A record in China: 56 Chinese Communist Party officials prosecuted for corruption in 2024, a quarter more than last year. Xi Jinping’s crusade against embezzlement is intensifying, because since coming to power in 2013, the Chinese president has vowed to purge the corrupt from the power apparatus… By all means.
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Fallen this year: the Minister of Agriculture, dismissed in May, excluded from the Communist Party in November and arrested around ten days ago; the general director of sports administration and president of the Olympic Committee; or the former head of Chinese justice…
The anti-corruption agency complies with the directives of Xi Jinpingwho asked him in 2022 to focus on the biggest fish.
The explosion of procedures in 2024 also targets the aeronautics sector. Several dozen civilian aviation and defense executives implicated, including in sensitive areas such as research and development of new missiles.
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The army has not escaped the purge: two former defense ministers indicted, several generals stripped of their ranks. The central government wants to regain control of contracts for the purchase and sale of military equipment, where bribes are commonplace.
Finally, there are four state bankers indicted. And some rising stars caught red-handed, like the 52-year-old deputy mayor of Beijing, accused of having accepted sumptuous gifts in exchange for administrative favors.
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