A former senior Chinese police officer was sentenced this Friday for corruption to a suspended death sentence commuted to life sentencea court announced, in a decision that joins a series of similar sentences this week.
Sun Lijun, 53, is a former Deputy Minister of Public Security. He pleaded guilty during the trial in July and his name has been mentioned in many cases.
His death sentence will be commuted to life sentence After two years of imprisonment, the People’s Court of Changchun, the capital of the province of Jilin (northeast), announced in a statement.
Chinese authorities announced several convictions of senior officials this week, just before the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) congress in mid-October in which President Xi Jinping hopes to get a third term as head of the political organization.
convicted of corruption
Sun Lijun He “used” the various positions he held between 2001 and 2020 to “assist” the remuneration through, individuals and companies to circumvent the law, the court said Friday.
Directly or through his associates, he received bribes totaling 646 million yuan, or approximately $ 91 million.
His crimes are “particularly serious” and “have caused significant losses to the interests of the country and the people”, underlined the court, which ordered the confiscation of all his personal assets.
At least 1.5 million people have been sanctioned during the current anti-corruption campaign launched by Xi Jinping after his rise to power in 2013.
On Thursday, a former Chinese justice minister and senior police officer, Fu Zhenghua, 67, was sentenced to death with a suspended sentence, commuted to life imprisonment, for accepting bribes of $ 16.65 million. (AFP)
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