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'Paper tiger' photographer to stand trial

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-09-24 23:49

XI'AN -- Zhou Zhenglong, the farmer who shocked China with his fake photo of the endangered South China tiger, is to stand a public trial on Saturday morning, according to a notice by the People's Court of Xunyang County in the northwestern Shaanxi Province on Wednesday.

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Zhou was accused of fraud and owning guns and ammunition illegally, said the notice.

The 54-year-old from Zhenping county claimed to have photographed the tiger with a digital camera on the afternoon of October 3 last year, and was rewarded by the Provincial Forestry Department with 20,000 yuan (2,915 US dollars).

But doubts arose immediately on the internet, as some netizens found an old Lunar New Year commemorative poster in which the tiger resembled that in his photo.

Police later arrested him after seizing an old tiger poster, which Zhou allegedly borrowed from a farmer in another village in September to produce his photos. They also found a wooden model of tiger claw, which Zhou allegedly used to fabricate a South China tiger paw print on snow.