A police official in Changzhi, Shanxi province, was dismissed for further investigation after he was found to have several false ID cards and used them to transfer and hide illegal gains, China Daily learned on Friday.

Fan Hongwei, 53, former deputy director of Changzhi's public security bureau and chief of the bureau's traffic police detachment, was shown by a preliminary investigation to have received several ID cards with fake identities when he headed the public security bureau in Zhangzi, Tunliu and Changzhi counties.

The ongoing investigation, which is being carried out by the Shanxi provincial public security department and Changzhi city government, started after Fan's phony IDs were exposed online recently.