Corruption cases up 11% as crackdown intensifies
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China intensified its fight on corruption last year, handling about 11 percent more cases than in the previous year and including eight high-ranking officials whose cases have been handed to prosecutors.
At a press conference in Beijing, Huang Shuxian, deputy secretary of the ruling Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and minister of supervision, named the officials as Zhou Zhenhong, Liu Tienan, Ni Fake, Wang Suyi, Li Daqiu, Tong Mingqian, Yang Kun and Qi Pingjing.
Five were senior provincial officials, two senior officials in central government departments, and one a senior executive at a state bank.
They were among 31 high-profile officials investigated last year.
The remaining 23 are still under investigation, including Jiang Jiemin, former head of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, and Li Dongsheng, former vice minister of public security, Huang said.
Last year, the Party’s discipline inspection agencies punished about 182,000 officials nationwide, 13.3 percent more than in 2012, Huang said.
Last year, the commission was reorganized to improve efficiency and put more human resources into supervision and case investigation, he said. It also launched an official website in September and created a tip-off section.
Last year, the agencies opened about 172,000 cases and closed 173,000 (including those opened in previous years).
That was 11.2 percent and 12.7 percent higher than in 2012.
The agencies also cracked down on spending, banning officials from using public money to buy expensive gifts, feasts and sightseeing tours.
In advance of this year’s New Year and Spring Festival, they banned spending public money on calendars, greeting cards and fireworks and stopped officials from going to private clubs.
The commission regularly publishes a list of officials who violate these rules on its website.
Huang said more than 30,000 officials were caught violating these rules and about 7,600 of them committed wrongdoings serious enough for punishment.
Last year, 10 teams of inspectors were sent to 20 provincial governments, state-owned enterprises and public institutions, Huang said. They discovered information that helped bring down a number of corrupt officials including Liao Shaohua, Party chief of Zunyi City in southwest China’s Guizhou Province and Guo Youming, former vice governor of the central Hubei Province.
Huang also said 21,000 officials failed in their duties last year in major workplace accidents and serious pollution incidents.
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