The former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China, Tang Renjian, was sentenced to death after he was found guilty of accusations of corruption, run by the State Xinhua reported.
Tang took bribes, including cash and real estate worth more than 268 million Yuan ($ 37.6 million), in various positions from 2007 to 2024, Xinhua said.
The Changchun Intermediate People’s Court suspended its death penalty for two years and noted that he had known his crimes, it added.
The Chinese Communist Party drove Tang in November 2024, six months after he was examined by the anti-graph watchdog and removed from his post.
President Xi Jinping started a campaign of purification equipment from the domestic security apparatus of China in 2020, and tried to ensure that the police, prosecutors and judges are “absolutely loyal, absolutely pure and absolutely reliable”.
Tang was governor of the western province of Gansu from 2017 to 2020 before he was appointed Minister of Agriculture and National Affairs, according to official biographies.
In January, XI said that corruption is the biggest threat to the Chinese Communist Party and remains on the rise.
