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Senior police officers arrested in Chongqing
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-09-25 19:33 CHONGQING: Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality's legislature Friday approved the arrest of two senior police officers on bribery allegations. The standing committee of the People's Congress in Chongqing voted to approve the Chongqing Municipal Procuratorate's arresting Peng Changjian and Xu Qiang, who are also deputies of the congress.
Chongiqng Procurator Yu Min said Peng was suspected of taking bribes and Xu suspected of embezzlment and taking and offering bribes. Peng allegedly took 820,000 yuan ($120,000) and 100,000 HK dollars ($12,900) in bribes and offered assistance to illegal business operations. Xu allegedly offered the former executive deputy director of the Chongiqng public security bureau Wen Qiang 280,000 yuan in 2006 for promotion. He accepted a car worth 138,000 yuan last year from a police officer in Dianjiang who wanted a promotion, and embezzled 80,000 yuan in January this year. Also on Friday, the standing committee of the People's Congress in Chongqing decided to dismiss 10 judges including a former vice president of the Chongqing higher court Zhang Tao. The 10 judges have been handed over to judicial processes for allegedly taking huge amounts in bribes. Zhang Tao, 46, began working in Chongqing in 1997 and served as the vice president of the Chongqing Municipal Higher People's Court from 2002. |
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