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East China transport chief sentenced to life imprisonment for taking bribes (2) |
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18:42, July 11, 2007 |
The court heard that about 3.5 million yuan (460,000 U.S. dollars) had been retrieved, and the rest of the money remained to be recovered.
Zhao''s case is the latest in a series of corruption convictions involving Chinese transport officials. Most of China''s transportation infrastructure projects are funded and supervised by local governments, meaning they must be approved and supervised by powerful local government officials.
So far, 18 heads of communications departments in China have been convicted of corruption charges.
Last year, Wang Xingyao, former director of the Anhui transport department, was sentenced ten years in prison for accepting bribes totaling 135,300 yuan from a construction company in southern Guangdong Province and having more than 830,000 yuan in assets for which he could not account.
Earlier in 2006, Zhang Quan, former deputy director of the transport department in Hebei Province, was jailed for 14 years for taking more than two million yuan in bribes. The case involved 26 other local officials and a total of 40 million yuan.
In December, Lu Wanli, a transport official in southwest China''s Guizhou Province, was executed after being convicted of taking millions of dollars in bribes.
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