| Chief Justice: 9 provincial-level officials convicted for corruption in 2006 |
| Tuesday,March 13,2007 Posted: 18:01 BJT(01 GMT) xinhua |
China's high-profile anti-graft campaign brought down a series of high ranking officials in 2006, among whom nine were sent into prison, Chief Justice Xiao Yang said here Tuesday. A total of 825 convicted government officials above the county level were sentenced by courts in 2006, Xiao, president of China's Supreme People's Court (SPC), said in a work report to the annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC), the country's parliament. "Of the convicted, nine were provincial- or ministerial-level officials and 92 were at the prefecture level," he said. One of the most notorious convicted officials was Ding Xinfa, a former provincial procurator-general of eastern Jiangxi Province, who was sentenced to 17 years for bribery and embezzlement. The disgraced list also included Li Dachang, former vice governor of southwest Sichuan Province, who was sentenced to seven-years in prison for power abuse. Chinese courts heard 23,733 cases of embezzlement, bribery and dereliction of duty in 2006, among which 8,310 were bribery cases involving government employees, according to Xiao's report. Top judge Xiao said it is an important task of the courts to boost the country's anti-graft drive. "China's courts will continue to seriously punish crimes of corruption, dereliction of duty and commercial bribery according to law," he said. In a separate report delivered to nearly 3,000 lawmakers, top prosecutor Jia Chunwang said enhancing crackdown on job-related crimes was one of the priorities of the country's procuratorial bodies in 2006. He said the procuratorial organs placed 33,668 cases on file for investigation for corruption, bribery and other job-related crimes in 2006, involving 40,041 people. "A total of 29,966 were prosecuted," said Jia, procurator-general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP). He said 2,736 government employees above the county level were put on file for investigations by the procuratorial departments for job-related crimes in 2006, among whom 202 were at the prefecture level and six were at the provincial- and ministerial-level. Corruption and commercial bribery have become a prominent social problem in China, arousing public anger. The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) of the Communist Party of China has highlighted "government officials' collusion with business people" in its battle against corruption. |
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