A disease control official in southern China's Guangdong Province has been sentenced to 11
years in jail for taking more than 2 million yuan (US$250,000) in
bribes.
The verdict was handed down by the Guangzhou Municipal
Intermediate People's Court on Friday.
Cai Hangang, former head of the Vaccine Section with the
Immunity Planning Institute under the Guangdong Provincial Disease
Control and Prevention Center, was charged with taking advantage of
purchasing vaccines to accept bribes of 2.22 million yuan during
the period between September 2001 and February 2006, the court
heard.
Earlier in September, the director of the center's Immunity
Planning Institute Luo Yaoxing was sentenced to life imprisonment
for taking about 11.2 million yuan in bribes.
Part of the bribes were taken by Cai and Luo together.
In another corruption?case,?a former vice
director of Beijing Seismological Bureau was jailed for 11 years on
Friday for fraudulently claiming 300,000 yuan (US$37,500) for
maintenance work.
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Beijing No.1 Intermediate People's Court heard that
Du Fulai, 51, falsified a contract with a private construction
decoration firm to renovate a seismological station in Beijing's
suburbs.
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Du was convicted on corruption charges and made no
comments on whether he will appeal.
(Xinhua News Agency December 9, 2006)