Despite cooperating with investigators and detailing the crimes of others, the ex-Nanjing city official received China's ...

A Chinese court handed a rare death sentence to a former official on corruption charges, in a severe punishment underscoring the intensity of President Xi Jinping’s anti-graft crackdown.

In a stunning move amid a continued purge of its military, China on Thursday gave two former defense ministers suspended death sentences for corruption. Wei Fenghe and Li Shangfu were both convicted ...

A court in eastern China has sentenced a former local official to death for taking bribes worth hundreds of millions of dollars over three decades.

A Chinese court on Monday (July 6) sentenced Yang Youlin, a former senior local official in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing, to death over corruption while also convicting him of abuse of power ...

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A Chinese court has sentenced former Nanjing official Yang Youlin to death for accepting over 2.21 billion yuan in bribes over a span of three decades ...

Corruption cases involving three million yuan ($463,000) or more may incur the death penalty in future, Chinese authorities ruled Monday, signalling that officials could be executed for graft. Under ...

A former Chinese official, Yang Youlin, has received a rare death sentence for a £419 million corruption case. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.