance at Longgang District People’s Court, the car was confi rmed to have defects before the sale, so the seller was guilty of fraud for not informing the consumer. The seller was ordered to offer a car return, a refund and compensa-tion of 400,000 yuan.

The man, surnamed Chen, runs a company in Shenzhen. He had a Mercedes Benz S-Class sedan, but was often mistaken for a chauffeur, so he wanted to get a sedan that caters to young people. He favored Maserati.

In June, he and his friend attended an auto show and settled on a Maserati. He heard that big discounts were offered

and bought the car at the auto store a few days later. He paid a down payment of 200,000 yuan and signed the contract. Two weeks later, he paid 477,300 yuan and arranged a car install-ment mortgage of 500,000 yuan at the bank. “When I came to the store to take the car, I was asked to have a quick look at it and sign the remaining documents because the staff would be off duty soon,” Chen said. The garage was dark without much light, he said. He looked at the car for no more than two min-utes before being called to sign the documents.

It all became clear when he drove his new car to a repair shop and was told that the car’s left headlight had been replaced, and that there were scratches on the front bumper and electro-plated edging of the left front door window.

Chen negotiated with the auto store many times, and the store fi nally admitted that the head-light had been replaced, but insisted that it was an imported original part and the technician

was qualifi ed to repair vehicles like Maserati.

Chen added that the luxury car he bought had been recalled by the manufacturer twice, but the auto store never informed him. He fi led a lawsuit against the auto store for deliberately con-cealing that the car had defects and for false propaganda. He required a car return, a refund and compensation.

For a year, the luxury car remained untouched in an underground garage and was covered with dust. Chen said that he had to pay 15,000 yuan each month for the mortgage loan.

The auto store explained that the car had never been repaired due to an accident. The scratches were made during the shipment from Italy to China. So at the request of the manufacturer, the left front headlight was replaced, which was normal for a pre-delivery warranty.

At present, both sides have appealed to the court. The case is being heard by Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court for the second instance. (Zhang Yu)

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A man takes a photo of an exhibit while other residents look at it in Shenzhen Museum on Thursday. An increasing number of residents are visiting the museum during the summer holidays, mostly students on summer vacation and their parents. The museum received 16,000 people on a single day at its peak. Sun Yuchen

Summer visits to museum up