China sentences official to death for taking $325m in bribes

China sentences official to death for taking $325m in bribes

A court in eastern China has sentenced a former city official to death for taking more than 2.

Li Jianping, a former Inner Mongolia official, was executed in 2024 for embezzling and taking bribes totaling more than 3bn yuan.

Yang, who spent much of his career working on economic and technological development in Nanjing, had committed offences "of an extremely serious nature" and "caused exceptionally heavy losses to the interests of the state and the people", a court in Changzhou city said on Monday.

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