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Chinese prosecutors probe 54,000 "tigers", "flies" for graft in 2015: report

Xinhua, March 13, 2016 Adjust font size:

Chinese prosecutors began investigations into 54,249 officials, including both high-ranking "tigers" and lowly "flies," for suspected involvement in 40,834 graft cases in 2015, a report said Sunday.

All in all, prosecutors looked into 4,490 graft, bribery and embezzlement cases involving more than 1 million yuan each, said a report on the work of the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) to be delivered by Procurator-General Cao Jianming on Sunday. Endi