China’s top prosecutor ‘confident’ of finding out what happened to missing papers
- Zhang Jun says investigation into disappearance of key legal documents in contract dispute ‘will be handled according to the law’
China’s top prosecutor said on Thursday that he was “confident” the supreme court would find out what happened to key documents from a business contract dispute that went missing from a judge’s office two years ago.
But at a news conference in Beijing, Zhang Jun, the procurator general of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, would not say whether the prosecutor’s office would get involved in the investigation.
“We are confident that the investigation will lead to a clear conclusion of the matter,” Zhang said. “This closely watched issue will be handled according to the law, in the proper way.”
He also encouraged anyone with information about the case to come forward.
The papers vanished from the office of judge Wang Linqing in late 2016. They detailed a contract dispute between private firm Kechley Energy Investment, headed by businessman Zhao Faqi, and the state-owned Xian Institute of Geological and Mineral Exploration.