A former security chief of the Chinese province of Hebei pleaded guilty in a Jiangsu court on Thursday to a range of graft charges against him, state media reported.
Zhang Yue, 56, a former provincial Communist Party standing committee member and secretary of Hebei’s politics and law commission, was on trial in the Changzhou Intermediate People’s Court accused of abusing his power and taking more than 157 million yuan (US$22.8 million) in bribes, China Central Television reported.
Zhang pleaded guilty to the charges against him, the report said.
A verdict has yet to be handed down in the case.
Disgraced former senior spy official Ma Jian, who is also facing prosecution for corruption, alleged Zhang colluded with him to take down rivals of businessman Guo Wengui, who is now in the United States.