Land boss sentenced to death
By Zhang Xuanchen |
December 22, 2010, Wednesday
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A FORMER land official, dubbed by authorities as "the most corrupt female official" in northeast China's Liaoning Province, has been sentenced to death for taking at least 30 million yuan (US$4.5 million) in bribes and holding properties worth 30 million yuan from unidentified sources.
The offender Luo Yaping, former director of the Land Resources Bureau of Shuncheng District in Fushun City, said she will appeal after she was charged with taking bribes, embezzlement and possessing huge properties of unidentified sources by the Intermediate People's Court of Shenyang City on Monday.
Luo, 50, was dubbed as "the most corrupt female official who took the largest amount of illegitimate money, by the worst means, while in the lowest-level government position in China's anti-corruption history" by officials with the Communist Party's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection after she was detained in 2008, Xinmin Evening News reported yesterday.
Luo was also said to enjoy an ostentatious lifestyle highlighted by her sexual relationships with a handful of "pretty boys", ranging from her colleagues, other government agency workers to businessmen who needed her approval for land use, according to an earlier report by People's Daily.
Luo would force targeted males to become her lovers, either by luring them with money and instant promotion, or simply threatening them with her power. In one case, Luo offered a lump sum of 1 million yuan to her subordinate Ge Feng, who was almost 12 years her junior, to dispense with his wife, People's Daily said.
The court said Luo also took huge amounts of kickbacks from real estate developers for projects and embezzled massive government compensations for residents who were forced off their houses due to demolition during her tenure from 1987 to 2007.
To pave way for her corrupt deals, Luo weaved a huge network that entangled her superiors and subordinates, to provide help and interchange information. Her former superior Jiang Runli, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for graft last year, had accepted shopping cards worth of 200,000 yuan from Luo.
The graft amount involving disgraced officials in China has been rising since 2006, leading to a call to step up the anti-corruption campaign, according to the Legal Evening News yesterday.
A total of 11 provincial and ministerial-level officials have received jail terms ranging from life imprisonment to suspended death penalty this year, and all of them were charged with corruption involving at least 5 million yuan.
The offender Luo Yaping, former director of the Land Resources Bureau of Shuncheng District in Fushun City, said she will appeal after she was charged with taking bribes, embezzlement and possessing huge properties of unidentified sources by the Intermediate People's Court of Shenyang City on Monday.
Luo, 50, was dubbed as "the most corrupt female official who took the largest amount of illegitimate money, by the worst means, while in the lowest-level government position in China's anti-corruption history" by officials with the Communist Party's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection after she was detained in 2008, Xinmin Evening News reported yesterday.
Luo was also said to enjoy an ostentatious lifestyle highlighted by her sexual relationships with a handful of "pretty boys", ranging from her colleagues, other government agency workers to businessmen who needed her approval for land use, according to an earlier report by People's Daily.
Luo would force targeted males to become her lovers, either by luring them with money and instant promotion, or simply threatening them with her power. In one case, Luo offered a lump sum of 1 million yuan to her subordinate Ge Feng, who was almost 12 years her junior, to dispense with his wife, People's Daily said.
The court said Luo also took huge amounts of kickbacks from real estate developers for projects and embezzled massive government compensations for residents who were forced off their houses due to demolition during her tenure from 1987 to 2007.
To pave way for her corrupt deals, Luo weaved a huge network that entangled her superiors and subordinates, to provide help and interchange information. Her former superior Jiang Runli, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for graft last year, had accepted shopping cards worth of 200,000 yuan from Luo.
The graft amount involving disgraced officials in China has been rising since 2006, leading to a call to step up the anti-corruption campaign, according to the Legal Evening News yesterday.
A total of 11 provincial and ministerial-level officials have received jail terms ranging from life imprisonment to suspended death penalty this year, and all of them were charged with corruption involving at least 5 million yuan.
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