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Henan work safety boss gets life for bribery

By Jane Chen | June 24, 2010, Thursday | Online Edition

FORMER work safety chief of north China's Henan Province has been sentenced to life imprisonment for taking nearly 20 million yuan (US$2.94 million) in bribes.

Shangqiu City Intermediate People's Court handed down the verdict to Li Jiucheng, former director with Henan Coal Mine Safety Administration and Henan Work Safety Administration, the Legal Weekend newspaper has reported.

Li, 54, was deprived of political rights for life and all his personal wealth was confiscated.

He is convicted of taking 19.13 million yuan in cash and share dividends as well as 30,000 British pounds (US$44,889) on 51 occasions. Of the money, he had demanded 17.1 million yuan and 30,000 British pounds on 22 occasions.

Li didn't appeal against the verdict.

Li was taken by the disciplinary supervision authority for investigation in August 2008, two months after a probe into his friend Yuan Zhanguo, former president of Dengcao coal mining group.

The group had fast expanded under Li's support, according to earlier Legal Weekend reports.

For example, in 1996, Li helped Yuan obtain a license to mine the Jinling mine. In August 2004 when Li visited the mine, he asked 200,000 yuan worth of shares in the mine from Yuan.

From the shares, he reaped 140,000 yuan in dividends from 2006 to 2007.

In 1999, Li helped Yuan to purchase the Jinyang mine and received another 200,000 shares in the mine in return. The shares brought Li 270,000 yuan in dividends from 2001 to 2007.

Besides, Yuan offered 490,000 yuan to Li from 2001 to 2007 on seven occasions.

He was also asked to buy a flat for Li's mistress and pay US$10,000 to fund Li's son's study in Britain.

In total, Li took US$10,000 and 1.17 million yuan in cash as well as 410,000 yuan in dividends from Yuan.



Despite that, the majority of Li's bribery was taken from Xie Kangxing, president of Xindeng coal mining group.



Li took 20 percent of shares in Xie's group and profited 9.07 million yuan in dividends from 2001 to 2004.



He withdrew the shares in 2005 when the country banned government officials to invest in mines.



Xie launched an investment company and offered 12 million yuan valued of shares to Li.

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