TIANJIN, May 28 (Xinhua) -- A former senior legislator in northeast China's Jilin Province, Mi Fengjun, was sentenced Friday to death with a two-year reprieve for accepting bribes.
Mi, former vice chairman of the Jilin Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee, was convicted of having accepted bribes worth more than 6.28 million yuan (919,258 U.S. dollars), a verdict handed down by the Tianjin Municipal No.1 Intermediate People's Court said.
The ruling also included the confiscation of all of Mi's personal assets and the lifetime deprivation of his political rights.
According to the court, Mi took bribes from people and institutions who sought to benefit from his influence after he took various senior posts both in Jilin and it capital city, Changchun, between February 1992 and February 2008.
Since he surrendered most of the illicit gains, the sentence was lighter than it would have otherwise been, the court said.
Mi was removed from his post and expelled from the Communist Party of China in February 2009 for the alleged violations.
Source:
CCTV, May 28, 2010
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