Former senior adviser charged with taking bribes
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A FORMER senior political adviser from south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has been charged with taking bribes, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate announced yesterday.
Li Daqiu, 61, is said to have sought benefits for others and accepted huge bribes when he was Party chief of Hezhou City in Guangxi and vice chairman of the regional political advisory body since 2003. Authorities began to investigate Li for disciplinary violations on July 6 last year. Two months later, he was expelled from the Party and removed from public office.
Officials didn’t reveal further details, but there have been media reports alleging involvement in illegal mine exploitation in Hezhou, a city rich in a variety of minerals, including gold, silver and tin.
The local mining industry boomed in the 1930s and the government had invested heavily in the sector since then, also putting policies in place to encourage private mining.
However, according to the 21st Century Business Herald, the local government failed to adequately supervise the industry, leading to the lucrative business being dominated by people with ties to government officials and mafia-type organizations.
Li Ruxiong, a mafia boss in Zhongshan County, was sentenced to life in prison in April over violence used to illegally occupy land and mines.
The case revealed the involvement of several officials, the newspaper reported, including Hezhou’s former vice mayor Mao Shaolie and Zhongshan’s former Party chief Tan Yuhe.
Mao stood trial on May 6 for taking bribes of 11.38 million yuan (US$1.82 million) and a verdict is awaited.
Tan was sentenced to 11 years and six months in jail on May 11 for abuse of power and accepting 4.791 million yuan in bribes.
Li Daqiu allegedly had offered protection to Li Ruxiong.
An anonymous Hezhou official told the paper that even though Li Daqiu “had no relevance” to the mining scandal, he was suspected of dereliction of duty as he was responsible for promoting Mao and Tan.
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