China hands former security regulator anti-graft official suspended death sentence
- On Tuesday, a Chinese court sentenced former China Securities Regulatory Commission anti-graft official Wang Huimin to a suspended death penalty for corruption, citing his illegal acceptance of more than 436 million yuan in bribes.
- Wang accepted bribes in exchange for business and fundraising favors while holding official posts in Xinjiang and at the national securities regulator from 1998 to 2025, according to Xinhua.
- Judges granted a two-year reprieve because Wang disclosed facts unknown to investigators, cooperated partially, and expressed remorse, though they noted the "exceptionally large" bribes warranted the death penalty.
- The court ordered the confiscation of all personal property and a lifetime deprivation of political rights; under Chinese law, the two-year reprieve typically leads to commutation to life imprisonment.
- With no possibility of sentence reduction or parole, Wang will spend the rest of his life in prison as this first-instance judgment concludes the initial legal proceedings regarding his corruption case.
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China hands former security regulator anti-graft official suspended death sentence
A Chinese court on Tuesday handed Wang Huimin, a former anti-graft official at the China Securities Regulatory Commission, a death sentence with a two-year reprieve over corruption and said Wang illegally accepted more than 436 million yuan ($65 million).
Former member of the State Committee on Securities Regulation of the PRC, Van Huaymin, was sentenced to death with a two-year suspension for corruption offences; the Court in China found the former member of the PRC Committee on Securities Regulation of Van Huaymin to be guilty of over $65.4 million in bribery and handed over to RIA News with reference to China's Central Television (CCTV). Follow-up found that between 1998 and 2025, the defendan…
A Chinese court today sentenced to the death penalty, suspended for two years, a former leader of the country's scholarship regulator, for receiving bribes worth 436 million yuan (58,7 million euros).
Wang Huimin, a former member of the Party Committee of the Communist Party of China Securities Regulatory Commission and former head of the inspection team of the China Commission for Discipline Inspection of the National Commission for Discipline Inspection at the Securities Regulatory Commission, was found guilty of bribery. After the Chinese stock market crash occurred in 2015, members of the Securities Regulatory Commission frequently declin…
Newtalk news The Chengdu Intermediate People's Court of Sichuan Province, China today (27) publicly handed down a bribery case against Wang Huimin, a former member of the China Securities Regulatory Commission and former head of the China Securities Regulatory Commission's Discipline Inspection and Administration Committee, in the bribery case. Defendant Wang Huimin was sentenced to death for bribery, suspended for 2 years, stripped of politica…
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