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A Chinese court has sentenced a former senior official in the eastern city of Nanjing to death for accepting bribes.
Yang Youlin illegally accepted money and property totalling more than 2.2 billion yuan ($ 324 m) while holding various government posts from 1993 to 2023, the Changzhou Intermediate People’s Court said in a statement on Monday.
The bribes were paid to Yang in exchange for help with “undertaking projects, business operations, land grants and working capital”, the court in Jiangsu province said.
Yang was also convicted of embezzlement, offering bribes, misappropriation of public funds, abuse of power and money laundering in one of the most dramatic corruption cases in recent years in terms of the sheer scale of the bribes involved.
The bribes were paid to Yang in exchange for help with “undertaking projects, business operations, land grants and working capital”, the court in Jiangsu province said.
Yang was also convicted of embezzlement, offering bribes, misappropriation of public funds, abuse of power and money laundering in one of the most dramatic corruption cases in recent years in terms of the sheer scale of the bribes involved.
The court said Yang’s personal property would be seized and authorities would try to recover the full amount he received in bribes.
Yang was investigated as part of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s long-running anticorruption campaign, which critics say has been used partly to remove Xi’s political rivals.
He is the latest official to be sentenced to death for corruption in recent years in China.
