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Ex-Sinopec official admits taking bribes

By Song Yingge | January 25, 2017, Wednesday | Print Edition

A former general manager of China Petroleum and Chemical Corp (Sinopec), China’s largest oil refining and petrochemical enterprise, has been sentenced to 15 and a half years in prison and fined 3.2 million yuan (US$467,000) for corruption and accepting bribes, a court said yesterday.

Wang Tianpu had taken advantage of his position to claim personal expenses and help relatives, Nanchang Intermediate People’s Court in east China’s Jiangxi Province said.

Between 2003 and 2014, Wang accepted bribes totaling 33.48 million yuan and illegally possessed state-owned assets worth almost 800,000 yuan, the court said.

Wang had admitted his crimes and “actively helped returned the illicit gains,” which had lessened the punishment, the court said. All his illegal gains will be confiscated, it added.

In 2013, Wang was given a major disciplinary sanction, which often means a block on promotion, due to an oil pipeline explosion, caused by Sinopec’s negligence, in which 62 people died in Qingdao, in east China’s Shandong Province.

Wang became Sinopec’s youngest general manager when he took the role at the age of 43.

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