Anti-graft campaign flushes out officials
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May 18, 2011, Wednesday
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MORE than 11,000 Chinese officials have been punished for corruption, dereliction of duty or rights infringement in a campaign to clean up construction-related sectors, said the Ministry of Supervision yesterday.
A total of 11,273 officials received disciplinary or administrative penalties from September 2009 to March this year, and 5,698 of them have been prosecuted, Vice Supervision Minister Hao Mingjin announced at a press conference in Beijing.
Among the 11,273 punished, 78 were prefecture-level and 1,089 county-level officials, according to the ministry.
Figures released by the Supreme People's Procuratorate at the same conference show that prosecutors investigated 15,010 people in construction-related illegal activities during the same period nationwide.
Among these individuals, prosecutors said, 13,416 were involved in embezzling or taking bribes of more than 2.99 billion yuan (US$460 million), and prosecutors helped retrieve more than 360 million yuan of the money.
Hao cited 20 major criminal cases, in which officials in charge of land management and state-run construction companies were penalized. Among the 20 cases, the largest sum of embezzled fund amounted to more than 61.56 million yuan.
Construction-related sectors are regarded vulnerable to graft in China. Corruption can occur in the various links of a construction project, from land-use approval to project management, public bidding and construction material purchases, Hao said.
A total of 11,273 officials received disciplinary or administrative penalties from September 2009 to March this year, and 5,698 of them have been prosecuted, Vice Supervision Minister Hao Mingjin announced at a press conference in Beijing.
Among the 11,273 punished, 78 were prefecture-level and 1,089 county-level officials, according to the ministry.
Figures released by the Supreme People's Procuratorate at the same conference show that prosecutors investigated 15,010 people in construction-related illegal activities during the same period nationwide.
Among these individuals, prosecutors said, 13,416 were involved in embezzling or taking bribes of more than 2.99 billion yuan (US$460 million), and prosecutors helped retrieve more than 360 million yuan of the money.
Hao cited 20 major criminal cases, in which officials in charge of land management and state-run construction companies were penalized. Among the 20 cases, the largest sum of embezzled fund amounted to more than 61.56 million yuan.
Construction-related sectors are regarded vulnerable to graft in China. Corruption can occur in the various links of a construction project, from land-use approval to project management, public bidding and construction material purchases, Hao said.
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