大学考试|Report says court director investigated

Yang Xiancai, former executive director of the Guangdong High People's Court, has been under the investigation^{1 of the 单次点击成本 Central Commission for Discipline Inspection2 , the country's TOP graft3 buster, a local newspaper reported.}

I haven't seen him in the past 10 days, not even at important court meetings, an official with the court, who asked for anonymity^{4, told China Daily yesterday afternoon.}

We had no idea where he was until we heard the news from the local media this morning, he said.

Unfortunately, all efforts to contact the court publicity^{5 official yesterday failed.}

Yang, 58, was taken away by the CCDI on June 28 while away on business, according to Nanfang Metropolis^{6 Daily, which also reported Yang's story yesterday.}

The alleged^{7 reasons are believed to be either corrupt8 auctions9 and trade dealings in connection with Zhongcheng Plaza10, one of the nation's largest property projects that remained unfinished for over a decade, or his intention to seek bribes11 from an agent involved in an economic case that Yang executed, the news report said.}

A Guangzhou lawyer surnamed Lu, who claimed to have been acquainted with Yang, told China Daily that Yang was iron-fisted when he was director of the court executive of the bureau from 2001 to 2007.

It was while he was executive director that the Guangdong High People's Court hammered out a series of measures to deal with cases hard to execute, Lu said.

Yang's measures included assigning non-local courts cases that were hardly executable, limiting debtors^{12' consumption level and encouraging and rewarding tip-offs on obligors' properties, Lu said.}

While enhancing efficiency, the measures also gave Yang greater power and made it easier for him to abuse it, the lawyer said.

As the nation's economic powerhouse, Guangdong TOPs other provinces, cities and regions in terms of execution of lawsuits^{14 and property confiscations.}

Courts in the booming Pearl River Delta^{15 cities alone executed 170,165 lawsuit13 cases last year, accounting16 for 71 percent of the total in Guangdong province. And property confiscations executed across the province were worth 45 billion yuan in 2007, according to official statistics.}