Jail term for taking bribes at ministry
By Wang Xiang |
May 28, 2010, Friday
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A FORMER vice director in the Ministry of Commerce was sentenced yesterday to 12 years in jail for bribery, the second senior official in the ministry convicted of corruption in a week.
Deng Zhan, 63, vice head of the ministry's Foreign Investment Department, was found guilty of taking 2.2 million yuan (US$323,150) from companies in exchange for his help in approving foreign investments and other legal affairs.
Beijing No.2 Intermediate People's Court said Deng was given a lenient sentence because he gave back all the bribes and readily confessed his guilt, Xinhua reported yesterday.
Deng was found guilty of taking about 1.8 million yuan from a lawyer named Zhang Yudong during his tenure in the former Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Co-operation between 1998 and 2005.
In return, Deng helped Zhang to get international trade deals and helped him win approval for a foreign trade company.
Seven days ago, Guo Jingyi, inspector of the ministry's Treaty and Law Department, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for taking 8.45 million yuan. Guo, 44, was the youngest official to hold his ranking since the ministry was set up in 2003.
He said he would appeal for leniency.
Guo and Deng were close colleagues.
They cooperated with Liu Wei, former vice-director of the Foreign Investment Bureau of State Administration for Industry and Commerce, to give the green light to an energy company ENN when it was trying to get listed, Beijing Evening News reported.
Deng Zhan, 63, vice head of the ministry's Foreign Investment Department, was found guilty of taking 2.2 million yuan (US$323,150) from companies in exchange for his help in approving foreign investments and other legal affairs.
Beijing No.2 Intermediate People's Court said Deng was given a lenient sentence because he gave back all the bribes and readily confessed his guilt, Xinhua reported yesterday.
Deng was found guilty of taking about 1.8 million yuan from a lawyer named Zhang Yudong during his tenure in the former Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Co-operation between 1998 and 2005.
In return, Deng helped Zhang to get international trade deals and helped him win approval for a foreign trade company.
Seven days ago, Guo Jingyi, inspector of the ministry's Treaty and Law Department, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for taking 8.45 million yuan. Guo, 44, was the youngest official to hold his ranking since the ministry was set up in 2003.
He said he would appeal for leniency.
Guo and Deng were close colleagues.
They cooperated with Liu Wei, former vice-director of the Foreign Investment Bureau of State Administration for Industry and Commerce, to give the green light to an energy company ENN when it was trying to get listed, Beijing Evening News reported.
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