Justice

In the 2000 organs of office of the public prosecutor of all the country they intensified the investigation and demands against the embezzlement crimes, bribe and prevaricato. In the year encausados and 45,113 cases of such crimes were investigated and were recovered in this way more than 4,700 million yuanes that of another form would be economic losses direct for the State.

The accent of the work was put in the investigation of the serious cases and important quantity. The organs of office of the public prosecutor of diverse levels encausaron for the investigation 18,086 cases of embezzlement and acceptance of bribe, including 1,335 cases of extreme superpowers, with more of a million of yuanes involved in each; and 2,680 civil servants of district rank or section were encausados for the investigation, 184 of rank of central or provincial department and seven of province rank, ministry or superior, by crimes committed under protection of their official positions. The investigation and the view of the case of Cheng Kejie, ex- Vice-president of the Permanent Committee of the APN, and others instilled panic in the criminals and patentizaron the firm determination of the Party and the State to punish the corruption. With respect to the case of quantity contraband superpower of the city of Xiamen, they were put under the encausamiento and investigation 169 officials government by the acceptance of bribes and the abuse authority. The office of the public prosecutor organs concluded the investigation of the case of Li Jizhou, old vice-minister of Public Security, that had accepted strong bribes of the smuggler Lai Changxing and others and had abused its power to take part in the investigation of its contraband crimes; and they presented/displayed a public demand against Li they transferred and it to the popular court for his process.

The attack against the bribe crimes intensified. In the 2000, between the 9,872 encausados cases of bribe, 1,367 they were investigated and seen, with an increase of 28% on the previous year.

The investigation and the punishment of cases of prevaricato and infraction were reinforced. The Supreme Popular Office of the public prosecutor made the “Decision on the reinforcing of the work of office of the public prosecutor against the prevaricato and the infraction”. In the 2000 encausados and 7,930 cases of this class were investigated, with an increase of 45% against the previous year. Among them there were 3,360 cases due to the position of “infraction in own benefit” just introduced in the Penal Code, for example, the noncollection of taxes, the collection of taxes below the established thing, the consent of the contraband and the consent of manufacture and sale of adulterated merchandize and bad quality, as well as 1,793 cases in which workers of state organs were worth of their power to infringe the personal and democratic rights of citizens. All this promoted the administration that comes according to the law and from strict way, and fortified the judicial protection of the human rights.

Taking into account the acute problem from the public order and the rampantes crimes from serious violence in some localities, the office of the public prosecutor organs collaborated closely with the pertinent departments, in order to punish by the law the serious penal crimes to attempt against the state security, the economic security and the public order. In the year it was approved to arrest 715,833 suspects of penal crime and public demand against 708,836 individuals appeared.

The hard hand against the delinquency of the organizations of gangster character and the perverse forces sat down. Until January ends of the 2001, the office of the public prosecutor organs had approved to arrest more than 1,500 suspects of these organizations and thus they did possible to sanction by the law a group of delinquents of worse crime.

In the fight against the organization of cult “Falungong”, following the principle of the central authorities formulated for “uniting, educating and to rescue to the absolute majority and to attack the minority according to the law”, the office of the public prosecutor organs decided by the law not to demand against those whose crimes were slight and that showed repentance and, in coordination with the concerning departments, they took to good term the work of education and transformation to help them to know the nature thorough antihuman, antisocial and antiscientific cult of the “Falungong”. At the same time, coming according to the law, they decidedly approved the arrest and the demand against a meager handful of delinquents who, when doing use of that organization, gave to criminal activities such as those to sabotage the implementation of the law, to bring about deaths and to reunite people to sabotage the public order.

In the 2000 19,182 suspects of kidnapping and sale of women and children and 27,666 of contraband were arrested with approval, swindles of taxes and manufacture and sale of adulterated, false merchandize and of bad quality.

In accordance with the law one unfolded the supervision on the encausamiento and investigation of penal cases. With respect to the penal cases that they had to be encausados but without being it, explanation to the public security elements was demanded; if the explanation were not sustainable, it let know to them you would encausaran that them without delay. In the 2000 20,809 cases through the supervision procedures were encausados on the public security elements, and in agreement with the law the problem of the nonencausamiento of cases, the nonexigency of responsibility by crime and of the fine by sentence was rectified, of way like a group of unpunished delinquents were put under the penal process. 14,349 opinions of rectification of the coercive measures appeared inadequate seizures in violation of the law by the public security elements, and were corrected 64,254 illegally prolonged haltings in the investigation, the demand and the process. In Anhui, Hunan, Shanghai and Heilongjiang, the office of the public prosecutor organs implanted the system of warning by count down for the haltings, in order to change the rectification by prevention and to reduce the number of illegally prolonged haltings.

The supervision was harnessed on the judicial process and the execution of pains. In the 2000 3,798 identified verdicts and penal failures like erroneous were protested, of which the courts concluded 1,210 and modified 534. The same year 16,944 civil cases and cases of administrative procedure were protested. By means of the work of supervision on the execution of pains 9,318 opinions for the correction of the mitigation of pains appeared, the conditional freedom and the freedom on one's word with reasons for health in violation of the law.

Crimes of acceptance of bribes against the law and frauds in personal benefit were investigated and punished with rigor. In the 2000 encausados and 4,626 cases of this nature were investigated committed by the judicial personnel, which fomented the impartial execution of the law and the purification of the rows of judicial workers.

The revision of complaints against penal cases was fortified. In the 2000 organs of office of the public prosecutor they took care of a total of 27,975 complaints of this nature, corrected according to the law the related erroneous decisions to 1,443 cases, decided to compensate to the involved ones in 384 penal cases; and as far as the original decisions that were correct, they persuaded with patience and meticulosidad to the presenters of complaints.

With the purpose of on a large scale to serve the operation as the west of the country, the Supreme Popular Office of the public prosecutor wrote up, on the base of investigations and studies, the “Opinions approach the putting in the heat of game of the function of the office of the public prosecutor on a large scale to serve actively the operation as the west”. In the 2000 they were encausados, investigated and treated than 300 cases more happened in the important projects of construction and the environmental protection, as well as about abuse authority in the administration of bottoms and materials destined to the poor population and the victims of the natural misfortunes; and with approval 3,891 suspects of destruction of infrastructures of transport, energy and telecommunications and of the ecological system were arrested. In agreement with the law the rights were protected and I interest legal of the main bodies of the market and the competition between the economic sectors of different forms from property was promoted equally, of way on a large scale to prepare a good atmosphere of legal order for the sake of the operation of the region of the west.

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