Hunan officials face bribery charges

By Jane Chen | June 21, 2010, Monday |

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A FORMER senior agricultural official of central China's Hunan Province and a sports chief will soon be charged for taking bribes in two separate cases.

Hunan Provincial People's Procuratorate Office has concluded the investigations into Cheng Haibo, 57, former vice director of Hunan Agricultural Bureau, and Fu Guoliang, former director of Hunan Sports Bureau, the office told today's People.com.cn.

Cheng had allegedly taken more than 20 million yuan (US$2.93 million) in bribes, according to Chang Zhiyu, vice chief proctor with Hunan Provincial People's Procuratorate Office.

The investigation was reportedly provoked by a previous probe into businessman Li Jiaxiang, who had developed the 600-million-yuan landmark Jinzuan Plaza in Hunan's Changde City, according to earlier media reports.

Cheng remained in close contact with Li when he was Changde's Party secretary from 2001 to 2006.

Cheng, a native of Hunan's Yueyang City, was promoted to Hunan's provincial agricultural chief in April 2006 after serving as Changde's Party secretary and mayor.

According to Chang, the Hunan procuratorate investigated 1,990 corrupt officials last year involving 11,566 cases of taking bribes, embezzlement and dereliction of duty.

Of those investigated, 11 were provincial-level officials. The office has filed charges against 1,279 people in court and 1,165 have been tried.

Chang said the office has received 32,394 public reports on corrupt officials since 2005, 26,918 alleging taking bribes or embezzlement and 8,476 reporting dereliction of duty.

It has received 1,469 calls and 439 online reports of corrupt officials since last May when the nationwide hotline 12309 and a Website were launched by the China People's Supreme Procuratorate.

The Hunan office awarded 1.14 million yuan last year to tipsters whose reports led to conviction.

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