BEIJING, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – China’s top anti-graft authority has
punished two of its own senior officials for corruption and adopted new rules to supervise its investigators more strictly, state media said Monday.
The new regulations, passed at the annual meeting of the ruling
Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) over the weekend, seek to clarify how the country’s 500,000 or so corruption investigators should deal with tip-offs, case management and confiscated assets, the China Daily newspaper said.
The body also decided that two of its former senior officials, Wang
Zhongtian and Li Jianbo, would be punished for serious “disciplinary
violations”, the official Xinhua news agency said without giving details.
Wang was removed from his post, while Li was given a serious warning
and ordered to resign.
Government corruption is rampant in China, and President Xi Jinping
has presided over a much-publicised anti-graft campaign since coming to power, which has seen more than one million officials punished in what some compare to a political purge.
Around 410,000 officials, 76 of whom ranked at the ministerial level
or above, were punished in 2016, the China Daily said.
“The spread of corruption has been effectively contained and the
battle against corruption has gained crushing momentum. The objective of ensuring officials do not dare to be corrupt has been basically achieved,” Xinhua quoted Xi as saying on Friday.