Graft cases involving 101 high-ranking officials concluded

China's court system has concluded graft cases involving 101 former officials at the provincial and ministerial level or above over the past five years, a work report of the Supreme People's Court said Friday.

Chief Justice Zhou Qiang delivers a work report of the Supreme People's Court at the second plenary meeting of the first session of the 13th National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 9, 2018. [Photo: cyol.com]

Courts at various levels concluded 195,000 graft cases from 2013 to 2017, implicating 263,000 people, said the report to be delivered by Chief Justice Zhou Qiang at a plenary meeting of the annual session of the National People's Congress.

A total of 13,000 people were convicted of offering bribes, the report said.

The case of Yang Xiuzhu, who was number one on the list of China's top 100 fugitives in an Interpol Red Notice, was heard during the period, it said.

Yang, former vice mayor of Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, fled China in 2003 and returned and surrendered herself in November 2016. She was sentenced to eight years in jail for embezzlement and taking bribes in October 2017.