A total of 54 people were recommended for some kind of punishment, but the major scapegoats were two disgraced officials and one dead guy, notes Charles Custer at Penn Olsen:
The main heaping of the blame, however, was placed on the shoulders of the already-disgraced former Railway Minister Liu Zhijun and his Vice Minister. Both men had been removed from office in early 2011 ? well before the accident occurred ? on charges of corruption. The other ?main culprit,? according to the state council is Ma Cheng, the deceased former CEO and GM of the Signals & Communications Group.
The accident, which left 40 dead, was blamed on various factors from lightning damage to failure to perform safety checks (read more at Penn Olsen).
China has aggressively downplayed controversy around the July crash, at one point prohibiting media reports that looked negatively on the future of high speed rail.
For now the future of high speed rail is uncertain. Yesterday China debuted a new record fast train. On the other hand 2012 railway construction is expected to fall 42%.
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Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/clusterstock/~3/w16fD3TWfWc/wenzhou-train-crash-report-2011-12
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