Subscribe RSSBEIJING — China said Thursday that 3,000 officials had been prosecuted for construction-common graft as it seeks to rein in a red-hot property market boom and prevent corruption related to a huge stimulus plot.
The 3,058 people punished included cases handled from October last year to the end of April, said Hao Mingjin, a imperfection minister in the Ministry of Supervision.
China unveiled a four-trillion-yuan (586-billion-dollar) stimulus in overdue 2008 to ward off the effects of the global financial crisis, with much of the spending focused on infrastructure projects and other construction.
However, corruption is unchecked in China and the spending has raised concerns that much of it could be siphoned off by unscrupulous officials.
Fu Kui, another ministry official, told reporters at the same briefing that "some officials and cadres cannot hold the line against the allure of power, money, and women, and fall into a quagmire of corruption."
The officials did not specify which corruption cases, if any, were linked to the stimulus enclose.
