The death sentence against the former Deputy head of the Committee of National political consultative Council of China (NPKS) Autonomous region of Inner Mongolia (Northern China) Zhao Lipina executed. About it reports “Xinhua”.
Zhao has been recognized by the Supreme people’s court (SNC) China guilty on several counts. In particular, the court found that on March 20, 2015 in the city of Chifeng, the former officer shot a woman by the name of Lee.
In addition, the investigation proved that in the period from 2008 to 2010, Zhao, who at that time was chief of the public security Department of the Autonomous region of Inner Mongolia, had received bribes from local entrepreneurs, but also contributed to reward the number of appointments. The total amount of illegally received money was 23,68 million yuan (about 3.5 million).
October 17, 2016, the court in the Chinese city of Baoding, Hebei province, sentenced the former Deputy head of the Department of the coal industry State administration of energy Affairs of the country to death, suspended for two years on charges of corruption. Wei Pinyuan from 2000 to 2014, has received bribes in the amount of 212 million yuan (about 31.5 million U.S. dollars).
April 18, last year it was reported that the Supreme people’s court and Supreme people’s Procuratorate of the China agreed that the death penalty will be applied against the officials who received the bribe, the amount of which exceeds 460 thousand dollars.
A full-scale campaign against corruption in China began after the election of the President of China in March 2013, XI Jinping. He urged to struggle with corruption, striking “and the tiger and the fly”, that is, sparing neither small, nor high-ranking officials.