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Ex-police official handed life sentence for bribery
By Leeann Li |
June 15, 2012, Friday
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A former high-ranking police official in southern China who took bribes from mafia-type gangs to protect their illegal activities and invested in their casino during his tenure has been sentenced to life imprisonment.
Feng Shiru, former deputy director of the city of Yangjiang's Public Security Bureau in Guangdong Province, was convicted of taking 7 million yuan (US$1.1 million) in bribes and 4.5 million yuan of assets after he was promoted to the post in 1995.
The Yangjiang Intermediate People's Court ordered all of his illegal income confiscated and deprived him of his political rights for life.
Feng received bribes from two ringleaders, Lin Guoqin and Xu Jianqiang, who ran underground casinos, and he would tip them off ahead of a police operation. Lin received the death penalty with reprieve while Xu was executed, a local newspaper, New Express, reported.
Feng also invested HK$2.5 million (US$322,000) in a casino run by the gangs in Macao in 2004 and took advantage of his position to let convicted gang members serve their sentences outside the prison.
Feng also aided his relatives. In 2000, he illegally detained a gravel mining employee surnamed Huang under the guise of ignoring the law and threatened him unless he recruited his relatives, the court said.
Feng stood trial in May, the paper said.
The two major mafia-type gangs in Yangjiang led by Lin and Xu were busted in 2007. Tens of thousands of armed police were mobilized to escort the 43 gang members to the trial in December 2009, Nanfang Daily reported.
Feng Shiru, former deputy director of the city of Yangjiang's Public Security Bureau in Guangdong Province, was convicted of taking 7 million yuan (US$1.1 million) in bribes and 4.5 million yuan of assets after he was promoted to the post in 1995.
The Yangjiang Intermediate People's Court ordered all of his illegal income confiscated and deprived him of his political rights for life.
Feng received bribes from two ringleaders, Lin Guoqin and Xu Jianqiang, who ran underground casinos, and he would tip them off ahead of a police operation. Lin received the death penalty with reprieve while Xu was executed, a local newspaper, New Express, reported.
Feng also invested HK$2.5 million (US$322,000) in a casino run by the gangs in Macao in 2004 and took advantage of his position to let convicted gang members serve their sentences outside the prison.
Feng also aided his relatives. In 2000, he illegally detained a gravel mining employee surnamed Huang under the guise of ignoring the law and threatened him unless he recruited his relatives, the court said.
Feng stood trial in May, the paper said.
The two major mafia-type gangs in Yangjiang led by Lin and Xu were busted in 2007. Tens of thousands of armed police were mobilized to escort the 43 gang members to the trial in December 2009, Nanfang Daily reported.
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