China has executed a former official who was convicted of corruption totaling more than 3 billion yuan ($412 million), CCTV has reported, citing a court in the North Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The execution comes as part of a widespread anti-corruption crackdown by the authorities in Beijing.
Li Jianping, former secretary of the Communist Party working committee of the Hohhot economic and technological development zone, was found guilty of crimes including bribery, misappropriation of public funds and colluding with a criminal syndicate.
The 64-year-old Li had initially been sentenced to death in September 2022 after authorities found he had leveraged his position as a state employee to embezzle funds. He lost an appeal this August and the verdict was then approved by China’s Supreme People’s Court. It was carried out on Tuesday.
The top court verified that Li misused over 1.437 billion yuan ($197 million) from state-owned company funds “through deceptive means,” of which more than 289 million yuan ($39.6 million) has yet to be recovered.
