Ex-city official in Yunnan gets 10yrs for graft
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A COURT yesterday jailed a former top city official in the southwest province of Yunnan, who bribed a couple featured on TV in one of China’s most high-profile corruption cases.
The war on graft, which President Xi Jinping has vowed to wage until officials cannot, dare not and do not want to be corrupt, has felled Party leaders from across the country and at all levels of the Communist Party.
The court found Gao Jinsong, the former Party boss for the provincial capital Kunming, guilty of giving and taking bribes, Xinhua news agency said. He was jailed for 10 years.
Among those bribes were two given to the former Yunnan Party boss Bai Enpei and his wife, Zhang Huiqing, a former manager at state-owned Yunnan Power Grid, to secure promotions.
During the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday in 2010 and 2011, Gao paid the couple a total of HK$2 million (US$260,000) for Bai to help him secure a promotion, the court found.
The couple were featured in a documentary by the Party’s Central Commission of Discipline Inspection broadcast on state television last year that gave the public juicy details of corrupt officials’ lavish lifestyles.
Bai was handed a suspended death sentence last October for accepting bribes of more than US$37 million.
Gao was convicted of using his position to help eight other unnamed officials to secure promotions.
Gao was also found to have taken bribes in exchange for policy changes, granting companies construction contracts and allowing deals to re-purpose land for development.
Gao was fined 1.3 million yuan, and all his illegal earnings will be confiscated and retrieved.
The sentence was not too harsh, as Gao confessed to more crimes than prosecutors knew about, the court said.
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