Shanghai cracks nearly 1,500 bribery cases
15 June 2007
Discipline inspectors and law enforcement agencies in Shanghai dealt with 1,468 commercial bribery cases, involving about US$64.3 million in the 15 months ending April this year, authorities said on Thursday, Xinhua (in Chinese) reported. Officials in Shanghai's administrative departments, 106,000 enterprises and state-run organizations have voluntarily turned in accepted bribes worth US$2.2 million so far, the office said. The office did not say how many people were involved in these cases. China has dealt with 21,889 cases of commercial bribery involving US$676 million up to last April since it started an anti-corruption campaign in 2005, according to official statistics.