China Executes Former Official in $412 Million Corruption Case.

XI, Jinping, 1953-; LIFE sentences; CAPITAL punishment sentencing; BRIBERY; NEWS agencies; ZONING

China executed former official Li Jianping from Inner Mongolia for corruption charges amounting to $412 million, a rare use of the death penalty for graft in the country. Li, the former party chief of an economic development zone in Hohhot city, was sentenced to death in September 2022 and lost his appeal in August. President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign has led to a record number of senior officials being implicated, with some receiving life imprisonment instead of the death penalty. [Extracted from the article]

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