A former transportation official in north China's Hebei Province
was sentenced to 14 years in prison with political rights deprived
for three years on bribe-taking charges on Tuesday.
Zhang Quan, former deputy director of the Hebei Provincial
Department of Transportation, was found guilty of taking bribes
between 2002 to 2004, according to a judgment passed by Jingxian
People's Court in Jingxian County, Hebei Province.
The bribes included 1.623 million yuan (US$200,370) and US$1,000
in cash, 160,000 yuan worth of shares, and 5,000 yuan worth of
shopping cards.
Approximately 1.7 million yuan in cash has been retrieved and
turned over to the national treasury.
In mid-December last year, another transportation official Lu
Wanli, former director of the Guizhou Department of Transportation,
Guizhou Province, was executed on charges of accepting more than
25.6 million yuan (US$3.2 million) in bribes between June 1998 and
January 2002.
(Xinhua News Agency January 13, 2006)