The Supreme People's Procuratorate of China announced on the 5th that the Hainan procuratorate initiated a public prosecution against Wu Kaicheng, a former member of the Party Leadership Group and deputy director of the Hainan Provincial Department of Natural Resources and Planning, who was suspected of taking bribes. According to public data, Wu Kaicheng was born in Haikou, Hainan in April 1966, joined the CPC in April 1988, and started work in August 1989. In October 2022, the official reported that he was expelled from the Party and public office for serious violation of discipline and law. He was pointed out to implement the major decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee on ecological and environmental protection, discount and make changes, and was pointed out to "rely on mines to eat minerals, sit on the ground to make money", "act as a 'shadow shareholder' to collect money" and so on. A recent article published on the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervision Commission pointed out that the corrupt elements' means of corruption have been renovated, such as making profits through "shadow companies" and "shadow shareholders", investing in or actually controlling companies and collecting and holding shares on behalf of others. The article said that such cases should be strictly investigated from such aspects as checking the actual controller through the enterprise's industrial and commercial archives, finding the benefit transmission chain through checking the assets, and looking at the public power behind the company's business operations. In addition, according to the Supreme Procurator's notice, the Anhui procuratorate initiated a public prosecution against Wu Xuemin, the former secretary of the Party Committee and chairman of Anhui Credit Guarantee Group Co., Ltd., who was suspected of taking bribes and abuse of power by personnel of state-owned companies; Yao Kai, the former deputy mayor of Hefei City, Anhui Province, and the former director of the Municipal Bureau of Urban and Rural Development, was prosecuted for suspected bribery. According to public data, Wu Xuemin was born in February 1968 in Qinglong, Hebei Province. He started working in July 1990 and joined the CPC in June 2003. In the "double opening" notice, he was referred to as "the three outlooks are extremely distorted, the greed is extremely inflated, the main responsibility of governing the party and the financial security are ignored", and "eating finance by finance", "being enthusiastic about drinking and crisscrossing" and so on. Yao Kai was born in Lujiang, Anhui Province in December 1969. He started working in August 1990 and joined the CPC in April 1998. In the "double opening" notice, he was accused of "illegally owning the shares of unlisted companies", and "openly using the power to take charge of urban construction projects, and colluding with illegal businessmen to eat inside and outside". The Anhui Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision recently publicly announced the typical spiritual problems of violating the eight provisions of the Central Committee, involving the above two persons. From 2013 to 2021, Yao Kai received gifts such as gifts, shopping cards, high-grade drinks, cordyceps and other gifts from a number of management and service objects, amounting to 844000 yuan (RMB, the same below). He also accepted private business owners' arrangements to travel with his family for many times. From 2014 to 2022, Wu Xuemin received gifts, cash gifts, shopping cards, delivery vouchers, etc. from multiple management service objects, amounting to 1.2217 million yuan. (Xinhua News Agency)