3,214 Chinese officials probed for breach of duty

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Press Trust of India Beijing
Last Updated : Dec 05 2015 | 4:13 PM IST
Chinese prosecutors have investigated 3,214 officials at county-level or above for dereliction of duty from January to August of 2015, China's Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) has said.
The number of the probed officials saw an increase of 17.9 per cent year on year, said Chen Lianfu, a senior level official with the SPP, yesterday.
The SPP has ordered prosecutors nationwide to rectify 148 cases that were improperly handled in a one-year campaign launched in December 2014, said Chen, adding 107 cases have been closed, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Chen attributed such malpractice to some prosecutors' reckless pursuit of quantity of cases, rather than quality.
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First Published: Dec 05 2015 | 4:13 PM IST

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