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Death sentence upheld for gambling official
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January 16, 2009, Friday
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A COURT in central China's Hunan Province has upheld its 2005 death sentence against a former official who was convicted of graft and misappropriating public funds, a court spokesman said yesterday.
The final verdict against Li Shubiao, former head of the Administrative Center for Housing Accumulation Funds of Chenzhou City, Hunan Province, was announced on Tuesday by the Chenzhou Intermediate People's Court following a retrial. No date was announced for the execution, which requires Supreme Court approval.
A spokesman for the Chenzhou court said his court had been assigned by the Hunan Provincial Higher People's Court to carry out the retrial.
Li was first tried in May 2005. Prosecutors said Li embezzled more than 118 million yuan (US$17.26 million) in funds allocated to buy homes for 200,000 city workers between 1999 and 2004.
The court heard that Li used the embezzled funds to gamble in Macau and other places or spend extravagantly. About 77.475 million yuan was outstanding when Li's case was first investigated in January 2004.
In the first trial, Li, now 45, was convicted on three counts: graft, misappropriation of public funds and gambling.
In August 2005, the court sentenced Li to death, stripped him of his political rights and seized all his personal property.
The final verdict against Li Shubiao, former head of the Administrative Center for Housing Accumulation Funds of Chenzhou City, Hunan Province, was announced on Tuesday by the Chenzhou Intermediate People's Court following a retrial. No date was announced for the execution, which requires Supreme Court approval.
A spokesman for the Chenzhou court said his court had been assigned by the Hunan Provincial Higher People's Court to carry out the retrial.
Li was first tried in May 2005. Prosecutors said Li embezzled more than 118 million yuan (US$17.26 million) in funds allocated to buy homes for 200,000 city workers between 1999 and 2004.
The court heard that Li used the embezzled funds to gamble in Macau and other places or spend extravagantly. About 77.475 million yuan was outstanding when Li's case was first investigated in January 2004.
In the first trial, Li, now 45, was convicted on three counts: graft, misappropriation of public funds and gambling.
In August 2005, the court sentenced Li to death, stripped him of his political rights and seized all his personal property.
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