Two allies of China’s ex-security czar jailed for corruption
13 Oct 2015 6:05 AM IST
A former <g data-gr-id="22">state-assets</g> chief in China was on Monday sentenced to 16 years in jail for corruption along with a deputy party chief of Sichuan province, becoming the latest officials to fall under President Xi Jinping’s sweeping anti-corruption drive against “tigers and flies”.
Jiang Jiemin, former head of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission - the body that regulates China’s state-owned firms, and Li Chuncheng, former vice Communist Party of China (CPC) boss of Sichuan, joined the list of casualties in the three-year-long campaign that has punished as many as 80 top officials of the country.
The two officials are considered close to disgraced security czar Zhou Yongkang, the top-most CPC leader to be sentenced in China’s recent history after Bo Xilai, party leader from Chongqing. Jiang, 60, was found guilty of taking bribes, holding <g data-gr-id="28">huge</g> amount of property with unidentified sources and abusing power. Besides being sentenced to 16 years in prison, his personal assets worth 1 million yuan (about USD 1.60 lakhs) were also confiscated, the Hanjiang Intermediate People’s Court in central China’s Hubei Province said.
Jiang was chair of the board of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) before working for the <g data-gr-id="27">state-assets</g> commission in March 2013.
The court also ordered to confiscate other property he took as bribes or with unidentified sources as well as illegal earnings others got with his help.
Jiang accepted his sentence and will not appeal.
By the end of <g data-gr-id="25">August,</g> 2013, his personal and family property exceeded the legitimate earnings and he had 14.8 million yuan unaccounted, the court said.
With instruction and consent from Zhou, former member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, Jiang violated regulations by helping others in businesses, causing huge losses to the state, it added.
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