Former Tibet Communist Party secretary gets suspended death sentence over bribery
Wu Yingjie attends a news conference on the economic and social development of Tibet, in Beijing, China May 22, 2021.
PHOTO: Reuters file
BEIJING — A court in Beijing on Wednesday (July 16) sentenced Wu Yingjie, a former Communist Party secretary of China's Tibet region, to death with a two-year reprieve over bribery, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
Wu had accepted bribes amounting to more than 343 million yuan (S$61.36 million) between 2006 and 2021, the report said.
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