Former China’s former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Tang Renjian (2020-2024), was sentenced on Sunday (28) to a two-year death penalty for “accepting huge bribes,” the state agency said, according to the state agency. Xinhua.
This type of sentence, with suspended death penalties, is relatively frequent in the Asian giant in cases of corruption and implies that if the defendant does not commit new crimes and has adequate behavior during the period when the suspension is in force, may have his sentence switched to life imprisonment.
Tang was convicted of a Changchun City Court, which determined that, between 2007 and 2024, the former minister took advantage of the position to favor third parties in business, bids or employment contests, accepting money and goods equivalent to about $ 200 million.
All Tang’s personal properties will be confiscated and the illegal gains obtained with bribes will be recovered and intended for national accounts, the order added.
“Tang crimes represented serious damage to the interests of the state and the people, making it deserve the death penalty. Xinhua.
According to the official news agency, Tang stated guilty and “expressed remorse” in his final statement. Tang had been “disciplinary investigation” since May last year, and had been expelled from the Communist Party of China in November for “serious disciplinary violations” and “suspected bribes”, with authorities officializing their detention weeks later.
The main anti -corruption organs of the state and party were accused of “being ineffective in implementing decisions,” “making blind decisions,” being morally corrupted “and” showing unbridled greed. “
His dismissal this year raised to three the number of ministers of the Chinese regime abruptly dismissed as long as, in July 2023, the then Foreign Holder, Qin Gang, lost office only seven months after his appointment and after not being seen in public for a month.
Still in 2023, the then defense holder, Li Shangfu, was dismissed without complaint and later expelled from the Communist Party after being accused of a crime of corruption.
After his arrival in power in 2012, the current secretary general of the party and leader of the China Communist regime, Xi Jinping, began an anti-corruption campaign in which several high-ranking Chinese officials were convicted of accepting millionaire bribes.
Although this campaign, one of Xi’s prominent programs, discovered important cases of corruption within the party, some critics pointed out that it could also be used to end the political career of some of its opponents.
