|
6 provincial-level officials sent to jail in 2005
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-03-11 10:37 In the fight against
corruption and other duty-related crimes, Chinese courts sentenced six
provincial or ministerial officials to prison in 2005, Chief Justice Xiao Yang
said Saturday.
Local courts heard 24,277 cases of embezzlement, bribery and dereliction of
duty, and sentenced 1,932 officials above the county level to prison, said Xiao,
president of the Supreme People's Court, in his report to the annual session of
the Tenth National People's Congress.
Observers said while the number of convicted provincial level officials in
2005 remained the same as in 2004, the number of guilty county level official
rose from 458 to 1,748 and prefecture level official from 73 to 178.
The most notorious convicted provincial or ministerial level officials were
Tian Fengshan, former minister of land and resources who were sentenced to life
imprisonment, and Han Guizhi, former chairman of Heilongjiang Provincial
Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference who was give
death penalty with a two-year reprieve.
The Chief Justice also said that local courts across the country heard
683,997 criminal cases in 2005, 6.17 percent up year-on-year, and sentenced
844,717 cases, or 10 percent more, to prison.
Local courts handled a total of 7,940,549 cases of law, with 1,059,796
billion yuan of money involved, said Xiao.
|
