Five local-level officials investigated for bribery

Five local-level officials have been questioned or arrested over allegations of corruption, the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) said on Thursday.

Wang Baojun, who was former chairman of the municipal committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference of Hengshui in north China's Hebei Province; and Zhong Ji'an, former inspector of Hebei Provincial Commerce Department, have been put under investigation and placed under "coercive measures" for allegedly accepting bribes.

According to the Criminal Procedure Law, coercive measures include summons by force, bail, residential surveillance, detention and arrest. The SPP did not specify what measures had been taken.

SPP said another three officials had been arrested over allegations of bribery. They are Yan Cheng, vice president of a local state-owned bank in Inner Mongolia; Chen Yong, head of the energy bureau in Jiangsu Province; and Zhong Bingming, an official with the Jiangxi provincial poverty alleviation authority.