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China’s erstwhile Justice Minister Tang Yijun was sentenced by a Chinese tribunal to beingness successful situation connected Monday (February 2, 2026) for taking bribes, authorities broadcaster CCTV reported.
The Xiamen Intermediate People’s Court successful the southeastern coastal Fujian state said Tang had illegally accepted spot worthy much than 137 cardinal yuan ($19.71 million) betwixt 2006 and 2022, and abused his presumption to question benefits for entities and individuals successful areas specified arsenic company listings, onshore buybacks, slope loans and lawsuit handling, according to CCTV.
“Tang’s actions constituted the transgression of bribery,” the tribunal said successful its ruling, adding that the sums progressive were “particularly huge” and caused “particularly superior losses” to the interests of the authorities and the people. Tang was besides deprived of governmental rights for beingness and had each of his idiosyncratic spot confiscated, CCTV said.
The condemnation comes arsenic President Xi Jinping presses up with a sweeping anti-corruption run that has ensnared a drawstring of high-ranking officials successful caller weeks. The country’s anti-graft watchdog said implicit the play it had opened a probe into Wang Xiangxi, Minister of Emergency Management - a uncommon lawsuit of a sitting Minister falling nether investigation.
Last month, China said its apical wide Zhang Youxia was being investigated, successful the highest-profile purge to day of elder subject leadership.
Tang, 64, started his vocation successful the eastbound Zhejiang province, wherever helium spent implicit 3 decades and roseate to go the province’s lawman Communist Party chief. He aboriginal served arsenic Governor of Liaoning state earlier being appointed Justice Minister successful 2020.
Tang came under probe successful April 2024 for suspected superior violations of subject and law, a word commonly utilized to notation to corruption. He was expelled from the Communist Party aboriginal that year.
