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| | Three Gorges News Archive: June 09, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | About 140 corruption cases relating to the project, which involve billions of yuan and implicate hundreds of officials, have been uncovered since the project was launched six years ago. |
 | | "Some 473 million yuan in resettlement funds was embezzled, misappropriated or illegally used in 1998 alone," Xinhua said, adding that "those punished included Huang Faxiang, a land management official in Fengdu county, near Chongqing in Sichuan, who was executed early this year for the embezzlement of 15.56 million yuan". |
 | | Officials claimed about 430 million yuan of the funds misappropriated in 1998 had been recovered, adding that the money still missing would hopefully be replaced by authorities using public funds by the end of this month. |
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