Rumor-mongering suspect arrested in SW China

A 51-year-old man has been arrested in southwest China's Yunnan province in the country's crackdown on online rumor mongers.

Dong Rubin, who uses the online name "Bianmin", meaning border man, is suspected of falsely declaring the capital in company registration, illegal business operations and the crime of "creating disturbances," according to police authorities.

He was found to have started rumors about four Huang family brothers, a "cancer village" and the death of a civil aviation official in Yunnan since 2011. He did it to gain economic profit, police said.

He also posted fake information and comments that distorted facts online during the investigation, prosecution and trial of the Mekong River attack where 13 sailors were murdered on Oct. 5, 2011 by a Myanmar drug lord and his gang members.

Dong made a false report of 1 million yuan (164,000 U.S. dollars) as registered capital to set up a company in 2011, by cheating the local industrial and commercial administration, police said.