BEIJING: A man from southern China has been jailed after he stole 13mil yuan (RM9mil) from a video website and spent nearly a third of it tipping hostesses live-streaming programmes on the internet, Chinese media reported.
The man from Qianxi county in Guizhou province took advantage of a bug in the payment system to claim huge numbers of refunds from the video website Youku Tudou he was not entitled to, the news website Thepaper.cn reported.
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