Former Chinese official sentenced to death for bribery


Wu Zhiming

The former vice secretary-general of China’s Jiangxi provincial government, Wu Zhiming, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for bribery, a court ruled on Wednesday.

Prosecutors found that Wu took the bribes while he successively served as district head and city official in the provincial capital of Nanchang as well as vice secretary-general of the Jiangxi provincial government between 2002 and 2011.