While the top official gets a shorter jail sentence only! Wow!!
Shanghai official gets death sentence for bribery
35 minutes ago
A former land use official in Shanghai has been sentenced to death as an investigation into bribe-taking in return for real estate approvals winds down in China's biggest city, reports said Friday.
A Shanghai court ordered the death sentence Thursday after finding Yin Guoguan, former deputy director of the city's Housing, Land and Resources Administration Bureau, guilty of taking bribes among a "host of crimes," said the official Xinhua News Agency and other reports.
However, the court ordered the actual execution be "suspended" for two years, the reports said. Such sentences in China are usually commuted to life imprisonment.
Yin and his former subordinates were among dozens of officials and business people implicated in a scandal involving unauthorized use of city pension funds as loans for real estate and other deals.
Yin and his wife, Chen Wei, who was sentenced to seven years, were convicted of taking bribes worth about $5 million in 2000-2004, Xinhua said. It said Yin also failed to account for the sources of assets for more than $600 million.
China's business capital has seen a number of top officials and business leaders punished recently in corruption scandals, including the sentencing in April of the city's former Communist Party chief, Chen Liangyu, to 18 years in prison for his role in a pension fund scandal.
Shanghai official gets death sentence for bribery
35 minutes ago
A former land use official in Shanghai has been sentenced to death as an investigation into bribe-taking in return for real estate approvals winds down in China's biggest city, reports said Friday.
A Shanghai court ordered the death sentence Thursday after finding Yin Guoguan, former deputy director of the city's Housing, Land and Resources Administration Bureau, guilty of taking bribes among a "host of crimes," said the official Xinhua News Agency and other reports.
However, the court ordered the actual execution be "suspended" for two years, the reports said. Such sentences in China are usually commuted to life imprisonment.
Yin and his former subordinates were among dozens of officials and business people implicated in a scandal involving unauthorized use of city pension funds as loans for real estate and other deals.
Yin and his wife, Chen Wei, who was sentenced to seven years, were convicted of taking bribes worth about $5 million in 2000-2004, Xinhua said. It said Yin also failed to account for the sources of assets for more than $600 million.
China's business capital has seen a number of top officials and business leaders punished recently in corruption scandals, including the sentencing in April of the city's former Communist Party chief, Chen Liangyu, to 18 years in prison for his role in a pension fund scandal.
