31 officials probed over mining accidents, cover-ups
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CHINA’S top procuratorate is investigating 31 officials over alleged cover-ups and negligence in three coal mine accidents in which 39 people were killed.
Officials — including coal industry administrators, work safety watchdog staff and town officials — are said to have committed crimes including abuse of power, dereliction of duty and accepting bribes, said the Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP).
A fire in a mine owned by the Rongningfeng Company of Lushan County in central China’s Henan Province killed 24 people and caused direct economic losses of more than 20 million yuan (US$3.2 million) in December 2009. The accident was concealed for four years.
In the same province, seven people were killed and nine injured in a coal mine flood in Gongyi City in December 2013. Direct economic losses amounted to 15 million yuan. The town government, Dayugou Coal Mine Co Ltd and the mine owner are accused of withholding information.
And eight people died on July 5 this year when a colliery roof collapsed in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. Work safety watchdog officials were negligent in checks and findings, claimed investigators.
All the officials under investigation have been placed under “compulsory measures.”
Under China’s Criminal Law, these include summons by force, bail, residential surveillance, detention and arrest.
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