China corruption news: Bribery is common in many countries like India. Many of them also jokingly say that if they are caught taking bribe, they get released by paying the bribe. This is happening not only in India but in many countries. But the case of China is the opposite. Former Bank of China Chairman Liu Liang was sentenced to death on Tuesday in a corruption and illegal loan allocation scandal. It has been proved that he had taken a bribe of 121 million yuan i.e. 1.68 crore dollars (Rs 160 crore).
A court in Jinan city in China’s eastern Shandong province has convicted Liu Linang and sentenced him to death in a bribery scandal, drawing worldwide attention. In general, the death penalty for bribery is rarely imposed in other countries. Even in the fundamentalist so-called Islamic countries of the Middle East, a government official has rarely been executed for bribery. In that too, the announcement of death sentence to the head of a prestigious institution like Bank of China has created a stir not only in China but in the entire world.
Liu was deprived of political rights for life, with all his personal property confiscated. All illegal profits earned by him will be recovered from him and deposited in the state treasury. The court found that Liu abused various positions at the Export Import Bank of China and the Bank of China and took bribes to assist others in loan financing, project cooperation and personal arrangements.
In addition, they also gave loans of more than 3.32 billion yuan to ineligible comp.es in violation of legal regulations. At its peak, capital losses were 190.7 million yuan (i.e. $2.7 million). Liu is thus the second banker to receive the death penalty for corruption.
On November 20, the Chinese Communist Party ousted Luo Wenlong, former vice president of the Agricultural Bank of China, on corruption charges.
Apart from this, proceedings have also been initiated against Wang Yixin, former vice-governor of northeastern China’s Heilongjiang province, on charges of taking bribes. This action will be taken after investigation by the National Supervision Commission. The Heze Municipal People’s Procuratorate in China’s eastern Shandong province filed the case with the city’s Intermediate Court following an investigation by the National Supervision Commission.
Prosecutors allege Wang worked in Hainan and Shaanxi provinces to provide benefits to others in exchange for bribes. These benefits were of huge amount. Since Chinese President Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, he has launched a massive anti-corruption campaign, prosecuting more than one million corrupt officials, including two former defense ministers and top military officers.
China is the country with the highest death penalty
Even today, death penalty is applicable in 55 countries of the world.
– A total of 2,016 hanged in 2022 under the leadership of Iran, Iraq, Egypt
New Delhi: Death penalty is still applicable in 55 countries of the world. 23 of them have the death penalty, but they have never used it in the last ten years. While nine countries impose the death penalty only for the most serious crimes.
Amnesty International believes that China executes the most people in the world every year, but China has never released its figures. It is believed that China executes thousands of people every year.
Apart from China, 883 death sentences were carried out in 2022. This is the highest figure since 2017. Although this figure is lower than the figures for 1988, 1989 and 2015, more than 1,500 people were hanged every year during these years.
According to Amnesty International, the death sentence given in 2016 was scheduled to be carried out in 2022. At the end of 2022, 28,282 people were on death row globally. In 2021, 18 countries and in 2022, 20 countries sentenced people to death.
Apart from China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and America are among the countries that carry out the highest number of executions. According to Amnesty report, there are 11 countries which continuously execute people every year. These include China, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, America, Vietnam and Yemen.
In that too, in 2022, Saudi Arabia sentenced the maximum number of people to death in the last 30 years. Iran sentenced 255 people, Saudi Arabia 57 and Singapore 11 for drug crimes. A total of 112 countries in the world do not have death penalty, in 1991 this figure was in 48 countries. America sentenced a person named Kenneth Smith to death by using nitrogen gas in Alabama.
In May, a former banker was also sentenced to death in China
Beijing: A Chinese court on May 29 sentenced Bai Tianhui, former general manager of China Huarong International Holding, to death on charges of taking bribes. A court in Tianjin has sentenced a former banker to death for accepting bribes worth $15.1 million. All their properties were confiscated and all the illegal profits earned by them would also be recovered from them and deposited in the government treasury. According to the court’s decision, Ben’s work can be called bribery. He took huge amount as bribe. Its social impact can be extremely devastating and has dealt a huge blow to the interests of the country and the people.
