Beijing prosecutes 386 on-the-job crimes in 2003

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Beijing prosecutes 386 on-the-job crimes in 2003

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A total of 386 on-the-job crimes were prosecuted in Beijing in 2003, involving 20 senior officials and 290 million yuan (35.4 million US dollars), said the People's Procuratorate of Beijing on Thursday.

The 386 people were accused of bribe-taking, embezzlement and malfeasance, which included 20 city-level officials, 63 county-level officials and nine judiciaries. The 290 million yuan of economic losses retrieved included 79 cases involving over 1 million yuan (122,000 US dollars) each, said the Procurator Xu Haifeng on the second session of the 12th Beijing Municipal People's Congress.

Xu mentioned some major cases handled last year. An accountant named Bian Zhong in the National Committee for Natural Sciences Fund was accused of taking 12.62 million yuan (1.54 million US dollars) in bribes and embezzling 216 million yuan (26.3 million US dollars).

A board chairman of a Beijing-based electrical appliance company named Liu Qichao was accused of embezzling 2.1 million yuan (256,000 US dollars) and accepting 560,000 yuan (68,300 US dollars) in bribes.

Several cases appointed by the Supreme People's Procuratorate were underway, including the case of the former Party chief of Guizhou Province Liu Fangren, said Xu.

Source: Xinhua

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