Authorities in Guangdong Province have arrested, prosecuted and
punished 75 prefecture-level and 706 county-level Party and
government officials over the past five years.
Provincial prosecutors announced the figures at their recent
annual conference, saying they will never allow the province to
become a hotbed of corruption.
They also promised to tackle more major cases of graft in the
coming months.
Investigators recovered more than 2.2 billion yuan ($300
million) from 8,259 corruption cases, involving 9,131 local
officials during the period.
Meanwhile, procuratorate departments worked with police to
capture 295 fugitive suspects, including some who had fled
overseas.
Yu Zhendong, formerly the head of the Kaiping city branch of the
Bank of China, was sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2006 after
being repatriated from the United States.
Yu had collaborated with Xu Chaofan and Xu Guojun, two bank
managers, in embezzling $82.5 million from the bank.
Public prosecutors in Guangdong province approved the arrests of
502,764 suspected criminals during the five-year period. Of that
number, 477,098 were prosecuted, or about one-tenth of the national
total.
(China Daily January 15, 2008)