A woman in Northwest China owned 41 apartments in Beijing, 10 of which she illegally bought using a fake identity, Beijing police said.

Gong Aiai, 49, a former deputy chief of Shenmu Rural Commercial Bank in Yulin, Shaanxi province, owned 41 houses with a total area of 9,666.6 square meters, the Beijing Public Security Bureau said in an announcement on its micro blog on Thursday.

Previous investigations show that Gong also owned two houses with a total area of 400 sq m in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province, and two others covering 600 sq m in Shenmu.