5,200 rural officials prosecuted this year

Almost 5,200 rural officials were prosecuted for job-related crimes in the first 10 months of the year, the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) said yesterday.

Prosecutors across the country investigated 10,752 officials, including 2,600 village heads, suspected of committing crimes related to land management, construction, agriculture and forestation, it said in a press release.

Of the 5,196 people prosecuted, most were cadres from rural primary organizations, a group that accounted for 43 percent of all those investigated.