Chinese Authorities Sack an Entire Environmental Protection Bureau for Corruption Misdeeds

Chinese Authorities Sack an Entire Environmental Protection Bureau for Corruption Misdeeds
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Olivia Li
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Local authorities in Suining City, Sichuan Province recently punished ten cadres at the city’s Environmental Protection Bureau for graft and corruption, collecting from them 6.32 million yuan ($945,000) which they embezzled.

According to an April 17 report from state-run Chinese media The Cover, the local anti-corruption watchdog of Suining City received numerous reports from local companies since the end of 2012, accusing cadres at the city’s Environmental Protection Bureau of corruption. The watchdog commission thus initiated an investigation in December 2017, and found out that all the high- and mid-level cadres in the bureau were involved in corruption.