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Nearly 5 million members of the Communist Party of China have been investigated for alleged corruption offenses in the last decade.
80,000 Chinese officials have admitted acts of corruption to the authorities in the last 5 years
Nearly 5 million members of the Communist Party of China (PCC) have been investigated for alleged crimes of corruption in the last decade and formal criminal charges have been filed against 553 people.
Also, close to 207.00 party officials have been punished in some way since their leader and country’s president, Xi Jinping, came to power years ago, reported the undersecretary of the Disciplinary Committee and Match Inspection, Xiao Pei, quoted by AP.
According to the statement, around 80.00 members of the party recognized voluntarily
his involvement in acts of corruption before the control bodies in the last 5 years, thanks to “targeted policies and high pressure”.
Xiao added that most of those arrested had committed this type of crime for a long time, while the proportion of people caught in bribery for the first time stood at 11 %. “The spread of corruption has been resolutely contained”, Xiao assured.
In January, during a meeting of the Central Commission for Disciplinary Control of the PCC, the president demanded that the body adopt an approach of zero tolerance against corruption. Xi stressed that his anti-corruption campaign over the past decade has achieved “historical and innovative achievements
“, as “certain harmful trends have been brought under control that had not been controlled for a long time, many problems have been solved” and serious potential dangers for the party, the country and the armed forces have been “rooted out”.
However, the president also warned that the war was not yet won and that anti-corruption investigators should intensify their actions, since corruption is increasingly difficult to detect.
