China: Former 70-year-old legislator sentenced to death for taking bribe
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| Updated on: 10 February 2017, 1:47 IST
China, on 9 October, sentenced a 70-year-old former senior legislator to death for taking "a huge amount of bribes" and holding excessive assets with unidentified sources. He is the latest official to be punished for graft under a campaign launched by President Xi Jingping.
Bai Enpei, former senior lawmaker with China's legislature, the National People's Congress, who had also served as the head of the provincial committees of the ruling Communist Party of China in Qinghai and Yunnan province, respectively, has been deprived of political rights for life and had all his personal property confiscated.
Enpei has been sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
--PTI
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