Top Official Sentenced to Death for Corruption

A Guangdong official has been sentenced to death with two-year reprieve. From Xinhua:

Chen Shaoji, former top political advisor of south China’s Guangdong Province, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for accepting bribes, a court in southwestern Chongqing Municipality said Friday.

The Chongqing No.1 Intermediate People’s Court delivered the verdict after a trial that started June 25.

Chen was accused of using his position as former provincial police chief and chairman of the Guangdong provincial committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), among others, to benefit others in return for nearly 30 million yuan ($4.35 million) between 1992 and 2009.

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