Over 40 Senior Provincial Officials Turn Themselves In to Graft-Buster

What’s new: More than 40 senior provincial officials so far this year have voluntarily surrendered to the authorities for suspected violations of Communist Party discipline and law, the party’s top internal discipline body said in a statement Monday.

The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said some 42,000 allegedly corrupt officials “in awe” of the party’s antigraft campaign have given themselves up since the 19th Party Congress in 2017.

Why it matters: The announcement came days after Liu Chuan, a retired vice-ministerial level official and former party chief of Beijing Normal University, on Thursday turned himself in for suspected corruption, the latest such case that caused “strong concern,” according to the statement.

Those officials who have recently given themselves up include Yang Yujun, former chief procurator of Shanghai’s Pudong New Area; Huang Tiansheng, former party chief of the political and legal commission of Yunfu, South China’s Guangdong province; and Hui Congbing, former deputy party chief of the law enforcement apparatus in the eastern province of Shandong, the statement said.

Liu Yiqiang, a professor at the Communist Party’s Central Party School in Beijing, said in the statement that such cases reflected “the inevitable results of the anticorruption campaign’s high pressure,” as well as the “laser-focused supervision” of disciplinary watchdogs.

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Contact reporter Lu Zhenhua (zhenhualu@caixin.com) and editor Michael Bellart (michaelbellart@caixin.com)

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