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China jails provincial transport chief for bribery
Beijing (AFP) Jul 24, 2006 The former transport head of an eastern Chinese province has been jailed for 20 years for giving and taking nearly 3.2 million yuan (400,000 dollars) in bribes, state press said Monday. Zhang Junyuan, who was the head of Jiangsu province's transportation department, was sentenced by an intermediate court in southeastern Fujian province last Thursday, the Beijing Times reported. Zhang was also a leading official in several state-run road construction companies in Jiangsu between 2000 and 2004, the report said. He was convicted of 23 counts of receiving bribes totalling 1.18 million yuan, it said. Zhang was also found guilty of giving two million yuan in bribes to a provincial Communist Party official to help several unnamed cronies, the report said. The official was convicted in a separate case. Between 1997 and 2004, the top road construction officials in nine Chinese provinces were either sacked or jailed over corruption scandals, earlier state press reports said. In the most high profile case, the former deputy director of Beijing's transportation department Bi Yuxi, who was in charge of road building ahead of the 2008 Olympic Games, was sentenced to death in March 2005 for taking 10 million yuan in bribes from 1993 to 2003. Other officials have also been caught up in corruption scandals recently. Last week a senior Shanghai city official and member of China's national parliament was put under investigation for corruption, a municipal spokesman said. Last month state press reported that the deputy commander of China's navy, Wang Shouye, another member of parliament, had been sacked for abuse of power, graft and "economic crimes". Liu Zhihua, one of Beijing's vice mayors who was in charge of construction projects for the 2008 Olympics, was also sacked last month on corruption charges. Chinese President Hu Jintao in June called for a "resolute" fight to stamp out corruption within the Communist Party, following a spate of arrests and sackings of party members for graft. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links China News from SinoDaily.com
China eases capital controls on overseas investment
Beijing (AFP) Jul 23, 2006 China's foreign exchange authority has granted 4.8 billion dollars in overseas investment quotas as part of efforts to allow the greater convertibility of the yuan, state press said Sunday. |
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