Sun Hongzhi, former vice minister of the State Administration for Industry & Commerce, stood trial on Thursday for taking bribes, embezzlement of public funds and holding a huge amount of property with unidentified sources.
Zhang Wenxiong, a member of the standing committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Hunan Provincial Committee, is being investigated for "severe disciplinary violations," the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) has said.
Yao Zhongmin, former senior executive of China Development Bank, has been placed under investigation by the top prosecuting authority for alleged bribery, the Supreme People's Procuratorate announced on Monday.
In a deepening of China's anti-corruption campaign, a high-ranking official accused of taking large bribes will, for the first time, have no chance of parole after receiving a suspended death sentence under the nation's revised Criminal Law.
In a new focus in the hunt for corrupt officials who have fled overseas, police will not only bring fugitives back to China to face justice, but will also emphasize recovering their ill-gotten assets, the Ministry of Public Security said.
Prosecutors have charged three former vice-ministerial officials for taking huge bribes, one of them the brother of Ling Jihua, a corrupt former State-level leader, the top procuratorate announced on Sunday.
As the G20 throws the spotlight on global anti-corruption efforts, China has released fresh data on its progress in capturing former officials accused of fleeing abroad with billions in public money.
Party officials' everyday performances and reputations among the public will be considered to prevent unqualified, corrupt officials from being promoted, according to a new directive released on Monday.
One-third of the people listed by Interpol as China's 100 most-wanted corrupt officials and businesspeople have returned to the country to face justice and atone for their crimes. Zhang Yi reports.
Guangdong, China's economic powerhouse on the country's southern seaboard, has become the latest province to scrap the special accounts created for officials to anonymously deposit bribe payments that they had accepted.
Following the implementation in January of harsher rules against bribes and gifts, provincial governments are abolishing special accounts that have been misused by officials to hide ill-gotten gains.
Sui Fengfu, former deputy head of the Heilongjiang Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee, stood trial on corruption charges at a court in Shenyang, Liaoning Province Thursday.
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