Ex-senior official gets life for taking 8m yuan in bribes
By Li Qian |
July 3, 2012, Tuesday
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A former senior official in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has been sentenced to life imprisonment for taking more than 8.17 million yuan (US$1.29 million) in bribes.
Liu Zhuozhi took the money between 2002 and 2010 when he was government head and Party chief of Xilingol League in western Inner Mongolia as well as vice chairman of the autonomous region's government, the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court said yesterday.
In exchange, Liu granted favors to 21 people, including approving business and mining credentials and promoting officials, the court said.
Before his arrest, environmental activists had claimed he helped a paper mill occupy land and pollute the grassland, which sparked outrage among local herdsmen in 2000 and 2002.
He was also alleged to have acquired land plots at low prices, selling them later at much higher prices.
The court deprived Liu of his political rights for life and confiscated all his personal assets. The court said Liu was given a lighter penalty because he had returned all of the money and confessed his crimes.
Liu was removed from his post and investigated for severe disciplinary violations in December 2010. He was expelled from the Communist Party of China last July and went on trial this June.
Song Wei, Liu's wife and former vice secretary of political and legislative affairs for the Party's Xilingol League committee, was also found to be involved in the corruption and is under criminal investigation.
Liu was among several others in the region found to be corrupt officials.
Earlier, Bai Zhiming, former deputy secretary-general of the region's Party committee, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for accepting 10.4 million yuan in bribes from 2001 to 2008. He was also convicted of illegally possessing a gun and hundreds of bullets. Wei Xiaoping, the former vice Party secretary of Xilingol League, was sentenced to life for accepting 9 million yuan in bribes. Wei failed to explain the source of over 6 million yuan.
A total of 4,843 Chinese officials above the county head-level were punished for discipline violations in 2011, the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, which is the Party's top disciplinary watchdog, said earlier.
Liu Zhuozhi took the money between 2002 and 2010 when he was government head and Party chief of Xilingol League in western Inner Mongolia as well as vice chairman of the autonomous region's government, the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court said yesterday.
In exchange, Liu granted favors to 21 people, including approving business and mining credentials and promoting officials, the court said.
Before his arrest, environmental activists had claimed he helped a paper mill occupy land and pollute the grassland, which sparked outrage among local herdsmen in 2000 and 2002.
He was also alleged to have acquired land plots at low prices, selling them later at much higher prices.
The court deprived Liu of his political rights for life and confiscated all his personal assets. The court said Liu was given a lighter penalty because he had returned all of the money and confessed his crimes.
Liu was removed from his post and investigated for severe disciplinary violations in December 2010. He was expelled from the Communist Party of China last July and went on trial this June.
Song Wei, Liu's wife and former vice secretary of political and legislative affairs for the Party's Xilingol League committee, was also found to be involved in the corruption and is under criminal investigation.
Liu was among several others in the region found to be corrupt officials.
Earlier, Bai Zhiming, former deputy secretary-general of the region's Party committee, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for accepting 10.4 million yuan in bribes from 2001 to 2008. He was also convicted of illegally possessing a gun and hundreds of bullets. Wei Xiaoping, the former vice Party secretary of Xilingol League, was sentenced to life for accepting 9 million yuan in bribes. Wei failed to explain the source of over 6 million yuan.
A total of 4,843 Chinese officials above the county head-level were punished for discipline violations in 2011, the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, which is the Party's top disciplinary watchdog, said earlier.
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