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Former top rail official sentenced to suspended death

2014-10-17 15:35 CRIENGLISH.com Web Editor: Si Huan
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Former top railway engineer Zhang Shuguang appears in the Second Intermediate People's Court of Beijing Friday morning, October 17, 2014. (Photo: Sina Weibo)

Former top railway engineer Zhang Shuguang appears in the Second Intermediate People's Court of Beijing Friday morning, October 17, 2014. (Photo: Sina Weibo)

Zhang Shuguang, a former top railway official, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve by a court in Beijing Friday morning.

The former head of the Transportation Bureau under the then Ministry of Railways and its deputy chief engineer was convicted of taking briberies worth 47.55 million yuan (7.76 million US dollars).

Zhang pleaded guilty to the charges.

All his personal property will be confiscated.

Zhang was arrested in 2012.

Zhang's conviction comes more than a year after the former railway minister, Liu Zhijun, was convicted of corruption and received a suspended death sentence as part of a broader anti-graft campaign under President Xi Jinping.

Liu and Zhang oversaw the rapid expansion of high-speed rail in China.

The Ministry of Railways was dissolved in 2013 and its duties were taken up by the Ministry of Transport (safety and regulation), the State Railways Administration (inspection) and China Railway Corporation (construction and management).

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