Xinhua report in Global Times, Sept 20, 2017
The Communist Party of China (CPC)’s top anti-graft watchdog said Monday that 5,419 officials have been punished for violating Party austerity rules in August.
The officials were involved in 3,859 cases, according to the website of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI).
Awarding unauthorized bonuses was the most common offense, followed by giving or accepting gifts and misusing public vehicles.
A total of 40,818 officials involved in 28,965 cases were punished in the first eight months of 2017, the CCDI said.
The CPC released its eight-point rules on austerity in late 2012 to reduce undesirable work practices.
The CCDI also has a monthly reporting system on the implementation of the rules within provincial-level governments, central Party and governmental agencies, centrally administered State-owned enterprises and central financial institutions.http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1067236.shtml
124 arrested for fraud in northeast China: Xinhua report in Global Times, Sept 20, 2017
A total of 124 people in connection with more than 280 Internet and telecom fraud cases were apprehended in northeast China’s Jilin Province, local police said Tuesday.
Police started investigating in May, when a resident in Liaoyuan City claimed she had lost more than 540,000 yuan (82,000 US dollars) of investment in an online company in Shaanxi Province.
Police went to Changchun, Qingdao, Changsha and Xi’an to investigate and located the den in an office building in Xi’an after retrieving more than 20,000 pieces of transaction data and 80 hours of surveillance footage.
In late August, police in Liaoyuan and Xi’an arrested 124 suspects in a joint operation. More than 200 computers and 100 scripts for cheating victims out of money were seized. The suspects were taken back to Liaoyuan in early September.
Preliminary investigation showed the ringleader, identified by the surname Zheng, set up the company in 2016 and lured fresh graduates to join the company with false promises of high pay.
They drew online investors in the name of spot trading, which turned out to be fake. The cases involved nearly 100 million yuan (about 15 million US dollars).
Further investigation is under way.www.globaltimes.cn/content/1067116.shtml
“Red Notice” fugitive returns to China: Xinhua report in Global Times, Sept 20, 2017
A female fugitive wanted for graft under an Interpol red notice returned from the United States to China and turned herself in on Tuesday, said Shanghai police.The 59-year-old suspect surnamed Min was previously a saleswoman at a cable company in Shanghai. She was accused of embezzling 300,000 yuan (45,800 US dollars) of the company’s fund and fled to the United States in 2001.
In 2014, Interpol issued a “red notice” for Min, who has US nationality. She was persuaded by Shanghai police to return and hand herself in. She flew back to Shanghai on Tuesday evening.
The arrest is part of Operation Fox Hunt 2017, a campaign to catch economic fugitives hiding overseas. This year, Shanghai police have arrested 64 suspects under the operation.http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1067284.shtml
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