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Chinese state media announced on Tuesday that a high-ranking Communist Party official named Shi Wenqing has been sentenced to death on bribery charges.
According to the state-run Global Times, Shi was formerly the Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People’s Congress in Jiangxi, which is located in central China. He also held a post in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang.
From these positions, Shi allegedly raked in $28.6 million in bribes between 2003 and 2020, in exchange for which he provided “illegal assistance to institutes and individuals who were involved in financing and project contracting as well as the acquisition of state-owned land.”
Shi allegedly kept taking bribes for months after he retired from office in 2019.
