( CNN ) -- A police chief who allegedly used a false identity to buy as many as 192 houses in cities in China 's southern province of Guangdong has sparked outrage on social media amid a growing scandal over corrupt officials amassing fortunes on the inflated property market . Zhao Haibin , a senior police official in Lufeng in the southern province of Guangdong , had been accused by a local businessman of using a fake ID on company documents to acquire the properties , the Guangzhou Daily reported . `` A police official openly had two IDs and used the other one to do business and cheat others . Why ( does ) nobody probe the case ? '' local businessman Huang Kunyi was quoted as saying on state-run China Daily . Zhao acknowledged possessing double IDs - known as hukou in Chinese - but denied having 192 houses , Xinhua reported . He was reported in Chinese media as saying that he was managing the properties on behalf of his younger brother . Authorities told Xinhua that Zhao -- who is also a local Communist Party official -- had had the fake ID revoked and that he had been dismissed from his post . The case has drawn a sharp response on China 's lively social media . `` ( I ) finally realized that in China , properties are forever in the hands of a tiny number of people , '' a user of China 's Twitter-like Sina Weibo was reported as saying . The case follows other high-profile instances of high-ranking officials using fake IDs and their positions to speculate on China 's overheated property market . On Monday , police arrested Gong Aiai -- a bank official from a rural bank in China -- who allegedly built a real estate empire worth at least $ 160 million using fake IDs and graft . Dubbed `` House Sister '' in the Chinese media , Gong allegedly used three false national identity cards to buy 45 properties in three cities , 41 of which were in Beijing where China 's expanding property bubble is at its hottest . The high-profile cases have captured the public imagination in a country where national identity cards limit the number of apartments a person can own -- part of a policy to cool China 's rampant property market . The use of fake IDs also points to corruption among the police who issue the cards , and authorities have detained four police officers on suspicion of helping Gong obtain the cards , the Ministry of Public Security said . There are fears the abuse of hukou - which registers a person place of residence in China - and the ID system may hamper the government 's fight against corruption . `` It could also provide the chance for officials fleeing abroad to use a passport registered with a fake ID card . Officials , with their real identities , have to hold official passports that would leave behind records for police , '' Fang Qiongming , a police officer from the city of Jieyang 's public security bureau , told the Global Times . The cases have also highlighted the precarious role of construction which has come to dominate China 's economy , accounting for roughly 25 % of all activity and 15 % of all jobs . The injection of stimulus money following the 2008 financial crisis has led to the rise of newly built ghost cities -- satellite cities built without thought for any sustainable market -- as stimulus money finds its way into construction . Analysts say that more worrying still has been the rapid expansion of China 's shadow banking system . Unorthodox loans , which often come in the form of trust loans and so-called wealth management products , have gone into fund real estate development and have been criticized for having short maturities that are difficult to roll over during times of financial stress .
Chinese police chief dismissed over probe into properties . Allegations center on a portfolio of 192 houses in cities in Guangdong province . Score: 6 China 's overheated property market has become a focus for speculators .