Former public security minister Zhou Yongkang, the most senior Chinese official convicted of corruption, was jailed for life for taking an estimated 129 million yuan in bribes. Photo: Reuters
Former public security minister Zhou Yongkang, the most senior Chinese official convicted of corruption, was jailed for life for taking an estimated 129 million yuan in bribes. Photo: Reuters
Corruption in China
China /  Politics

China raises corruption threshold for death penalty

The move updates standards enshrined in the Criminal Law about two decades ago

Nectar Gan
Nectar Gan

Updated: 3:00am, 19 Apr, 2016

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Former public security minister Zhou Yongkang, the most senior Chinese official convicted of corruption, was jailed for life for taking an estimated 129 million yuan in bribes. Photo: Reuters
Former public security minister Zhou Yongkang, the most senior Chinese official convicted of corruption, was jailed for life for taking an estimated 129 million yuan in bribes. Photo: Reuters
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