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Corruption fight fruitful: top judge
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LEADERS of courts around China should resign if they are found directly responsible for important illegal practices or irregularities within their jurisdictions, the country's top judge told the National People's Congress (NPC) on Saturday.
In his report on the work of the Supreme People's Court he delivered at the current session of the NPC, Xiao Yang, president of the surpeme court, said the country's courts will introduce an accountability system and vowed to stamp out corruption in courts.
If these judges still cling to power, the People's Congress of the appropriate level should remove them from their posts, Xiao added.
He said 34 officials in the country's courts who were found to have breached rules and regulations last year were investigated and punished.
Also last year, 1,292 judges in the country were punished for violation of Party and administrative rules, and 46 others were prosecuted for violation of the law, according to Xiao.
Xiao admitted that some judicial workers, thinking they are privileged, abuse powers and seek personal benefits in handling cases. He also criticized some higher courts for leaving lower courts caught in administrative interventions.
Han Zhubin, procurator-general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP), told NPC in his work report that 494 rule-breaking prosecutors were investigated and punished in the past year as he unveiled a package of reforms aimed at building a clean and efficient procuratorate system.
Han said in the past year, 102 chief procurators and deputy chiefs in local procuratorates were also penalized for violation of Party and administrative disciplines and laws, and five provincial-level procurators-general were called to the SPP to make self-criticisms.
(SD-Xinhua)
Anti-corruption battle fruitful
CHINESE courts sentenced 17,931 corrupt officials last year. Among them three were high-ranking officials of provincial-level and above, including Cheng Kejie, former vice NPC chief.
The top procuratorate investigated and prosecuted almost 3,000 officials of the county-level and above. Some 170 government functionaries involved in the notorious Xiamen smuggling ring were probed and punished.
In the past year, Chinese courts concluded 847 smuggling cases, up by 122 per cent from the previous year.(SD-Xinhua)
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