Former Chinese Local Official Receives Death Sentence in $324M Graft Case
The court said Yang took more than 2.2 billion yuan in bribes and caused major losses, making this one of China’s largest corruption cases.
- On Monday, the Changzhou Intermediate People's Court sentenced Yang Youlin, the 69-year-old former executive deputy director of the Nanjing Economic and Technological Development Zone Management Committee, to death for bribery, embezzlement, and money laundering.
- Yang illegally accepted over 2.21 billion yuan from 1993 to 2023 in exchange for help with "undertaking projects, business operations, land transfers and capital turnover."
- The court deemed the bribery amount "especially huge" and circumstances "especially serious," ruling that Yang's statement expressing "guilt and remorse" was insufficient to warrant leniency given the harm caused to society.
- Amid President Xi Jinping's years-long anti-corruption campaign, nearly 5 million officials have been investigated and found guilty since 2012, according to a March 2025 U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence report.
- While executions for graft remain rare, they have been applied in cases exceeding 1 billion yuan, including the 2021 execution of Lai Xiaomin, former board chairman of China Huarong Asset Management.
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A court in China sentenced to death on Monday the former public official Yang Youlin for corruption, abuse of power, pecunate, money laundering and tip offering. According to the court decision, he received more than 2.2 billion yuan (about R$ 1.5 billion) in bribes over 30 years, in one of the largest corruption cases already tried in the country. Another angle: images show rescue of passengers after forced landing of hydroplane in New York; at…
The court concluded that the 69-year-old officer helped companies to obtain valuable contracts in exchange for money
He exploited his position from 1993 to 2023, taking bribes of more than 2.21 billion yuan.
China Sentences Former Official To Death Over $325 Million Bribery Scandal
China has sentenced former economic development official Yang Youlin to death after he was found guilty of taking bribes worth around £240 million over a period of three decades. Yang, who previously worked in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing, was also convicted of embezzlement, misappropriation of public funds, offering bribes, abusing his government office and money laundering. The case has become one of the most high-profile corruption pro…
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