Punishment for 5,600 involved in violations
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Chinese authorities have punished some 5,600 government officials for their involvement in fiscal violations, the country’s top auditor said yesterday.
Liu Jiayi, head of the National Audit Office, made the announcement while briefing lawmakers on a report about correcting problems found in an audit of the central government’s 2014 budget and fiscal revenue and expenditure.
Liu said the amount of money brought in during the correction had reached 580 billion yuan (US$89.5 billion) by the end of October.
Close to 6,000 items in the government rules and regulations were formulated and revised in the process, Liu said.
It is the first time Chinese legislators have heard this type of report at the National People’s Congress Standing Committee’s bimonthly session.
In previous years, reports were only submitted to lawmakers in paper form. The change this year could signal the government’s resolve to curb widespread malpractice.
The audit office said in a June report that the majority of fiscal violations took place in sectors that involved public funds, state assets and state-owned resources, such as land and mining.
In particular, auditors found that more than 780 billion yuan originally earmarked for land transfers was misappropriated by officials to fill administrative expense gaps, lent to others or used to construct new office buildings and venues.
Violations were also detected in transactions and approval of mining rights and in the use of key national special funds. An audit involving 2,448 mining rights suggested malpractice in about a third of cases, while separate investigations revealed that close to 10 billion yuan in urban security housing funds and some 1.7 billion in lottery funds was misappropriated and siphoned off by officials.
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