In one of China’s highest-profile corruption cases, Lai was convicted of accepting or soliciting a total of 1.79 billion yuan (8278 million) in bribes between 2008 and 2008, while also being a senior banking regulator. He was sentenced on January 5 by the Tianjin Secondary Intermediate People’s Court.
He was also convicted of corruption and post-marital charges.
Lai met with his close relatives before being sentenced to death by a Tianjin court following an order from China’s Supreme People’s Court.
Lynne’s “significant appropriate service” was not enough to punish her for her bribery offenses by giving her “facts, nature, circumstances and a degree of harm to society,” People’s Daily quoted a Supreme Court review as saying. .
President Xi Jinping launched an anti-corruption campaign when he took over the leadership of the ruling Communist Party in late 2012. Hundreds of officers have since been prosecuted.
Lain was expelled from the Communist Party in 2018.
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