Nearly 20% jump in trial of officials in corruption cases
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THE number of state officials indicted and sentenced for graft across the country has risen substantially, figures released by the Supreme People’s Court revealed yesterday.
As many as 10,840 officials from government departments and state-owned companies were investigated and punished for corruption in the first quarter of the year — a year-on-year increase of 19.8 percent. Among them, 57 held bureau-level positions, the court said.
The numbers of officials who were prosecuted rose 7.4 percent compared to the same period last year. Some of the 3,095 suspects received jail sentences.
The disgraced officials were found involved in 8,222 cases, of which, 6,750 were related to bribery amounting to at least 50,000 yuan (US$8,005) and embezzling assets of more than 100,000 yuan. Prosecutors targeted public interest areas like education, health care, disaster relief and environmental protection, rounding up 6,402 people in 4,760 cases involving 650 million yuan.
Between January and March, prosecutors put 3,073 officials on trial for abusing powers and dereliction of duty. Out of a total of 2,245 cases, 1,270 were regarded very serious.
One of them was a vote-buying scandal in Hengyang City in central China’s Hunan Province, involving more than 500 local lawmakers. Fifty eight of them were charged.
The scandal broke in February last year amid claims that 56 candidates elected as deputies to the provincial legislature had offered 110 million yuan (US$17.90 million) in bribes to 518 city lawmakers and 68 staffers.
On December 28, the provincial legislature disqualified the 56 lawmakers, and legislative bodies in Hengyang accepted the resignations of 512 people said to have taken bribes between December 28, 2012, and January 3, 2013.
In January this year, Tong Mingqian, Hengyang’s Party chief, was fired from his post as the provincial advisory body’s vice chairman and expelled from the Party. He failed to take “timely and effective measures,” the Party’s disciplinary commission said.
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