MBABANE:Tang Renjian, the Chinese former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has been sentenced to death with reprieve for bribery at a court in Jilin province on Sunday, Reuters reported quoting the Chinese State owned Xinhua News Agency.
Tang took bribes including cash and property worth over 268 million yuan ($37.6 million) in various positions held from 2007 to 2024, Xinhua said.
The Changchun Intermediate People's Court suspended his death sentence for two years, noting he had confessed to his crimes, it added.
“China’s Communist Party expelled Tang in November 2024, six months after he was placed under investigation by the anti-graft watchdog and removed from his post. Tang’s investigation was unusually swift and followed similar investigations into Defence Minister Li Shangfu and his predecessor Wei Fenghe”, Reuters reported.
President Xi Jinping started a campaign of purges of China's domestic security apparatus in 2020, seeking to ensure police, prosecutors and Judges are "absolutely loyal, absolutely pure and absolutely reliable".
China sentence former Agriculture Minister Tang Renjian to death for corruption, allegedly accepted $37.6million bribes(pic:Internet).