Woman official gets death sentence for embezzlement (Xinhua) Updated: 2004-07-11 16:28
A female official, in Qingyuan City of south China's Guangdong Province, was
sentenced to death Friday on charges of embezzlement and all her personal
property was confiscated, according to the verdict of the Guanzhou Municipal
Intermediate People's Court at the first trial.
Bao Yufeng, 51, was former director of the city's office for economic and
technological cooperation and general manger of a local state-owned materials
company.
Between April 1998 and Dec. 2002, Bao on a number of occasions abused her
power to trade for bribes of cash or directly embezzle public funds with
fraudulent finance tricks, according to the court.
She was accused of grafting a total of 9.6 million
yuan (US$1.2 million) and misappropriating 2 million yuan (US$241,000), according to
the court.
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