Highlights of work report on China´s Supreme People´s Procuratorate

Source: Xinhua | 03-10-2009 15:44

BEIJING, March 10 (Xinhua) -- China's Prosecutor-General Cao Jianming is to deliver a report on the work of the Supreme People's Procuratorate Tuesday afternoon at the Second Session of the 11th National People's Congress.

The following are the highlights of Cao's report, the text of which was distributed to media before the opening of the third plenary meeting of the annual parliamentary session:

WHAT'S DONE IN 2008

-- Approved the arrest of 952,583 suspects of various crimes and prosecuted 1,143,897, an increase of 3.5 percent and 5.7 percent, respectively, from the previous year.

-- Investigated 33,546 cases concerning graft, malfeasance and infringement on people's civil rights, involving 41,179 people; prosecuted 33,953 people involved in 26,684 such cases. Among the total there were 17,594 major graft cases, 3,211 major cases of malfeasance and infringement on people's civil rights, and 2,687 officials at the county level and above, including 181 at the prefecture level and four at the province or ministry level.

-- Investigated 10,315 cases of commercial bribery committed by government workers, involving a total sum of more than 2.1 billion yuan .