Corruption trial begins for top ex-official author： |
| link 《Global Times》 April 27 2010: |
| Zhu Zhigang, a former director of the Budgetary Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, appeared in court Monday on corruption charges. |
| Zhu Zhigang, a former director of the Budgetary Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, appeared in court Monday on corruption charges. Prosecutors in Xinyang, Henan Province, said Zhu helped others gain profits, secured loans and helped with ap-pointments to public positions by taking advantage of his posts as assistant finance minister and deputy finance minister, from January 2000 to March 2008. In return, he accepted bribes worth more than 7.44 million yuan ($1.09 million), prosecutors said. The Xinyang Intermediate People's Court handled the case. The hearing was open. No ruling was issued. Zhu was stripped of his membership in the Communist Party of China (CPC) in June last year due to "severe violation of disciplines and the law." He was expelled from the NPC in December 2008, two months after the NPC Standing Committee endorsed Zhu's resignation from the positions of NPC Standing Committee member, director of the Budgetary Affairs Commission of the NPC Standing Committee, and vice chairman of the NPC Financial and Economic Affairs Committee. Zhu, who was born in May 1950 in Beijing, was elected an NPC deputy for northwestern Shaanxi Province. |
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