Beijing: Tang Renjian, the former agriculture minister of China was sentenced to death on Sunday for accepting bribes amounting to USD 38 million. He was granted a two-year reprieve by the court for cooperating during the trial.

Tang, who was also a former secretary of the agricultural ministry’s leading communist party members’ group, has been deprived of his political rights for life, the Intermediate People’s Court of Changchun in northeast China’s Jilin Province said in its judgment, as reported by Xinhua. ADVERTISEMENT

All of Tang’s personal property will be confiscated and his illegal gains from bribery recovered and turned over to the national treasury, the court said.

According to the court, Tang took undue advantage of his various positions at both central and local levels to

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