
What’s new: A former party chief of Southwest China’s Guizhou province has pleaded guilty to accepting over $113 million in bribes, one day after an ex-deputy governor received a suspended death sentence for bribery.
Sun Zhigang was accused of taking advantage of positions he held in Guizhou, Anhui and Hubei provinces to help others get project contracts, acquire stock and develop real estate, according to a Wednesday statement from Tianjin No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court.