Chinese court gives ex-official 17 years in prison for bribery
A Chinese court has given a 17-year jail term to a former senior provincial official on charges of accepting around 13 million yuan (USD 2.1 million) in bribes.
According to a statement by the Intermediate People’s Court in Dongying City, Ni Fake, a former deputy governor of the eastern province of Anhui, was also stripped of one million yuan (USD 160,000) worth of personal property, which he failed to explain the sources of.
The court added that the 60-year-old had received “cash, jade artifacts and precious stones” from company executives on 49 occasions in 12 years.
The trial for Ni was held in Anhui’s neighboring province in line with a policy by China to hold corruption trials for officials outside the geographical area where they are believed to have committed crimes in order to prevent them from tapping into their potential local powers to affect court proceedings.
According to the AFP, corrupt authorities in China have in recent years preferred art and precious stones rather than money as bribe.
Ni is said to have been “obsessed with collecting jade” and appointed himself honorary chairman of the provincial jewelry industry association.
He is the latest official to be targeted in Chinese President Xi Jinping’s anti-graft campaign, which has already trapped a number of top Chinese figures, including Zhou Yongkang, a former member of China’s Politburo Standing Committee.
The Chinese president has intensified the crackdown on corruption since assuming the Communist Party’s top post in 2012.
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