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Former provincial secretary probed
(China Daily)
Updated: 2004-02-19 23:50 The Former Party Secretary of Guizhou Province,
Liu Fangren, is now under investigations by the Beijing Municipal People's
Procuratorate, said prosecutor general Xu Haifeng in a report to the 12th
Beijing Municipal People's Congress Thursday.
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| Liu Fangren [file] | The
report was one of several presented to top legislators Thursday.
Liu is suspected of having received bribes of at least 1.6 million yuan
(US$190,000) and US$19,900 from local entrepreneurs between 1996-2003.
Xu did not give any more details on the case, which was assigned to his
department by the Supreme People's Procuratorate.
The Beijing Municipal People's Procuratorate is well-known for handling
notorious corruption cases, including the prosecution of the former president of
the China Construction Bank Wang Xuebing; the former governor of Yunnan Province
Li Jiating; and the former president of the Guangdong Provincial High People's
Court Mai Chongkai.
The Supreme People's Procuratorate sometimes transfer jurisdiction of
corruption investigations to avoid conflicts of interest and confessions given
in collusion, sources said.
In his report Thursday, Xu announced that the procuratorate handled 335
corruption cases last year, including 79 cases involving more than 1 million
yuan (US$121,000) each.
A total of 386 suspects were investigated, including 20 officials above the
bureau level. Nine were officials working for judicial departments, said Xu.
Economic losses of 290 million yuan (US$35 million) were recouped through the
procuratorate's efforts, said sources.
Besides Xu, the president of the Beijing High People's Court Qin Zheng'an and
the director of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal People's
Congress Yu Junbo, also gave their reports to the city's top legislators for
approval.
Local courts at various levels in Beijing have concluded 861 intellectual
property rights lawsuits last year, rising 27.6 per cent from the figure of
2002, according to Qin Zheng'an.
"Lawsuits involving software copyright, domain names and database have
increased by a large number in Beijing after China's entry to the World Trade
Organization in December of 2001," Qin said.
Meanwhile, a total of 335 related overseas cases were concluded last year,
according to the president, who did not compare the figure with the previous
year.
In accordance with the real estate industry boom in the capital city, real
estate-related lawsuits increased by 39.6 per cent last year, reaching 3,948.
In another development, the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal
People's Congress, the city's top legislative body drafted seven local
regulations last year, revised four and abolished two.
A five-year legislation layout was passed last year and 54 legislative items
will be completed during the coming five years.
The layout has adopted 36 recommendations from the public, according to Yu
Junbo.
Yu also said that 12 legislative items will be included in this year's agenda
of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal People's Congress.
They include the regulation on historic and cultural relics protection,
traffic management regulation and animal quarantine regulation.
Two regulations will be revised this year. They are the tourism management
and cultural relics protection regulations.
It was known Thursday that 46 per cent of the 1,373 recommendations put
forward by congress deputies during the first session of the 12th Beijing
Municipal People's Congress held last year, have been adopted by governmental
departments in the past year.
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