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Fugitive official takes US$30m, reports say
By Shao Xiaoyi (China Daily)
Updated: 2004-12-08 22:17
Yang Xiuzhu, fugitive former vice-director of the Zhejiang Provincial
Construction Bureau, is believed to have taken bribes of 253.2 million yuan
(US$30 million), according to a report from Xinhua News Agency.
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undated file photo shows Yang Xiuzhu takeing a rest during meeting.
| It is reported that in Yang's case 19 related
officials are under investigation, of whom nine were county-level officials and
have been sent to judicial authorities to face possible legal punishments,
officials from the Wenzhou Discipline Inspection Commission said at a meeting on
Tuesday.
Officials said the investigation in Yang's case bore fruit when 42.4 million
yuan (US$5 million) was recovered and property and funds of over 70 million yuan
(US$8.4 million) was frozen.
About five special groups with more than 40 officials from discipline
inspection departments were set up in November of last year in five places in
Wenzhou, where Yang served as vice-mayor before being promoted to the
vice-director of the provincial construction bureau, to investigate the case,
according to officials from the Wenzhou Discipline Inspection Commission.
To date, officials have collected evidence from interviewing more than 100
witnesses.
Media began to focus on the case after Yang fled abroad with her daughter,
son-in-law and grandson on April 20, 2004 when the local government began to
deal with the case.
Yang Guangrong, deputy general manager of the Wenzhou Railway Real Estate
Development Company, and the younger brother of Yang Xiuzhu, was sentenced to 10
years and six months imprisonment for accepting bribes.
Yang Xiuzhu, 58, held the post of vice-mayor of Wenzhou from 1995 to 1998 and
was in charge of urban planning and construction.
In 1998, Yang became the vice-director of the Zhejiang Provincial
Construction Bureau.
Gao Yunguang, once vice-director of the Wenzhou Urban Planning Bureau, and
Sha Shaohua, former deputy general manager of Wenzhou Railway Real Estate
Development Company, were charged with helping Yang Xiuzhu embezzle over 11
million yuan (US$1.32 million) in February 2004.
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