China Investigates 10,000-plus Corrupt Officials in 6 YearsSince 1994, there have been more than 270,000 cases of corruption and bribery at all levels of China's government. More than 10,000 cadres at the county-level or higher have been investigated.According to official reports, in six years, China's procurators have investigated more than 10,000 corrupt officials above the county level, more than 700 of which are cadres at the department level and more than 100,000 of which are cadres at the provincial level. Their investigations uncovered more than 60,000 major cases of corruption, bribery and embezzlement of public funds, costing the state more than 22.9 billion yuan in economic losses. One of the main duties of China's procurators is to investigate corruption and indict guilty officials. In recent years, a number of high level corrupt officials including former Party chief of Beijing Chen Xitong, former vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and former chairman of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Cheng Kejie and former deputy governor of Jiangxi Province Hu Changqing, have been caught and sentenced. |
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