Prosecutors investigating more official crimes

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-07-10 00:12

BEIJING -- Chinese prosecutors investigated 16,725 criminal cases involving officials during the first five months of the year, up 8.3 percent year-on-year, the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) said on Wednesday.

The SPP said 20,294 officials were involved in these cases, up 9.6 percent.

Prosecutors have stepped up preventive efforts against job-related crimes, encouraged the wider use of "bribery records" that list such cases, and strengthened education among officials to enhance anti-graft work, it said.

Cao Jianming, procurator-general of the SPP, told a national meeting of prosecutors on Wednesday that they should strengthen investigation and prevention of official crimes in the remainder of the year.

They should maintain justice while enforcing the law, which the public cared about most, and official crimes behind injustice should be severely punished, he said.

Prosecutors should also crack down on crimes generally, strengthen the manner of dealing with public petitions related to prosecuting bodies and maintain social stability in Tibet and other Tibetan-inhabited regions, to ensure security for the Beijing Olympics, he said.