The following are the major facts and figures revealed in the
report on China's procuratorial work in 2006 delivered by Jia
Chunwang, procurator-general of China's Supreme People's
Procuratorate, to the Fifth Session of the Tenth National People's
Congress, on Tuesday:
-- In 2006 Chinese procuratorial organs approved the arrests of
a total of 891,620 suspects for a variety of crimes, and prosecuted
999,086 people.
-- The procuratorial organs issued a total of 18,446 arrest
warrants to people suspected of involving in mafia-like criminal
cliques, with 8,343 prosecuted.
-- The procuratorial organs approved the arrests of 3,729 people
suspected of intellectual property rights violation, and prosecuted
3,634, up 16.7 percent and 12.6 percent respectively, from a year
earlier.
-- The procuratorial organs approved the arrests of 7,974 people
suspected of damaging the environment and resources, and prosecuted
12,240, up 15.4 percent and 24.8 percent.
-- A total of 40,041 government employees were probed by
prosecutors in 2006 for corruption, bribery and dereliction of
duty, of whom 29,966 were brought to court.
-- The procuratorial organs investigated a total of 18,241 key
job-related criminal cases, 623 of them each involving graft and
bribery of more than 1 million yuan (US$128,000).
-- Chinese prosecutors investigated 2,736 government officials
above the county level, including 202 at the prefecture level and
six at the provincial or ministerial level.
-- A total of 9,582 commercial bribery cases involving
government employees were investigated, involving more than 1.5
billion yuan.
-- The procuratorial organs corrected cases of illegally
prolonged detention involving 233 people, and lodged 3,161 protests
against wrong criminal verdicts of the court.
-- A total of 2,987 judicial workers were probed for power abuse
and taking bribery.
-- The procuratorial organs handled a total of 477,596 petitions
submitted through letters and visits from the general public in
2006.
(Xinhua News Agency March 13, 2007)