More than 30 ministerial-level officials investigated for corruption in China

Want China Times, Xinhua 2013-03-10

Cao Jianming delivers a work report in Beijing. (Photo/CNS)

More than 30 Chinese officials at the ministerial level or higher have been placed under investigation for corruption or other job-related crimes over the past five years, China's top procurator said Sunday.

Prosecutors have investigated about 13,000 officials at the county level or above for job-related crimes since 2008, said Cao Jianming, procurator-general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, when delivering a work report at the first session of the 12th National People's Congress.

Great efforts have been made to punish and prevent corruption, Cao said.

Prosecutors took about 19,000 bribers to court over the past five years. They investigated about 36,900 administrative law enforcement officials and 12,894 judicial staff in a bid to fight judiciary corruption, according to the report.

The procuratorate has set up a national anti-corruption hotline and website, and improved its work in collecting clues and protecting whistleblowers and witnesses, Cao said.

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