Shanghai property officials in bribery probe

Investigation into bribery cases in Shanghai’s real estate sector has ensnared one official from the Shanghai Property and Land Resource Administration Bureau and is examining several others, Shanghai Securities News reported (in Chinese). Zhu Wenjin, an official in charge of land use, was officially charged for taking US$548,000 in bribes in September 2007. Another seven officials, including a former deputy director of the bureau, are under inspection. Anti-corruption enforcement in the city’s real estate sector has been tightening, the newspaper cited an industry expert as saying.