Beijing’s anti-graft watch over HK Macau Affairs office

An anti-graft inspector for China’s Communist Party, Liu Qiufang, revealed in Beijing that she is in charge of overseeing that mainland officials in the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office are not involved in corrupt practices, a RTHK report indicates.
Li, a member of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the party’s department in charge of anti-graft campaigns for the country, said she was sent to the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office in Beijing earlier this year to oversee all their staff.
Speaking on the sidelines of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in Beijing, she did not comment on any specific case.
Since 2014, when Beijing launched its anti-corruption campaign, the local casino industry has been hit by a decline mostly due to the lack of VIP gamblers who have been responsible for about two-thirds of the gross gaming revenue that has seen sharp declines over 2015.
More recently with the investigation of high ranking officials, which includes the former Public Prosecutor General, Ho Chio Meng, who is currently in preventive custody, the MSAR has been reported as having started its own anti-graft drive following in the footsteps of the mainland’s almost two-
year program.