Killer police chief gets death penalty
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A court yesterday sentenced to death the former police chief of northern China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region after convicting him for murder, bribery, and possession of firearms and explosives.
The court in Taiyuan city in the northern province of Shanxi ruled that Zhao Liping, 65, was guilty of killing a person surnamed Li in March last year, according to Xinhua news agency.
He also took more than 23 million yuan (US$3.38 million) in bribes and illegally stored 91 detonators in his office while working as the police chief of Inner Mongolia from 2008 to 2010, Xinhua said.
Zhao first became police chief of the autonomous region in 2005 and had worked as a police officer for almost three decades.
“The nature of Zhao Liping’s murder was sinful, the plot especially vile, the means especially cruel, the danger to society grave,” the court said in its ruling.
Zhao also refused to plead guilty and should be severely punished, the court added.
He was detained on suspicion of the murder of a woman last year and was formally charged in February.
Media reports previously said the victim was his mistress, whom he stabbed and shot and then burnt the body after she threatened to expose his corrupt behavior.
President Xi Jinping has emphasized the need for officials to be paragons of virtue and to uphold public morality in his drive to restore discipline to the ruling Communist Party.
Since he became Party chief in 2012, Xi has waged war on corruption within the Party, warning that a failure to root out graft could jeopardize the party’s survival.
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