Director of the Public Security Bureau of Lucheng District, Wenzhou, in East China's Zhejiang Province, was sentenced to death Monday for taking bribes and owning a huge amount of property of unknown sources.
According to the Wenzhou Intermediate People's Court, which handed down the sentence, Wang Tianyi took 1.84 million yuan (about US$,687) and us$10,000 in bribes, and could not explain the source of more than 14.12 million yuan (about US$1.7 million)-worth of property.
(People's Daily May 28, 2002)
