On February 26, the Supreme People's Procuratorate announced: In 2023, procuratorial organs across the country will approve the arrest of more than 700,000 criminal suspects, prosecute more than 1.6 million people, and prosecute 150,000 people, more than 4,700 people were prosecuted for crimes of endangering production safety, more than 50,000 people were prosecuted for telecommunications network fraud, nearly 30,000 people were prosecuted for financial fraud and undermining the order of financial management, and more than 120,000 people were prosecuted for crimes that undermined the order of the market economy such as the production and sale of fake and shoddy products, contract fraud, and illegal business operations.
Chen Guoqing, deputy procurator general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, said that in 2023, procuratorial organs across the country will carry out supervision of case filing, supervision of case withdrawal, and recommendation of administrative organs to transfer a total of 14 suspected criminal cases50,000 cases, an increase of 59% year-on-year, of which the number of supervised cases increased by 1 year-on-year6 times, 98 percent of the sentences were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment or higher after the supervision of case filing, the number of notices of correcting violations and procuratorial suggestions increased by 22 percent year-on-year, and the acceptance rate of written corrections to illegal investigation activities reached 99 percent. In addition, procuratorial organs across the country have rationally selected supervision methods based on the different circumstances of violations and flaws in criminal trials, and while attaching importance to prosecutorial counter-appeals, they have also paid attention to the use of methods such as correcting violations, procuratorial suggestions, and oral supervision to enhance the effectiveness of supervision. In response to illegal criminal trial activities, the procuratorial organs have submitted a total of 20,000 corrective opinions, and the court has adopted them with a rate of more than 99 percent.
It has also been learned that last year, procuratorial organs across the country did not approve the arrest of more than 200,000 people and did not prosecute more than 50,000 people in accordance with the law for those who did not constitute a crime or the evidence was insufficient. For those who should be arrested or prosecuted but have not submitted for approval of arrest or have not been transferred for prosecution, nearly 20,000 people have been arrested and nearly 100,000 people have been prosecuted.
In addition, Chen Guoqing introduced that last year, the procuratorial organs promoted the formulation and issuance of the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Application of the Parole System in Accordance with Law" and the "Opinions on Further Regulating the Work of Temporarily Serving Sentences Outside of Prison" issued by the "Two Supreme People's Courts and Two Ministries, Three Ministries and One Commission". For the first time, the 49th batch of guiding cases of the Supreme People's Procuratorate was formulated and issued with the theme of parole supervision. The number of cases of "temporary leave reduction" supervision accepted by procuratorial organs nationwide increased by more than 25% year-on-year, and more than 20,000 written corrective opinions were submitted to improper requests or rulings. At the same time, the procuratorial organs have strengthened supervision of community corrections, and have supervised the return of more than 3,600 people to prison for enforcement of sentences outside of prison. Jointly launched the "Thunder 2023" special activity with the Supreme People's Court, and promoted the enforcement of more than 3,400 cases through procuratorial supervision, involving hundreds of millions of yuan.
*: Beijing**client reporter Gao Jian.
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