Tough rules on their way to combat corruption
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CHINA’S legislature is speeding up its efforts to bring in harsher laws to fight corruption, a senior law official said yesterday.
Lawmakers are considering revising the Criminal Law to modify criteria for imposing penalties on criminals found guilty of embezzlement and bribes, said Wang Aili, director of the Criminal Law Office under the Legislative Affairs Commission of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee.
Lawmakers have proposed dismissing the benchmark monetary amounts as criteria and making sentencing in accordance with three categories that take into account both the amount of money and the seriousness of the crime, he said.
The current Criminal Law, enacted in 1997, stipulates that the penalty for corrupt officials should be meted out according to the amount of illegal money involved, with benchmarks set at 5,000 yuan (US$798), 50,000 yuan and 100,000 yuan. The criteria are outdated considering the pace at which the Chinese economy and per capita income have grown in the past 18 years, he said.
Heavier penalties will be imposed on those offering bribes, Wang said.
A draft amendment adds new provisions so that those giving bribes to staff of state bodies and their relatives to pursue illegitimate interests would face criminal punishment, he said.
Those taking advantage of their posts to commit crimes would be banned from working in relevant fields for a certain period, he added. The country will also work out revisions to the Law on Administrative Supervision, Wang said.
Advancing anti-graft legislation is in line with a Party decision in October last year.
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