Jail time cut for corrupt school head
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ZHOU Wenbin, former president of a key university in east China’s Jiangxi Province, was yesterday sentenced to 12 years in prison for bribery, a reduction on an earlier sentence imposed by a lower court.
According to verdict issued by the Jiangxi Higher People’s court yesterday, personal assets worth 1 million yuan (US$145,000) should be confiscated from him, and the bribes he took should be recovered.
Zhou was found guilty of accepting cash in various currencies worth 19.7 million yuan as well as shopping cards worth 24,000 yuan, and a Cartier watch worth 38,600 yuan.
On December 2015, Zhou was sentenced by the Intermediate People’s Court of Nanchang City, capital of Jiangxi, to life in prison for bribery and embezzlement of public funds.
The Higher court yesterday said the first conviction for embezzlement was inappropriate, and evidence was lacking for the conviction for taking 1.6 million yuan in bribes.
The court said Zhou showed a good attitude by confessing and repenting during the second trial, and most of the bribe money has been recovered. Zhou, born in 1960, became president of Nanchang University, the top university in the province, in late 2002. He was arrested in 2013.
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