Two professors at Chinese universities have been revealed as having had run-ins with the law in the United States by anti-fraud activist Fang Zhouzi.
Fang, a campaigner against academic and scientific fraud, said on his microblog that Su Dongwei, an economics professor at Jinan University in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province, served 16 months in prison in the United States for a US$110,000 credit card fraud.
Su had applied for credit cards using other people's names when he was a professor at the University of Akron in Ohio. He was deported after his release, Fang said.
Su then taught at Jinan University and the University of Otago in New Zealand. Su was expelled from Otago in 2006 after the university found out about his conviction, Fang said.
Fang also disclosed that Yao Qingwei, a chemistry professor at Tianjin University, had been arrested Kankakee County, Illinois, for trying to solicit a minor on the Internet in 2006, when he was at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb.
Yao was hired by Tianjin University in an overseas professionals recruitment plan and received 1 million yuan (US$152,725) in subsidies from the local government.
Yao was arrested after police posing as underage girls agreed to meet him and charged with six counts of indecent solicitation of a child, ABC said.
He was later dismissed by the US university.
Tianjin University was aware of the incident and was investigating, said an official.