Beijing prosecutors have obtained convictions of 102 bureau-head
level officials on corruption and bribery charges over the past
five years, a top prosecutor said on Thursday.
The prosecutors handled 270 corruption cases each involving sums
exceeding 1 million yuan (about 137,000 U.S. dollars) during that
period, the official said.
"A total of 1,627 corruption cases have gone through proceedings
involving 1,885 civil servants over the past five years," said Mu
Ping, acting chief prosecutor of the Beijing People's
Procuratorate, speaking at the first session of the 13th Beijing
Municipal People's Congress.
The cases have brought down many high-ranking officials
including Bi Yuxi, former head of a state-owned highway building
company, Ma De, former party secretary of Suihua City in
northeastern Heilongjiang Province; Zheng Xiaoyu, former director
of China's Food and Drug Administration and Tian Fengshan, former
minister of Land and Resources.
Mu said that the prosecutor's office had stepped up
investigations of alleged malfeasance concerning Beijing's Olympic
construction projects. It has brought charges against 14 of 39
suspects in cases involving the theft of construction materials at
Olympic sports venues or graft connected with product licenses.
(Xinhua News Agency January 24, 2008)