China’s top corruption-buster warns of ‘risk of rebound’ in cases
- CCDI will keep up pressure on extravagant spending ahead of festive season and says corruption is becoming harder to detect
- It comes 11 years after ‘eight directives’ to improve conduct in the party and government were introduced by Chinese leader Xi Jinping
In a post on its website and social media accounts on Monday, the CCDI said that in the first 10 months of the year it investigated nearly 80,000 violations of the anti-extravagance regulations and some 114,238 people were placed under investigation and received a warning. Of those, 80,096 have faced party or administrative disciplinary action.
The watchdog also said corruption was taking new forms and becoming harder to detect.
“At present, the soil where unhealthy tendencies can thrive still exists, as does the risk of a rebound in corruption cases,” the CCDI post said.
It said the “four forms of decadence” had become “better hidden or transformed” and the watchdog called for more investigation into the specific corruption activities taking place across regions and industries so that “precise supervision” could be carried out.
