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Vice-mayor sentenced to death for bribe-taking
By Xie Chunjiao (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-01-14 00:00
Former vice-mayor of Qingdao Wang Yan, also Party secretary of the city's
Laoshan District, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for taking
bribes of almost 5 million yuan (US$600,000).
The ruling was handed down by the Intermediate People's Court of Jinan,
capital of East China's Shandong Province, in a first-instance trial on Tuesday
morning.
Wang was also deprived of his political rights for life and had all his
personal property seized.
Court investigations found that when Wang was in the posts of deputy Party
secretary of Laoshan District and later Party secretary of the district, as well
as vice-mayor of Qingdao, he accepted 24 bribes worth 4.96 million yuan
(US$600,000) from 14 companies or units.
Between May 1999 and September 2003 in Laoshan, Wang helped the companies in
land procedures, jobs, house-purchases and construction projects in blatant
disregard of the law. To date only 370,000 yuan (US$44,700) of the money he made
has been recovered.
Wang was arrested on October 18, 2003 and charged on October 31 after an
investigation by the Anti-Corruption and Anti-Bribery Bureau of Shandong
Provincial People's Procuratorate.
Officials in Shandong Procuratorate said the case showed the determination of
the country to rectify land market order and standardize land transactions.
Sources with the local land regulating authorities say the Laoshan
land-leasing case is one of the five major cases of this kind announced by the
Ministry of Land and Resources, and Wang was one of the major wrongdoers. Other
major players are expected to go on trial in the near future.
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