City Official Executed For Massive Bribery

Mon., April 24, 2000

Chinese authorities executed a deputy mayor Sunday for massive bribery, the latest official punished in a campaign against corruption.

After a case review by China’s Supreme Court, Li Chenglong, 48, was put to death in the impoverished southern region of Guangxi, where he was a deputy mayor of Guigang city, the state-run Xinhua News Agency said.

In exchange for approving promotions, loans, land and construction contracts, Li took $478,500 worth of bribes between 1991 and 1996, when he was Communist Party secretary of Yulin city, Xinhua said.

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