Senior Chinese official given suspended death sentence for taking US$70.7 million in bribes
- The sentence on Wang Fuyu was announced a day after his case featured in a state television series about corruption
- The programme reported that the former Guizhou deputy Communist Party chief had arranged a lucrative contract with a now jailed executive from the Kweichow Moutai drinks company
A Chinese court handed a suspended death sentence to a former senior provincial official on Monday, one day after state television broadcast details of his corruption.
In November, Wang Fuyu, the former deputy Communist Party chief of Guizhou province, pleaded guilty to receiving 450 million yuan (US$70.7 million) in bribes.
As well as the death sentence, suspended for two years after which it will be commuted to life in prison, Wang was fined 1 million yuan and had all his property confiscated.
A statement from the court in Tianjin said Wang accepted the decision and would not appeal.
Wang, 69, was detained by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the party’s top disciplinary watchdog, last February, two years after his retirement.
