Sinopec employee ‘accused of accepting bribe’ over engineering contract
Official was reported to the authorities after his wife found out he was having an affair, Beijing Television reported
An employee at a subsidiary of the state-owned oil company Sinopec has been accused of accepting a bribe of 60,000 yuan (HK$76,000), a mainland media report said.
Qiao Hongcheng, aged 28, is alleged to have taken the cash from a company after it was awarded a contract for an engineering project, Beijing Television reported.
Qiao has attended a court hearing in the Chaoyang district of the capital.
He was reported to the authorities by his father-in-law after Qiao’s wife found out he was having an affair, the report said.
Qiao is alleged to have given 30,000 yuan to 40,000 yuan of the bribe to his wife and the rest to his girlfriend in Beijing, who had no knowledge of each other.
When Qiao’s girlfriend found out about his wife, she called her up. His wife then divorced him.