An academic seminar on combating emerging and concealed duty‑related crimes, along with the 2026 Annual Academic Seminar on Anti-Corruption Rule‑of‑Law Studies, was held in Shanghai on Sept 5.
The seminar, themed “Theories and Practices in Combating Emerging and Concealed Duty-Related Crimes,” focused on six topics: the nature and characteristics of emerging and concealed bribery; criminal regulation of agreed proxy holding in bribery and intermediary bribery; evidentiary rules and standards of proof for emerging and concealed duty-related crimes; criminal regulation of market transaction-related bribery; criminal regulation of bribery involving anticipated returns and interest-based lending; and other forms of emerging and concealed bribery.
Participants held in-depth discussions on these topics and shared innovative theoretical research findings and practical experience in judicial case handling.
The seminar, guided by the Procuratorial Department for Crimes of Dereliction of Duty of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP) and its Procuratorial Theory Research Institute, was co-hosted by the SPP’s Judicial Case Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and the Shanghai Municipal People’s Procuratorate.
Experts and scholars from leading national universities specializing in political science and law and research institutions, officials from local discipline inspection and supervision commissions, procuratorates and courts, legal practitioners, and award winners of the seminar’s themed essay contest attended the event.
Relevant officials from the SPP’s Procuratorial Department for Crimes of Dereliction of Duty, the Procuratorial Theory Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and the Shanghai Municipal People’s Procuratorate attended the event.
