Yang Dongliang, former head of the State Administration of Work Safety, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for accepting bribes and embezzlement on Tuesday by a court in Beijing.
Yang accepted the verdict and will not to appeal.
According to the verdict by the Second Intermediate People’s Court of Beijing, from 2002 to 2015 when Yang was vice mayor of Tianjin and a member of the standing committee of the Communist Party of China Tianjin municipal committee, head of the State Administration of Work Safety and other posts, he help others in running businesses, promotions, tenders and other issues, illegally accepting assets worth 28.5 million yuan (US$4.1 million).
In 1999, as head of Tianjin’s economic commission, Yang bought an apartment with public funds of 270,800 yuan.
Yang was shown leniency as he pleaded guilty, expressed remorse and returned his illegal gains.
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