Monday, April 24, 2000
China executes deputy mayor for graft
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIJING, APRIL 23: Chinese authorities executed a deputy mayor on Sunday for
massive bribery, the latest official punished in a year-long campaign
against rampant corruption.
After a case review by China's Supreme Court, Li Chenglong (48) was put to
death in the impoverished southern region of Guangxi, where he worked as a
deputy mayor of Guigang city, the state-run Xinhua News Agency said.
On Thursday, the head of Guangxi's government from 1990-1998, Cheng Kejie,
was expelled from the ruling Communist Party ahead of his prosecution for
alleged bribery.
Cheng, a deputy chairman of China's national legislature, was one of the
most senior officials caught in the recently renewed campaign against the
graft that is undermining public support for Communist rule.
Li was convicted of bribery and having unexplained sources of income, Xinhua
said. It said that in exchange for approving promotions, loans, land and
construction contracts, Li took Dollars 478,500 worth of bribes in Chinese,
Hong Kong and US currencies between 1991 and 1996, when he was Communist
Party secretary of Yulin city in Guangxi, Xinhua said.
Li also couldn't explain where he got currencies worth more than Dollars
685,000 that were found in his home, along with jewellery, Xinhua said.
Copyright © 2000 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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