A vice mayor in east China's Zhejiang Province was sentenced 12 and a half years in jail for bribery in land-for-money scandals, a local court said on Tuesday in its first trial.
Xie Weixing, Shaoxing City vice-mayor, accepted bribes worth about 1.2 million yuan (177,000 U.S. dollars) in exchange for approving housing projects and promoting officials between 1996 and 2008, according to the Intermediate People's Court of Ningbo City.
Xie, 53, was arrested by the Zhejiang Provincial Public Security Department in September. He used to hold the post of party secretary of the city's Xinchang County and was promoted to Shaoxing's vice-mayor in 2003.
He played a key role in ensuring the Xinchang-based Fengdao Group, a leading local company, won the bid for a nearly 90,000-square-meter block of farming land, according to the court.
The Group started real estate development on the land after the bidding. It's board chairman, Xu Xiaofang, was arrested before Xie.
Xie has not appealed by the press time.
Source: Xinhua
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