By Tomasz Janowski
A Chinese court has sentenced Yang Youlin, a former senior local official in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing, to death over corruption while also convicting him of abuse of power and money laundering among other charges, a court statement showed.
Yang illegally accepted money and property totalling over 2.2 billion yuan ($324 million) while holding various government posts from 1993 to 2023, the Changzhou Intermediate People’s Court in Jiangsu province said in a statement about its first-instance judgment on Monday.
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