Mistress of corrupt Chinese railway official loses her appeal against five-year jail sentence
Ex-singer Luo Fei given cars, luxury watches by business trying to curry favour with her lover
The mistress of a disgraced former senior official at China’s disbanded Ministry of Railways has lost her appeal against a five-year jail sentence after she was convicted of taking bribes.
Luo Fei, 33, was found guilty last year of accepting more than 1.5 million yuan (HK$1.9 million) in kickbacks, but appealed.
A statement from Beijing Municipal Higher People’s Court on Tuesday said it had upheld the sentence.
Lu was a former singer and the mistress of Zhang Shuguang, the railways ministry’s former deputy chief engineer who was responsible for buying rolling stock and other equipment. He was given a suspended death sentence last year for accepting more than 47 million yuan in bribes.
Luo accepted cash and gifts from Yang Jianyu, the former president of Guangzhou Zhongche Railway Vehicles Equipment.
Yang offered the bribes to Luo in order to curry favour with her lover and to help secure contracts with the ministry’s transport bureau to install air conditioners and other equipment.