BEIJING: China has handed down a suspended death sentence to a former Xinjiang official for taking US$112 million in bribes, a court announced on Tuesday (April 22).
The court in Baoji, Shaanxi province, said that Li Pengxin (pic), former deputy secretary of the Communist Party committee in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, had amassed "especially huge sums" by abusing various official positions between 1999 and 2023, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
