Off the wire
• South African cricket captain to face official hearing over ball tampering claims  • Some Thais secretly support ISIS: Deputy police chief  • China's cities produce 185 mln tonnes of household garbage in 2015  • China braces for ice flooding on Yellow River  • Cambodia passes budget for 2017 despite opposition's boycott  • 1st LD-Writethru-China Focus: Chinese stocks hit 10-month high  • Economic Watch: China promotes Asia-Pacific economic cooperation in spirit of reform, innovation  • Weather forecast for world cities -- Nov. 22  • Weather forecast for major Chinese cities, regions -- Nov. 22  • Greek citizens want national consensus on debt issue: poll  
You are here: 　 Home

Former Liaoning official sentenced to over 13 years in prison

Xinhua, November 22, 2016 Adjust font size:

A court in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province Tuesday sentenced Chen Tiexin, a former senior political advisor in Liaoning Province, to 13 years and nine months in prison for taking bribes.

Chen, former vice chairman of the Liaoning Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, will have personal property worth two million yuan (290,613.19 U.S. dollars) confiscated, according to the Harbin City Intermediate People's Court in Heilongjiang.

From 2008 to 2013, Chen took bribes of cash and goods worth a total of 21.95 million yuan when he was Communist Party chief of Chaoyang City. He helped the companies or individuals that offered the bribes with construction projects, bank loans and promotions, it said.

According to the court, Chen repented, confessed and returned his illegal gains "in an active manner," all of which are grounds for leniency. Endi