2010-07-14 21:23

BEIJING - China's prosecutors have recovered a total of 31.26 billion yuan ($4.62 billion) through investigation and prosecution of corruption and bribery cases from 2005 to May of this year, according to the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP).

Procuratorial departments nationwide placed 146,570 corruption and bribery cases on file involving more than 170,000 people, according to figures released at a national conference to fight corruption and work-related crimes held Wednesday.

Among those investigated, 13,192 officials were at or above the county level. Further, 8,776 of the total number of cases on file involved funds of more than 1 million yuan, according to the SPP.

The prosecution offices apprehended 6,148 fugitives in connection to corruption and bribery cases during this period, including 71 who were then living abroad.