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Nearly 500 punished for SW China electoral fraud

Xinhua, September 15, 2015 Adjust font size:

Nearly 500 people in southwest China's Sichuan Province have been imprisoned or given administrative penalties for electoral fraud in 2011.

A total of 477 people, with the majority being Communist Party of China (CPC) members and officials, were involved in bribery that determined an election for standing members of the Nanchong municipal committee of the CPC prior to the first plenary session of the fifth CPC Nanchong municipal committee, in Sichuan on Oct. 19, 2011, according to a statement issued by the CPC Sichuan provincial committee on Tuesday.

An investigation launched in the latter half of last year found 16 officials offered bribes, another 227 facilitated the bid, 230 officials took bribes, while four neglected their duties. The money involved totaled 16.72 million yuan (2.63 million U.S. dollars), the statement said.

Yang Jianhua, former Party chief of Yilong County, was elected as a standing member of the CPC Nanchong municipal committee after using 800,000 yuan of public funds to bribe potential municipal committee members. He paid some of the bribes himself and had subordinates pay other, according to the provincial committee.

Yang was sentenced to 20 years in prison for offering and taking bribes and power abuse, while Liu Hongjian, then Nanchong's Party chief, was given three years for dereliction of duty.

Thirty-three of those involved have been expelled from the CPC, public office and their cases transferred to judicial organs.

Seventy-seven have been stripped of posts within and outside of the CPC, while the rest have received warnings, the statement said. Endi