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Provincial Party chief gets life sentence
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-06-29 13:48
Liu Fangren, former secretary of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the
Communist Party of China (CPC), was sentenced to life imprisonment in Beijing
Tuesday for taking bribes by the Beijing No 2 Intermediate People's Court in its
first ruling.
Liu Fangren stands
for trial in a Beijing court for taking bribes.
[file] | Liu was found to take, on 22 separate
occasions, bribes of 6.61 million yuan (US$799,000) of renminbi and additional
US$19,900, between March 1995 and February 2002 when he was secretary of the CPC
Guizhou Provincial Committee and chairman of the Standing Committee of Guizhou
Provincial People's Congress.
Liu was accused of misusing his power to seek for illegal benefits for others
and his daughter-in-law was also accused of complicity with him in taking
bribes, according to the court.
All of the bribes have been confiscated along with Liu's personal properties.
Liu, 68, was the Party chief of southwestern Guizhou Province from 1993 to
2001 and appointed vice-chairman of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee
of the 9th National People's Congress in April 2002. He was expelled from the
CPC and handed over to the judicial authorities last April.
Liu's former colleague Liu Changgui, former vice-governor of Guizhou
Province, was also on the corruption trial from March this year. Lu Wanli,
former director of Guizhou provincial transportation department, was sentenced
to death on May 11 after being convicted of taking bribes.
As one of China's most impoverished provinces, Guizhou has a population of
some 38 million.
In 2003, 12 provincial or ministry-level Chinese officials were
penalized.
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