Disturbances in the early years of procuratorial rule were frequent and caused largely by maladministration.
In 44 the entire kingdom passed under Roman rule and was reconstituted as the procuratorial province of Judaea.
He admitted taking money from the department bank account twice – once 20,000 renminbi, or $3,140, for his wife to see a doctor in Beijing, and once 100,000 renminbi, for his daughter's wedding, the Procuratorial Daily reported.
Unimpressed, the court sentenced Mr. Liu to 13 years in jail (his wife and driver received shorter sentences) for taking bribes of 1.64 million renminbi – nearly $260,000 — related to construction contracts, according to the Procuratorial Daily.
The report was printed in the Procuratorial Daily, published by the Chinese equivalent of the attorney general's office, and was also posted on a Xinjiang government Web site, lending legitimacy to the statistics.
While the government stoutly opposes corruption in public, Mr. Liu's self-defense is increasingly common, the Procuratorial Daily's Justice Net noted here in Chinese, citing several other recent cases where officials sentenced for corruption said what they made was nothing compared to others.
On Wednesday, Li Shuming, a commentator in the state-run Procuratorial Daily, sought to shoot down the common refrain that fireworks were an integral part of Chinese culture, pointing out that pigtailed men and women with bound feet were once de rigeur.
Sinopec said it would delay maintenance work at five refineries and halt exports of refined oil products ("at last", enthused the Procuratorial Daily, a Beijing newspaper, in a commentary accusing "certain people" of using fuel shortages to put pressure on the government).Freeing state controls over fuel prices would be an even bigger help, say some Chinese academics.
That didn't stop Liu Zhiwen, the former head of the Civil Affairs Bureau in Dezhou city in Shandong Province, from defending himself at his trial – on corruption charges, of course – in April, in a story reported this week by the Procuratorial Daily, the official newspaper of the country's prosecution services.
2009 began with an alarming January 4 report published in the Procuratorial Daily that arrests on state security charges in East Turkestan numbered 1,300 in 2008.
The gang had used the Beijing Fengrui Law Firm to organise crimes such as breaking into public security, procuratorial and judicial organs and courts, and gathering crowds and making disturbances in public venues, severely disrupting social order and judicial process, it alleged.
