At the press conference sponsored by the State Council Information Office on March 27, 2006, Zhu Xiaoqing, deputy procurator-general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, briefed the press on Regulations Regarding Transfer of Cases of Suspected Crimes of the Administrative Law Enforcement Institutions. He also answered questions from the press.

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Speech by Zhu Xiaoqing, Deputy Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate

To improve the working mechanism of coordinating administrative enforcement of law and criminal judicature and to crack down more severely on crimes of disrupting the order of the socialist market economy, crimes of obstructing the administration of public order and other crimes, the following opinions are proposed regarding timely transfer of cases of suspected crimes in the course of administrative enforcement of law in accordance with regulations of The Criminal Procedure Law of the People’s Republic of China, Regulations Regarding Transfer of Cases of Suspected Crimes of the Administrative Law Enforcement Institutions of the State Council and other application regulations:

1. In the process of investigating and handling cases, the administrative law enforcement institutions should prepare Transfer Report of Cases of Suspected Crimes of all cases meeting penal prosecution standards as well as case of suspected crimes, transfer such cases to public security organs of the same level on a timely basis, and send copies of all involved documents to the people’s procuratorates of the same level. Where such cases of suspected crimes are not transferred on a timely basis and administrative penalties are exercised, the administrative law enforcement institutions should, with ten days of the exercises of such penalties, send copies of Transfer Report of Cases of Suspected Crimes to both the public security organs and people’s procuratorates of the same level, and issue notifications in writing to the obligees.  full story>>

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