Jailed bribe taker has life sentence cut after appeal
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SHANGHAI Higher People’s Court has overturned a life sentence being served by a retired airline executive convicted of taking bribes amounting to nearly 4.9 million yuan (US$738,753).
Chen Haiju, former deputy general manager of Shanghai-based China Eastern Airlines, had his life term reduced to 13 years behind bars in June. The decision was based on a change made in April to the amount of time that must be served in graft cases.
Chen was sent to prison in 2015, after being convicted of abusing his power to seek benefits for others in exchange for bribes totaling 4.86 million yuan between 2001 and 2013.
From 1999 to 2003, he was director of the China Civil Aviation Administration’s Air Traffic Management Bureau. Before he retired in 2011, he was deputy general manager of Eastern Airlines and the chairman of its aviation food company.
He pleaded guilty, but asked for a lighter sentence because he is ill and as recognition of his contributions to the aviation sector.
His appeal began in January, and the high court decided to reduce his sentence in June, in light of the amended laws and his poor health.
Previously, bribes totaling 100,000 yuan or more were considered to be of “extraordinarily huge value,” requiring a jail term of at least ten years, life or the death penalty. The current threshold is set at 3 million yuan.
Chen gambled millions of yuan in casinos in Las Vegas, Melbourne, Amsterdam and Macau. He claims that half the money that was identified as illegally obtained funds was earned through gambling.
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