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Ex-Chongqing Party chief in the dock

Source: Xinhua | 00:01 UTC+8 February 14, 2018 | Print Edition

SUN Zhengcai, former Party secretary of Chongqing Committee of the Communist Party of China, has been charged with bribery, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate said yesterday.

The indictment paper has been delivered to the Tianjin No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court by the first branch of the Tianjin People’s Procuratorate.

Sun is also a former member of the Political Bureau of the 18th Communist Party of China Central Committee.

The SPP transferred Sun’s case to the first branch of Tianjin People’s Procuratorate after completing the investigation according to law.

Sun is accused of taking advantage of his posts to seek profits for others and illegally accepted huge sums of money and property while serving as Party chief of Beijing’s Shunyi District, standing committee member and secretary-general of the CPC Beijing Committee, agriculture minister, Party secretary of Jilin Province, political bureau member of the CPC Central Committee, and Party chief of Chongqing, according to the indictment.

Prosecutors have told Sun of his litigation rights, interrogated him, and listened to his lawyer’s opinions, the SPP said.

Last July, the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) announced that Sun was under investigation. He was expelled from the Party and dismissed from public office by the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee last September. Sun was disqualified as a deputy to the National People’s Congress in November.

The anti-corruption campaign began five years ago. It has led to the downfall of a number of top officials. The CPC said it is committed to securing “a sweeping victory” against corruption.

Since last October’s 19th CPC National Congress, several officials at or above deputy ministerial level and senior military officials have been investigated or punished.

These include former military chief of staff Fang Fenghui, and vice governors of Shaanxi, Shandong and Jiangxi provinces.

In January, the CCDI named a number of grassroots officials implicated in abuses of poverty-relief funds, involving bribe-taking, embezzlement and fraudulently obtaining subsistence allowances.

Last year, nearly 450 people were investigated and punished for fraudulent claims or misappropriation of funds and 730 million yuan (US$115 million) of misused funds recouped, according to the Ministry of Finance and the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development.

The leaders of supervision commissions in 31 Chinese provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, as well as Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, have been elected to ensure that “all public servants exercising public power” are subject to supervision.

A national supervision commission will be established at the first session of the 13th NPC, scheduled to open on March 5.

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