Chinese Prosecutors probed 9,582 commercial bribery cases
involving public servants in 2006 Xinhua has learnt from the
Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP).
As much as 1.5 billion yuan (US$192 million) were involved in
these cases, the SPP said.
The SPP's crackdown on commercial bribery had been focusing in
15 areas including land sales, social security funds, medical care,
government purchase, the bankruptcy and restructuring of
state-owned enterprises.
The investigation of several cases involving high-ranking
officials has helped check the spreading of commercial bribery, SPP
sources said.
Among them is Zhang Enzhao, former president of the China
Construction Bank, who was sentenced to 15 years in prison in
November 2006, for taking bribes totaling 4.2 million yuan (about
US$538,000).
Xu Fangming, former director of the finance department of
China's Ministry of Finance, was sentenced to 13 years in prison in
November 2006for taking bribes worth of 2.15 million yuan.
(Xinhua News Agency February 21, 2007)