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Bribery probes on the rise as city steps up anti-corruption campaign

By Yang Jian | January 27, 2016, Wednesday | Print Edition

MORE senior officials in Shanghai were investigated for corruption in 2015 than the year before due to intensified efforts to fight corruption, the city’s chief prosecutor said yesterday.

Prosecutors investigated 428 people in connection with 363 corruption cases, including seven bureau directors and 51 department directors, about 40 percent more than in 2014, Chen Xu, chief prosecutor of the Shanghai People’s Prosecutors’ Office, said in his annual report to the Shanghai People’s Congress.

The bureau directors investigated included Dai Haibo, former deputy secretary-general of the city government. He has been charged with taking bribes worth over 3.24 million yuan (US$346,000) along with more than US$39,000 and HK$300,000 (US$38,500).

Feng Jun, former general manager of State Grid Shanghai Electric Power Co, has been charged with taking bribes worth over 43.47 million yuan alone or with partners and being unable to account for property worth 76 million yuan.

Jiang Xiefu, 72, a former Party chief of Baoshan District, has been charged with accepting more than 1.74 million yuan in bribes when he served as Party secretary of the district; Party secretary of the city’s housing, land and resource administration; and a senior lawmaker between 1997 and 2008.

Deputy bureau directors investigated included Li Jun, former vice president of Shanghai Huayi (Group) Company, Lu Jin, former deputy director of Jinshan District, Cui Jian, former deputy general manager of Baosteel Group Corp, and Guo Hong, former deputy human resources director with China Railway Corporation.

Ten local corruption suspects who had gone overseas were caught last year, Chen said.

City prosecutors have also been cracking down on those who offer bribes, he said, with investigations into 112 suspects in 89 cases.

Arrest warrants were issued for 27,691 people in criminal cases last year while prosecutions were launched against 42,343 people.

In 2014 the figures were 29,577 and 42,791, respectively.

A total of 953 people were prosecuted for serious criminal offenses including murder, robbery and kidnapping last year, he added, about 10 percent fewer than in 2014.

Prosecutors also took action against 393 people in over 300 cases involving damage to the environment as well as food and drug safety, he added.

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