An administrative penalty has been meted out against China's most prominent sexology expert due to swindling funds allocated by the State for research. A report from the online news website The Paper disclosed that he has already been demoted. In addition, he will be required to retire earlier than expected.

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Pan Suiming is the previous director of the Institute of Sexuality and Gender at Renmin University. One of the cause of his sanctions was his failure to present valid invoices of the expenditures he claimed to have been used to pay the sex workers he interviewed for his study.

A widely known researcher in China, Pan gained popularity following his study of the 23 red-light districts in the country from the year 1998 to 2010. Throughout his work, he conducted interviews with more than 1,000 sex workers and hundreds of pimps.

Pan in one of the seven professors from five universities who have been caught swindling research funds provided by the State. According to a report released by China's anti-corruption watchdog, these professors swindled more than 25 million yuan or $4 million.  

In a statement from the Communist Party of China Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, four of the charged professors were caught swindling the science research funds with fabricated subjects.

Moreover, an internal inspection conducted by the Ministry of Science and Technology revealed eight more people liable for the same crime, including the four professors earlier identified.

In its desire to boost scientific innovation, the Chinese government allocated 1 trillion yuan to the research and development fields in 2012. However, the ministry disclosed that majority of these funds had been mishandled.

"Although the State Council has general rules on the credibility of fund applicants, it has no specific law on State scientific funds in China," Meng Bing, a lawyer from King and Capital Lawyer Agency in Beijing, stated.

In addition, Meng cited that lack of supervision and strict sanctions as possible causes of corruption in these fields. 

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