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Officials still breaching frugality rules despite crackdown

Xinhua, July 29, 2015 Adjust font size:

Breaches of frugality rules such as traveling and dining out on public funds soared in the first half of 2015 despite tough penalties and innumerable investigations.

Disciplinary authorities punished 18,673 officials in 13,920 cases, both figures increasing by more than 4,000 from the same period of last year, according to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI).

Misuse of public vehicles remains the most common rule breach, taking up nearly 30 percent of total cases, while giving out unapproved bonuses has become the second-most common. Seventeen percent of the cases involved unapproved bonuses, the CCDI's statistics show.

Travel and dinning offences respectively accounted for 6.35 percent and 11.6 percent. Cases of travel offenses rose nearly three and a half fold and cases of dinning funded from the public purse quadrupled, it said.

The hike is partly because the CCDI has conducted more frequent inspections, it said.

The first half saw more ministerial-level officials breaching the rules, with the number doubling year on year, according to the CCDI. Endi