The meeting of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China review and passed the amendments to the criminal law, revise and improve the regulations for bribery crimes, and "punish" from serious bribery, and increase criminal accountability.
According to China News Service, the Fourteenth National People's Congress Standing Committee meeting on Friday (December 29) was considered and approved and passed the amendment to the Criminal Law (12). The amendment was eight, and the actual amendments were seven.Four of them involving punishment of bribery crimes, and three articles involving corruption crimes within the punishment of private enterprises.The amendment will be implemented from March 1 next year.
The person in charge of the Criminal Law Office of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress said that the amendment was targeted to "severely punish" some serious bribes and increase criminal accountability.
The person in charge said, "Affected by various factors, there is a situation where bribery and punishment are weak in practice." This revision was amended in the criminal law amendment (9) passed in 2015 (9).Based on another important modification of bribery crimes.
The "heavy punishment" for serious bribery is mainly reflected in three aspects.The first is to further clarify some serious bribery and increase criminal accountability, such as bribery or bribery multiple people; bribery in national staff; bribery in key national projects and major projects;Promoting and adjusting bribes; bribery on supervision, administrative law enforcement, and judicial staff; bribery in the fields of ecological environment, financial finance, safety production, food and drugs, disaster prevention and relief, social security, education, medical care, etc.Illegal income is used for bribery.
The second is to adjust the punishment of the unit's bribery; the third is to make corresponding adjustments to the punishment of other bribery crimes, and make a good connection and balance.
The above -mentioned person in charge said that the relevant law enforcement and judicial departments must be resolutely filed and resolutely handled the case of the case for the case of the case of the laws and regulations.Instead, it should be grasped strictly.
Earlier, Zang Tiewei, a spokesman for the Legal Working Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, said at a press conference on December 22 that for a long time, there has been a weak punishment for bribery and punishment in practice.From the perspective of relevant data, the number of bribery cases for bribery during the same period was large.
Zang Tiewei emphasized that the problem of systematic governance of bribery must further play the important role of the criminal law in one way to promote the dare not rot, not rot, and do not want to rot.
