Ex-Chinese land official gets death penalty
December 30th, 2011 - 5:23 am ICT by IANSBeijing, Dec 30 (IANS) A former Chinese land official was sentenced to death for taking bribe in a real-estate case.
Zhong Xinming, 48, former deputy head of Longgang district, was Thursday given a death penalty with a two-year reprieve by the Intermediate People’s Court in Shenzhen.
Zhong was in charge of land use from 2007-2010, Xinhua reports.
Zhong and his brother Zhong Weiming received about $5 million in bribes from Wu Weiguang, a real-estate developer, in return for approval of a plot of land.
Zhong Weiming and Wu received 12 years and 11 years in prison respectively.
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