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Beijing traffic management chief prosecuted for bribery

Xinhua, February 15, 2015 Adjust font size:

Song Jianguo, former head of the Beijing Traffic Management Bureau, will go on trial for suspected bribery, the local procuratorate announced on Sunday.

Song accepted bribes worth 23 million yuan (3.75 million U.S. dollars), according to the No.1 branch of the Beijing Municipal Procuratorate.

He was accused of helping a number of companies and individuals to get vehicle plates, which have to be granted through a lottery system.

The procuratorate did not say when the trial would take place. Endi