China executed official concerned in Corruption: China on Tuesday (December 17) hanged Li Jianping, a former official of north China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous area. Li Jianping was convicted in the nation’s biggest ever corruption case involving greater than US$421 million.
The demise sentence for Li Jianping, a former secretary of the Communist Party Working Committee that guidelines the Hohhot Economic and Technological Development Zone, was initially scheduled for September 2022 and was upheld on attraction in August 2024. According to the report of the authorities information company Xinhua, on Tuesday (December 17), after the approval of the Supreme People’s Court of China, a court docket in Inner Mongolia carried out Li’s demise sentence.
Jianping was concerned in the biggest corruption case in the nation
Li Jianping, 64, was discovered responsible by an intermediate court docket of illegally embezzling three billion yuan (greater than US$421 million). The quantity concerned in this case is the largest quantity concerned in a corruption case in the historical past of China.
Jinping is the essential foundation of the authorities’s mannequin
After coming to energy in 2012, Chinese President Xi Jinping made the anti-corruption marketing campaign a mainstay of his authorities mannequin. According to state media reviews, multiple million social gathering officers have been punished in this marketing campaign, together with two protection ministers and dozens of navy officers.
Jinping requested to confront the corruption of officers
In his speech at the plenary session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) in January this 12 months, Chinese President Xi Jinping referred to as on Party officers to confront corruption head-on.
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