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China executes former corrupt justice official | China has executed a former senior justice official on charges of corruption. Fifty-five-year-old Wen Qiang
was executed Wednesday in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. Xinhua News
reported that the former director of the Chongqing Municipal Judicial Bureau had
been convicted of corruption charges involving organized crime. The Municipal
Higher People's Court had on May 21 rejected the appeal of Wen, who was sentenced
to death by a lower court April 14 for accepting bribes, shielding criminal gangs,
rape and failing to account for his cash and assets. The death sentence had been
forwarded to the Supreme People's Court and was approved, according to the Municipal
Higher People's Court. Wen served as vice director of the Chongqing Municipal
Public Security Bureau from 1992 to 2008, and later as director of the Chongqing
Municipal Judicial Bureau until he was arrested in September 2009. Wen took bribes
totaling more than 12 million yuan (1.76 million U.S.dollars) personally or through
his wife from 1996 to 2009. In return, Wen offered posts for officials and helped
companies and business people obtain illegal profits. Wen was also convicted of
shielding five major organized crime gangs in Chongqing after accepting bribes
worth 756,500 yuan. |
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