China News Service, July 21. On the 21st, Wang Shouan, Director of the Third Procuratorate of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, said that from 2018 to 2019, prosecutors across the country accepted a total of 40,326 persons transferred from supervisory committees at all levels to duty crimes. Among them, 16,092 people were accepted in 2018, and 24,234 people were accepted in 2019, a year-on-year increase of 50.6%. After review, it was decided to prosecute 28,387 people and not to prosecute 954 people.
The Supreme People’s Procuratorate held a press conference on the 21st to report on the work of procuratorial organs in handling duty crime cases since 2018, and issued the twentieth batch of guiding cases.
Wang Shouan pointed out that the case presented the following characteristics as a whole:
Corruption and bribery crime is the main type of official crime. Among the duty crime cases accepted by procuratorial organs, corruption and bribery crimes accounted for more than 80%, and the crimes involved focused on corruption, bribery, bribery, and embezzlement of public funds. Malfeasance and tort crimes accounted for about 10%, and the crimes involved mainly focused on crimes of negligence of duty, abuse of power, crimes of favoritism, etc.
Crimes committed by basic-level public officials account for the vast majority. The level of personnel involved in the case released by the Supreme People's Procuratorate is also in response to this characteristic in general. Among the duty crime cases accepted by procuratorial organs, more than 80% are public officials below the township level. Such crimes mainly occur in areas with intensive funds and weak supervision such as project construction, land acquisition and relocation, funds for benefiting the people, special subsidies, etc., and the increase in crimes committed by the staff of rural grassroots organizations has increased significantly. Corruption and ant corruption cases account for a relatively large proportion, and grassroots public positions Personnel are still a high-risk group of corruption crimes.
The amount of crime in individual cases is extremely large and the impact is very bad. A small number of duty criminals are motivated by gains, frantically accumulating money, regardless of the consequences, and the amount involved in the case is very huge, some of which amount to tens of millions or hundreds of millions. Among them, there are both petty officials and high-ranking officials. For example, Zhao Zhengyong, the former secretary of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee, who recently opened a trial, took 717 million yuan in bribes. These cases have a bad influence and have seriously damaged the image of the party and the government.
Actively applied the special procedures for confiscation of illegal income and handled a number of cases. Actively participate in the international anti-corruption chase and cross-border corruption control of state-owned enterprises, give full play to the warning, education and punishment of illegal income confiscation procedures for criminals fleeing corruption, and confiscate 30 suspects of corruption and bribery who escaped and died in accordance with the law Illegal income application, recovering 556 million yuan of illegal income, to ensure that corrupt criminals are not allowed to take advantage of the economy.
Wang Shouan emphasized that procuratorial organs handle duty crime cases strictly in accordance with the law, and are brave enough to take responsibility and act actively in the fight against corruption. Procuratorates across the country earnestly implement the Criminal Procedure Law and the Supervision Law, firmly support, consciously support, and fully cooperate with the steady progress of the supervision system reform, strengthen communication and consultation, pay attention to coordination, improve mechanisms and systems, and handle cases in strict accordance with the law to ensure the quality and effectiveness of cases, while also building A professional team has accumulated a certain amount of experience in handling cases.
Uphold the party's absolute leadership over the procuratorial work of duty crimes. Further improve the political position, always adhere to the party's absolute leadership over duty crime procuratorial work, truly refine the anti-corruption requirements of the central government, and take punishment of duty crimes in accordance with the law as an important part of implementing a comprehensive and strict governance of the party. Since 2018, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate has repeatedly reported to the Party Central Committee on the handling of duty crime cases, and effectively implemented the party’s policy of strengthening the governance of corruption crimes throughout the entire judicial process, and continuously promoted the work of duty crime procuratorial work to achieve new progress and new achievements. Effectiveness.
Focusing on case handling, maintain a high-pressure situation of punishing corruption. Insist on taking case handling as an important starting point for promoting the development of work. On the basis of ensuring the quality and effectiveness of handling cases as a whole, we should appoint capable personnel, strengthen case handling guidance, focus on handling influential major and complex cases, and maintain a high pressure on corruption crimes. Public prosecutions were instituted against 48 former provincial and ministerial personnel including Sun Zhengcai, Wang Sanyun, Qin Guangrong, and Chen Gang in accordance with the law. In handling cases, procuratorial organs at all levels not only pay attention to cooperating with supervisory organs and judicial organs, and strive to form a joint force in punishing corruption crimes; they also restrict each other in accordance with the law, apply withdrawal and non-prosecution in accordance with the law, and protect the suspects and their defenders in accordance with the law. Litigation rights, strictly control the quality of cases, and strive to achieve the organic unity of political, legal, and social effects in handling official crime cases.
Actively serve to protect the overall situation of the party and the country. Procuratorial organs at all levels have strengthened collaboration with relevant departments, fully cooperated in launching the "three tough battles" and "sweeping criminals and evil" special struggles, and severely cracking down on related official crimes and corruption crimes that act as "protective umbrellas" for underworld forces. Earnestly implement the central government's deployment requirements for promoting the development of the private economy, and implement the criminal policy of combining leniency and strictness with the private enterprises and the directly responsible persons involved in the case, and promote the resumption of work and production of private enterprises to the maximum extent. At the same time, in conjunction with the regulatory loopholes found in the handling of duty crime cases, the procuratorial recommendations were issued in a timely manner to extend the effectiveness of the case and actively serve to protect the overall situation of economic and social development.
Guided by mechanism construction, we will comprehensively strengthen the convergence of supervision and inspection. Doing a good job in linking up the supervision law and the criminal procedure law is a new subject and task facing the procuratorial organs in handling official crimes since the reform of the supervision system. Procuratorial organs at all levels have always put the sound and perfection of the supervisory inspection system and mechanism in a prominent position in their work, and actively did a good job of connecting with supervisory organs at all levels in handling cases. The Supreme People’s Procuratorate and the State Supervision Commission jointly studied the establishment of a cohesive mechanism for handling duty crimes, and issued relevant working documents in a timely manner. The working mechanism is smooth and the operation is standardized. Local supervisory committees and procuratorates at all levels jointly issued a series of regulatory documents to strengthen cooperation and restriction, and strive to promote the effective connection of the supervisory law and the criminal procedure law to ensure the smooth progress of anti-corruption work.