A court in eastern China sentences former municipal official Yang Youlin to death for accepting bribes valued at more than 2.2 billion yuan (about US$323 million). The Changzhou Intermediate People’s Court says Yang, formerly an economic development official in Nanjing, illegally accepted property and assets totalling over 2.21 billion yuan over a period spanning 1993 to 2023. The court’s statement also links the case to China’s ongoing anti-corruption efforts under President Xi Jinping. The South China Morning Post reports that the sentence is rare for economic crimes in recent years and describes Yang’s conviction as including bribery along with additional offenses such as embezzlement, misappropriating public funds, abuse of power, and money laundering. Across both reports, the punishment is presented as one of the most severe in a major corruption prosecution involving alleged bribes on the scale of roughly US$323–$325 million. Both outlets also note Yang’s role in economic development work in the Nanjing area, specifically in the management of the Nanjing Economic and Technological Development Zone.
Chinese court sentences ex-official Yang Youlin to death in $323M bribery case
A court in eastern China sentences former municipal official Yang Youlin to death for accepting bribes valued at more than 2.2 billion yuan (about US$323 million). The Changzhou Intermediate People’s...
- Changzhou Intermediate People’s Court in eastern China sentences former official Yang Youlin to death.
- Authorities say Yang accepted bribes totaling more than 2.21 billion yuan (about US$323–$325 million) from 1993 to 2023.
- Yang is described as having served in economic development roles in Nanjing, including work related to the Nanjing Economic and Technological Development Zone.
- The case is tied to China’s broader anti-corruption campaign under President Xi Jinping.
- Reported charges include bribery, with at least one outlet also listing embezzlement, misappropriation of public funds, abuse of power, and money laundering.
WASHINGTON — A court in eastern China on Monday sentenced a former local official to death over taking bribes that authorities said amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars during a three-decade period. Yang Youlin, a former economic development official in the Jiangsu Province capital of Nanjing on China’ s east coast, “illegally accepted property and assets” valued over 2.21 billion yuan ($325 million) from 1993 to 2023, the Changzhou Intermediate People’s Court said in a statement. Yang was investigated as part of President Xi Jinping ’s decade-long anti-corruption campaign that critics say has been used partly to remove his political rivals. READ: China executes former senior banker […]...Keep on reading: China court hands ex-official death sentence in $325M bribery case
2 hours agoA court in eastern China has handed down a rare death sentence to a former municipal official convicted of taking more than 2.2 billion yuan (US$323.8 million) in bribes, marking one of the harshest punishments for economic crimes in recent years. Yang Youlin, who once served as executive deputy director of the Nanjing Economic and Technological Development Zone management committee, was found guilty of bribery, embezzlement, misappropriating public funds, abuse of power and money laundering....
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