Accident cover-up officials to warrant aggravated penalties(2)

Management and supervision personnel in state organs will face fierce punishment, it says, if fake and poisonous medicines and food that falls short of standards slip into the market because of their carelessness and abuses of power.

The SPC statement says the legal interpretation will aggregate severity of judicial punishments in such cases and spurs on officials to administer prudently.

From Jan. to Nov. 2012, Chinese courts handled 4,928 cases of power abuse and dereliction of duty, convicting 4,426 officials, according to the SPC.