Former Chinese Agriculture Minister Tang Renjian was sentenced to a suspended death sentence for bribery by a court in Jilin province today.
Tang accepted bribes, including cash and property worth more than 268 million yuan ($37,6 million) in various positions he held from 2007 to 2024, China's Xinhua reported.
The court postponed his death sentence for two years because he confessed to his crimes.
The Communist Party of China expelled Tang in November 2024, six months after he was placed under investigation by an anti-corruption agency and then removed from his post.
President Xi Jinping began a purge campaign in China's internal security apparatus in 2020, seeking to ensure that police, prosecutors and judges are "absolutely loyal, absolutely clean and absolutely trustworthy," Reuters writes.
Tang served as governor of the western province of Gansu from 2017 to 2020 before being appointed Minister of Agriculture.
In January, Xi said that corruption was the biggest threat to the Communist Party of China and that it was still on the rise.
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