BEIJING: The former deputy police chief of the Chinese megacity of Chongqing has been given a suspended death sentence for bribery, a court said yesterday.
Tang Jianhua was condemned to death with two years’ reprieve for taking bribes, a court official said. Under law, the punishment is normally commuted to life imprisonment.
He was found to have “possessed huge amounts of money from unidentified sources”, said the official. Earlier, the media said Tang was accused of taking bribes worth more than 16m yuan ($2.6m).
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