Corruption hatched in anti-corruption

Time has an article in its recent release that covers a story of a convicted official committing suicide during a medical treatment after which he was allowed to return home for the Lunar New Year's Festival. This would have been the first time he had been allowed to go home since the first day of imprisonment.

Zhu Shengwen, once vice mayor of Harbin (the capital of Heilongjiang Province, the northest part of China bordering on Russia), had fallen from power in 1997 when a local court sentenced him to life in jail as one of 67 officals indicted for taking bribes while supervising the conversion of Harbin's bomb shelter into an underground shopping mall. Last year, the prison authority announced that Zhu would be home by the Lunar New Year and granted parole after seven years in jail. However the medicial treatment turned out to be what would separate him from his family forever. He was reported by the authority to kill himself by jumping from the window of the toilet and died instantly. However, his wife produced all the evidences to show that this was a political murder, rather than a suicide committed under depression. Zhu once told his wife that he was set up by those he found to be in connection to the bomb shelter debacle and the investigation itself was supervised by one of the officials who Zhu discovered took bribes.

The extent to which the disclamation against the government is true may never be known. The possibility that this occurs does exist in China, however. Since the newly appointed government leader, Mr Hu Jingtao, took the helm, anti-corruption has been pushed steadily in progress. But the story above throws much doubt upon how effective the campaign will go. If the anti-corruption is not itself from corruption, what does anti-corruption count after all?