Possible Clues:

• Official raising difficulty with area cut after reshuffle
• Inflexible official
• Office gets credit for a fourth mortgage and that's official
• Caught miserable-looking specimen on branch, perhaps mandarin
• Mandarin peel from corridor and apricot behind chest of drawers
• Office takes brief case for public official
• Administrative worker
• Paper-pusher
• Functionary
• Mandarin