Corruption 'sending whole family into abyss'

Editor's note: Corruption Fight Is Always Underway, a documentary produced by the CPC Central Committee for Discipline Inspection and CCTV, continued to show the stories of former senior officials who have fallen from grace during the country's anti-graft drive. The series, which was first broadcast on Monday at 8 pm on CCTV-1, features the cases of 10 former provincial or ministerial-level officials and a former State leader. The interviews were done while the former officials were detained, but before any convictions.

"My corruption destroyed not only myself, but also my wife and son, sending the whole family into an abyss of economic crimes....Without a Party chief like me, they would not have acted like that."

Su Rong, 64, former vice-chairmen of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, China's top political advisory body

Su was prosecuted on corruption charges in July. Once serving as the top official in Jiangxi, Qinghai and Gansu provinces, Su was charged with taking bribes, abusing power and possessing a huge amount of unexplained assets.

He said in the documentary that he connived with his family members and relatives, cashing in on his political influence, and he turned the provinces he governed, especially Jiangxi, into a place to seek his own interests.

"During holidays, officials at lower levels came to send usually $20,000-30,000 (as bribes). They don't say directly what they wanted ... But I know every official's purpose."

Nie Chunyu, 61, former secretary-general of the Communist Party of China Shanxi Provincial Committee

Nie was sentenced to 15 years in prison for accepting bribes amounting to nearly 45 million yuan ($6.68 million) by a court in Jiangsu province on Wednesday.

In the documentary, he said that interactions among corrupt officials from the grassroots to higher levels led to landslide-like corruption in Shanxi province.