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Thousands of officials fall foul of austerity

China鈥檚 top anti-graft body said yesterday that more than 4,900 officials were reprimanded for violating austerity rules in October, bringing the total punished this year to 36,600.

The officials punished last month, including two provincial and ministerial level officials, were implicated in over 3,800 cases, about a quarter of which involved unapproved use of public vehicles, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said in a report on its website.

Unauthorized allowances and subsidies, lavish weddings and funerals as well as illicit gift giving and receiving were also included in the list of violations.

The CCDI established a monthly reporting system in 2013 to monitor the implementation of the 鈥渆ight-point rules鈥 which were introduced in December 2012 by the Communist Party aimed at reducing bureaucracy, extravagance and undesirable work habits.

According to the CCDI, more than 71,000 officials were subject to disciplinary action for breaking austerity rules in 2014.

As of the end of October, some 27,000 cases involving four provincial and ministerial level officials had been dealt with in the country鈥檚 frugality campaign this year, it said.


 

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