Former mayor pleads for leniency
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JI Jianye, a former mayor of Nanjing, capital of east China’s Jiangsu Province, admitted taking bribes totaling more than 11.3 million yuan (US$1.8 million) when he appeared in court yesterday.
In tears as he expressed his regrets and apologized to his family, Ji pleaded with the Yantai Intermediate People’s Court in neighboring Shandong Province for a light sentence.
In China, disgraced officials are often tried outside the regions where they have worked to avoid intervention in the cases.
Prosecutors said Ji had taken advantage of his posts to provide favors to seven companies and individuals, including Xu Dongming from the Jinlian trade company in Suzhou, from 1992 to 2013 while working as an official in Suzhou, Kunshan, Yangzhou and Nanjing cities.
They said Ji helped them in bids for projects and development as well as job transfers, Xinhua news agency reported.
He helped the Jinlian company secure bids for projects when he was Yangzhou’s Party chief.
Ji also helped the wife and friends of Zhang Xueren, former Party chief of the Wuzhong Industrial Development Zone in Suzhou, to secure jobs at two construction companies and offering help to the Wuzhong District government in purchasing office space in Nanjing between 1995 and 2011.
In 2010, Ji bought 153 square meters of land in Wuzhong at a reduced price with Zhang’s help, prosecutors said.
Ji received yuan, dollars and shopping cards worth more than 90,000 yuan from two companies after helping one secure a road paving project and the other with land use rights and relocation, the court heard.
He was also given a car and a painting priced at 30,000 yuan and bought a villa at 545,709 yuan off the market price after he helped two developers with approval and relocation.
Ji, 58, spent his entire political career in Jiangsu, heading the cities of Kunshan and Yangzhou before taking the Nanjing post in 2010.
He was expelled from the Communist Party in January last year, and authorities said at the time he had “received a huge amount of money and gifts either by himself or through his family members.”
Nicknamed “Bulldozer Ji” by Nanjing residents, he was known for promoting construction projects in the city.
The court will announce a verdict at a later date.
The trial came just days after authorities launched an investigation into Nanjing Party chief Yang Weize for “severe violations of discipline and law.”
It is not known whether the two cases are related.
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