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China increasing corruption oversight within Communist Party: report

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

[JURIST] The Communist Party of China (CPC) will increase its oversight of the families of government officials to control corruption, the state-controlled China Daily reported Wednesday. A communique released Wednesday by the CPC's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, which is in charge of detecting and preventing corruption in the CPC, ordered other CPC organs to carefully monitor officials to make sure they are not accepting bribes or receiving improper gifts, according to the report. The communique also reportedly ordered increased compliance with a 2006 family reporting regulation requiring senior officials to divulge an array of information about immediate family members, including where they are employed, their investments, and their holdings. Chinese officials have faced a number of corruption scandals over the last year. Former vice president of China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) Huang Songyou stood trial this week on corruption charges, making him the highest ranking judge to face corruption charges since the founding of the People's Republic of China. A verdict has not yet been reached. In November, former judge Wu Xiaoqing, who was awaiting trial on charges that he took bribes, was found dead in his prison cell, reportedly a result of suicide. In March, SPC Chief Justice Wang Shengjun pledged to eliminate corruption in the judiciary.

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on January 15, 2010 (boomark / email).