China's prosecutors investigated 41,531 officials in 32,439 cases of embezzlement, bribery, dereliction of duty and other work-related crimes last year, the top prosecutorial body said Friday.

Among the investigated, 32,176 were implicated in cases of embezzlement and bribery, while 9,355 were in connection to dereliction of duty or infringement of people's rights, Qiu Xueqiang, deputy procurator general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, told Xinhua.