China's top disciplinary watchdog has named and shamed a number of junior officials for malpractice uncovered in April.
The Communist Party of China's (CPC's) Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) reported on its website on Friday that local discipline inspectors uncovered 116 cases of corruption or violations of Party codes of conduct across the country in April.
In one case, Zhou Qiang, deputy director of the Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Shijingshan District of Beijing, was found to have accepted bribes of 8,800 yuan (1,350 U.S. dollars). He was removed from his post, and placed on probation within the Party for one year.
In another case, a village committee director called Ha Guangju in north China's Tianjin city, embezzled 364,000 yuan from compensations for land acquisition. He was expelled from the Party and his case was transferred to judicial authorities.
Other wrongdoers received punishments ranging from warnings, demotion, expulsion from the CPC, to removal from office. Cases involving suspected criminal offenses have been transferred to judicial organs.
