Environment Officials 'Found Profiting from Project Checks'

(Beijing) – Environmental officials have been found profiting from their work assessing the impact of building projects, the Communist Party's graft buster says on its website.

A special team sent by the party's 205-member Central Committee investigated the Ministry of Environmental Protection from November 26 to December 26. Some officials or their relatives were found to be running companies that profited by handling environmental impact assessments, Ji Lin, the team leader, said in the notice published on February 10 on the Central Discipline Inspection Commission's (CDIC) website.