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Wang Zhanxiang?] must bear the cost of the home improvements in their respective residences" (Peking home service 0930 gmt 2 Aug 89).

One of the two others is the secretary of the bank's party committee and the other is the former director of the bank's party disciplinary group. "Only officials above the vice ministerial level can enjoy the privilege of fitting up private houses with public money" but "the three bank officials all rank at bureau level” (Xinhua in English 0815 gmt 2 Aug 89),

Supervision Ministry's handling of corruption cases Supervision departments in China "received" 65,000 cases during the first half of 1989. Some 15,000 cases have been dealt with and 5,500 people have been "punished according to administrative regulations" while another 922 people have been "sentenced to criminal penalty". About 40% of the cases involved corruption, taking bribes, extortion and profiteering. The Ministry of Supervision is now concentrating on investigating cases concerning public servants, “including ranking officials at ministerial and provincial level". Since last year 16 special groups have been sent across the nation to look into official profiteering cases. Over 2,100 such cases have been investigated, about 400 of which have been dealt with and the judicial organs have imposed criminal penalties on 125 persons, including 65 officials at county level. (Xinhua in English 0711 gmt 3 Aug 89)

Shanghai

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finance

officials officials in

arrested Fourteen trade and financial Shanghai were "arrested or taken in for questioning" concerning embezzlement and bribery in 14 separate cases in the first half of 1989. Of the 14 officials of the Shanghai municipal departments of foreign economic relations and trade, seven involved more than 10,000 yuan each, a local police official said today. Lu Bingkang, a cashier in the Bank of China's Shanghai branch, illegally overdrew 37,400 yuan with a Great Wall credit card and "counter-feited 10,000 US dollars". He was sentenced to six years imprisonment with one year's deprivation of political rights. (Xinhua in English 0735 gmt 29 Jul 89)

Canton Military Region deals with "economic criminal" cases This year the discipline inspection committee, military procuratorate, military court and auditing department of the Canton Military Region dealt with "some economic criminal cases", confirming 26 cases of embezzlement, bribery and speculation, with 13 people convicted and 23 penalised by party and administrative disciplinary measures; more than 300,000 yuan of illicit money was retrieved. Those punished included the chief of a catering office, the head of the guesthouse of the Guangxi military district, the cashier of a Guangdong Military Region guesthouse, a deputy staff officer at the battalion level of the logistics department of the Hunan military district, all were expelled from the party. (Canton, Guangdong provincial service 1000 gmt 20 Jul 89)

Guangdong

corruption

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arrested for bribery

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Of the criminal offenders arrested for corruption and bribery in the first half of 1989 in Guangdong,

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14 were cadres at the section level and three were cadres at the bureau level in party and government institutions and 103 are enterprise leading cadres such as factory directors and managers. (Zhongguo Xinwen She, Peking, in Chinese 1423 gmt 28 Jul 89)

Hainan "collective corruption" cases A number of corrupt officials have been arrested in Hainan. At a conference on clean government on 22nd July, Dong Fanguo, secretary of the discipline inspection commission of the Hainan provincial CCP committee, announced two major economic criminal cases involving leading cadres. One was the collective case at Yinggehai saltworks, involving embezzlement and bribe- taking. The other was the case of Ninghan corporation reselling an import permit at a profit. (Xinhua Hongkong service, Peking, in Chinese 0440 gmt 22 Jul 89)

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Jilin leading cadres disciplined for corruption 27th July the Jilin provincial CCP committee and provincial government at a meeting of cadres under the direct jurisdiction of the provincial government announced decisions on a number of leading cadres who had violated the law and discipline. The 11 cases "openly dealt with” involved 14 people including a vice-governor, a department director, three deputy department directors and nine section chiefs. Of the 14 cadres including Wang Hongmu, former president of the provincial higher people's court, Li Sen, director of the provincial department of water resources and Wang Yongqing, deputy director of the provincial economic relations and trade commission some resorted to bribery and embezzled public money and property, some disregarded state policy stipulation and disobeyed orders and defied prohibitions, some bought private houses with public money and some did business to seek gain in violation of state policies. "Party and administrative disciplinary measures have been taken against them" (Peking ‘Renmin Ribao' in Chinese 31 Jul 89)

"abusing

Sichuan cadre investigated for position" Lu Senling, director of the Sichuan provincial personnel bureau personnel bureau, has been suspended from duty to be investigated by the provincial CCP committee and the provincial government for "abusing position and powers for personnal gain". Lu Senling, was formly Luzhou city party secretary and was given the directorship of the Sichuan provincial personnel bureau in September 1988. (Xinhua in Chinese 1233 gmt 22 Jul 89)

Sichuan mayor disciplined over illegal purchase of cars Several senior officials in the city of Deyang including the mayor and head of the city's public security bureau are being investigated for purchasing 261 registered cars in 1988; making up more than 50% of the total number of cars registered in the same period. The provincial department of supervision carried out an investigation of this case last October immediately after receiving letters of accusation from the masses. Now the main problems of this case have been made clear. The supervision department confiscated 83 saloon cars and imposed fines on another 148 that were illegally purchased by the city. The other 30 cars will be dealt with according to "normal procedures”. Yan Rugao, the mayor of