China arrests 2,000 over graft

Beijing: Over 2,000 court officials were investigated for corruption and punished for abuse of power in China in 2014 as part of the anti-graft campaign by President Xi Jinping. About 2,108 law enforcers with China’s courtswere investigated and punished in 2014, Xinhua said.

The Supreme People’s Court announced on Saturday that 180 cases had been handed over for judicial investigations. Discipline inspectors also held 73 senior local court officialsaccountable for failures in supervision that led to these violations, the SPC said in a statement.