70-year-old corrupt official had US$37m in assets
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A FORMER provincial Communist Party boss was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve yesterday. His personal assets were also confiscated.
Anyang City Intermediate People’s Court in central China said Bai Enpei had been found guilty of taking “a huge amount of bribes” and possessing a large amount of income from unidentified sources.
Bai had been a senior lawmaker with the National People’s Congress, and was Party chief in southwest China’s Yunnan Province until 2011 and earlier the top-ranking official in the western province of Qinghai.
The 70-year-old is said to have abused his posts to illegally amass, personally or through his wife, more than 247 million yuan (US$37 million) in assets.
He was given a two-year reprieve as he had admitted his crimes and expressed regret, and because the assets were recovered in full, the court said.
Suspended death sentences in China usually revert to life imprisonment after two years of good behavior.
“The amount of bribes Bai Enpei accepted was huge, the details of his crimes extremely serious, and their social impact especially pernicious,” the court said on its official blog.
Between 2000 and 2013, Bai had taken advantage of his positions and power to wrongfully benefit others in areas including real estate development, mining rights acquisition and promotions, the court said.
Meanwhile, two other former high-ranking officials, Zhou Benshun and Yang Dongliang, were formally charged with corruption yesterday, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said on its website.
Zhou was Party boss of Hebei Province, just outside Beijing, while Yang led the State Administration of Work Safety.
Both are charged with taking bribes. Yang is also accused of embezzling public assets.
Yang was placed under investigation in August last year, shortly after a massive explosion at a chemical storage warehouse in the northern port city of Tianjin that killed 173 people, mostly firefighters and police, in one of China’s worst workplace accidents. He was removed as the agency’s director shortly after the incident.
Yang, also a former vice mayor in Tianjin, is accused of abusing his positions and accepting bribes in “huge amounts.”
Prosecutors filed a lawsuit with Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court that said Yang, by taking advantage of his posts, had sought benefits for others and accepted huge bribes.
He was expelled from the Party and removed from public office in October last year.
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