hristovbz
11 Aug 2009, 20:05
07/17/2007
Last week, China executed its former top food-and-drug regulator, Zheng Xiaoyu, 62. He was most likely shot in the back of the head or given a lethal injection. The official Xinhua news agency did not say. The point is, he was taking bribes from pharmaceutical companies, and now he's dead.
Earlier this year, China put to death Wang Zhendong, chairman of Yingkou Donghua Trading Group Co.
Wang was accused of swindling more than 36,000 people out of $385 million.
BEIJING, Aug. 7, 2009
China Airport Exec Executed for Corruption
(AP)
The former head of Beijing airport's management company was executed Friday following his conviction on corruption charges, state media reported, making him the latest figure brought down in China's battle against widespread graft.
An intermediate court found 60-year-old Li Peiying guilty in February of accepting almost $4 million in bribes and embezzling about $12 million in public money since 1995, the Xinhua News Agency said.
Li was executed after the Supreme Court upheld a lower court's rejection of his appeal, Xinhua said. The report did not say when the Supreme Court ruled, and it did not describe the method of execution.
Reports said Li's attorney had argued for leniency, saying his client had returned the stolen money.
China has long struggled against corruption among high-level Communist Party officials, especially in state-owned enterprises in the energy, transportation and other key sectors that wield vast political influence and access to state financing.
Li's execution came two days after word emerged that the head of China's nuclear power program was under investigation for alleged corruption. And just last month, the former chairman of China's second-biggest oil company, Sinopec, was convicted of taking $29 million in bribes and given a suspended death sentence. On Thursday, state media reported that two businesspeople were put to death for multimillion-dollar frauds.
In handing down its sentence in February, the Jinan Intermediate People's Court said there was evidence that Li had solicited the bribes, making the crime more serious. It said the amount of public funds Li stole resulted in "extremely large economic losses" for the state and constituted an "extremely serious crime."
Last week, China executed its former top food-and-drug regulator, Zheng Xiaoyu, 62. He was most likely shot in the back of the head or given a lethal injection. The official Xinhua news agency did not say. The point is, he was taking bribes from pharmaceutical companies, and now he's dead.
Earlier this year, China put to death Wang Zhendong, chairman of Yingkou Donghua Trading Group Co.
Wang was accused of swindling more than 36,000 people out of $385 million.
BEIJING, Aug. 7, 2009
China Airport Exec Executed for Corruption
(AP)
The former head of Beijing airport's management company was executed Friday following his conviction on corruption charges, state media reported, making him the latest figure brought down in China's battle against widespread graft.
An intermediate court found 60-year-old Li Peiying guilty in February of accepting almost $4 million in bribes and embezzling about $12 million in public money since 1995, the Xinhua News Agency said.
Li was executed after the Supreme Court upheld a lower court's rejection of his appeal, Xinhua said. The report did not say when the Supreme Court ruled, and it did not describe the method of execution.
Reports said Li's attorney had argued for leniency, saying his client had returned the stolen money.
China has long struggled against corruption among high-level Communist Party officials, especially in state-owned enterprises in the energy, transportation and other key sectors that wield vast political influence and access to state financing.
Li's execution came two days after word emerged that the head of China's nuclear power program was under investigation for alleged corruption. And just last month, the former chairman of China's second-biggest oil company, Sinopec, was convicted of taking $29 million in bribes and given a suspended death sentence. On Thursday, state media reported that two businesspeople were put to death for multimillion-dollar frauds.
In handing down its sentence in February, the Jinan Intermediate People's Court said there was evidence that Li had solicited the bribes, making the crime more serious. It said the amount of public funds Li stole resulted in "extremely large economic losses" for the state and constituted an "extremely serious crime."