Anti-Corruption authorities in Beijing recovered 580 million yuan worth of public funds and properties from the hands of fallen officials in 2000, official figures showed Tuesday.
The figure was 8.2 times that of the 63 million yuan of the previous year.
According to sources from an anti-corruption work meeting at the Beijing Municipal People's Procuratorate, the municipal anti-corruption bureau handled 1,368 cases of graft and bribery last year, an increase of 17.8 percent over the previous year. The largest case involved more than 100 million yuan worth of grafting.
According to the meeting, 73 cases involved a sum of more than 1 million yuan each and another 14 cases incurred more than 10 million yuan worth of losses of public property each.
(Xinhua 02/06/2001)
