Charges of bribery hit 5 top officials

Five senior officials have been prosecuted for alleged bribery, China's top prosecuting body said on Friday.

The five include Qiu He, former deputy head of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, who is charged with taking bribes by making use of his position to help others gain benefits, the Supreme People's Procuratorate said.

Yang Weize, former Party chief of Nanjing, Jiangsu province; Xiao Tian, former deputy director of China's General Administration of Sport; and Si Xinliang, former deputy head of the provincial political advisory body in Zhejiang, have all been charged with bribery.