New Criminal Law targets bribery, cybersecurity

The latest revisions increase corruption penalties, allow for subjective decisions and widen the information security net as China intensifies crackdown

10 minute read November 04, 2015 at 05:29 AM

Katherine Jo and clp articles

New Criminal Law targets bribery, cybersecurity

The ninth amendment of the PRC Criminal Law, which came into effect on November 1 2015, adopts a harsher tone on punishment and cracks down on two areas that have dominated the headlines: bribery and data protection.

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