Top Prosecutor Lauds Work of Procuratorial Departments

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Top Prosecutor Lauds Work of Procuratorial Departments

Procuratorial departments across China have made all-around achievements in combating various crimes over the past five years, top Chinese prosecutor Han Zhubin said Saturday in Beijing.

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Procuratorial departments across China have made all-around achievements in combating various crimes over the past five years, top Chinese prosecutor Han Zhubin said Saturday in Beijing.

Han, who is procurator-general of China's Supreme People's Procuratorate, made the remarks when addressing a national conference attended by high-level prosecutors across the country, which started Saturday.

Reviewing the work in the past five years, Han said the procuratorial departments have enthusiastically participated in fighting severe crimes, especially violence, terrorism, smuggling and tax-evasion, thus safeguarding social stability.

From January 1998 to November 2002, procuratorial departments across the country approved to arrest more than 3.53 million criminal suspects, of whom over 3,400 were involved in organized gang crimes and over 470,000 were suspected of committing severe crimes like murder, explosion, robbery and kidnapping.

The departments filed public prosecution against more than 3.57 million criminal suspects during the same period, he said, and have given adequate attention to cracking down on crimes like graft, bribery and misuse of public funds by governmental officials.

China has carried out campaigns to combat corruption, which became rampant in the 1980s. The procuratorial departments have taken the duty to crack down on corruption, and special offices shouldering this duty have been set up even at the county level across the country.

Over the past five years, the procuratorial departments have handled more than 200,000 criminal cases involving governmental officials, including 5,500 major cases involving bribery or misuse of public funds of over one million yuan (about 120,000 US dollars). More than 12,000 county-level head officials or higher have been sued, including 25 ministerial-level officials, according to Han.

He said the procuratorial departments have set up mechanisms preventing governmental officials from committing crimes and they have also strengthened supervision on lawsuits in a bid to uphold justice.

Over the past five years, the departments, which Han has streamlined over the past five years to improve efficiency, have urged relevant departments to file over 35,000 cases they had failed to file, arrest more than 49,000 suspects they failed to arrest, and correct wrong convictions in over 17,000 criminal cases.

Han said more than 24,000 police officers and officials from judicial departments have been investigated in the past five years thanks to the supervision of the procuratorial departments.

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