CHINA-INTERNAL: ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN

 Bai Enpei and Wei Pengyuan, two former high-ranking Chinese officials were sentenced on October 9, 2016, by the the Anyang City Intermediate People’s Court in Henan province and Baoding City Intermediate Court in Hebei province respectively, to  life in prison without the possibility of a sentence reduction or parole (“life without parole,” or LWOP).  Bai Enpei was previously Party Secretary in Yunnan and Qinghai provinces and most recently a Vice Chairman of the National People’s Congress Environment and Resources Protection Committee. Bai Enpei has been convicted of illegally amassing more than RMB 247 million yuan (approximately USD $37 million) in assets. Wei Pengyuan was  a Deputy Director of the Coal Department at the National Energy Administration until he was put under investigation in 2014. Wei Pengyuan has been convicted of taking bribes to approve coal projects and accumulating more than RMB 200 million yuan (approximately USD $40 million) at his home.


(Comment: Bribery charges in excess of RMB 3 million yuan trigger a maximum penalty of death. Bai Enpei and Wei Pengyuan have become the first “tigers” ensnared in Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign to receive sentences mandating that they die behind bars.) 






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