A former high-ranking provincial official in east China's Anhui Province has been sentenced to death
with two-year reprieve for corruption charges, according to media
reports.
Wang Zhaoyao, ex-deputy chairman of the provincial committee of
the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), took bribes of 7.04 million yuan (about
US$891,000) and could not provide legitimate sources of about 6.5
million yuan in personal assets, the Procuratorial Daily
said.
Wang was convicted by the Intermediate People's Court of Jinan,
capital of eastern Shandong Province on Friday, which also
ordered the confiscation of his personal property, said the
official newspaper run by the Supreme People's Procuratorate.
Wang, 62, was appointed local Communist Party chief of Fuyang, a
city in Anhui, in 1989. He was promoted to the vice governor of
Anhui in 1993 and rose to the important position as provincial
deputy Party chief in late 1998. He started to serve as deputy
chairman of the provincial committee of the CPPCC in 2005,
according to Anhui Daily, the provincial government's
mouthpiece, which printed a story on Wang's trial on Saturday.
Wang took advantage of his Party and government positions to
take bribes from 44 individuals and groups between 1991 and 2005,
the newspaper said, quoting the court documents.
The court said Wang admitted "most of his wrong-doings", and had
returned and handed in "all the bribes". He also provided helpful
information relating to the investigation, according to the
paper.
(Xinhua News Agency January 14, 2007)