A former vice-mayor of Chenzhou city in central China's Hunan Province was sentenced to 20 years for bribe taking and embezzlement, according to a verdict handed down from the Provincial Higher People's Court.
Lei Yuanli, 55, was the vice-mayor, director of the housing fund administration committee and deputy head of the Chenzhou municipal people's congress till he was arrested in June, 2005 for taking bribes.
In Sept. 4, 2006, the Changsha city Intermediate People's Court sentenced Lei to death, with a two-year reprieve. But Lei appealed against the ruling.
The provincial higher people's court said Lei took bribes of 6.71 million yuan (about 895,000 U.S. dollars) and misappropriated 26.5 million yuan from the housing fund administration center. He also pocketed 187,400 yuan of public funds by using false receipts.
Lei produced evidence that investigators had previously overlooked, and the court decided to sentence him to 20 years in prison. It also confiscated Lei's property worth of 320,000 yuan and deprived him of political rights for five years.
Also in Chenzhou City, Yang Xiushan, former party chief of the city's land and resources bureau, was sentenced to 13 years for taking bribes totaling more than 1.91 million yuan by the intermediate people's court of Xiangtan city.
He was also deprived of political rights for three years, with all the bribes and 100,000 yuan of personal property confiscated.
The court said most of the bribers were local mine owners and Yang's subordinates who wanted promotions.
Source: Xinhua
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