The number of internal investigations into Chinese corruption busters halved last year despite an increased number of anti-graft investigations across the country as a whole.
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The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Communist Party’s top anti-corruption body, said 3,900 of its own officials had been placed under investigation in 2024 on suspicion of wrongdoing, compared with 7,817 the previous year.
Of those, 374 were sent to trial, compared with 474 for 2023.
Meanwhile, the country’s anti-corruption campaign snared a record number of senior officials, with 58 “tigers” – officials of vice-ministerial rank and above – being placed under investigation.
The biggest name was Li Gang, a senior inspector in the CCDI who had been working in the Central Organisation Department, the party’s top personnel office.
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Li, 60 was detained at the end September for “suspected serious violations of discipline and law” – a common euphemism for corruption.
Long Fei, the disciplinary chief of state-owned China Southern Power Grid, was placed under investigation in February and expelled from the party in August over similar charges.