BEIJING (Reuters) – A former Chinese justice minister who took a tough line on law enforcement has admitted taking bribes totaling more than 117 million yuan (17, $3 million), a Chinese court heard Thursday.
The trial of Fu Zhenghua, 67, began Thursday at Changchun Intermediate People’s Court in Jilin province, more than three months after the former official was arrested on suspicion of accepting bribes. wine and “circumventing the law for personal gain”.
He admitted his actions and expressed remorse, the court said in a statement.
Fu’s arrest and trial follow an investigation launched last year by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, China’s top anti-corruption watchdog. Fu was expelled from the Chinese Communist Party and public office for breaking party discipline and rules, the Xinhua news agency reported in March.
President Xi Jinping in 2020 launched a campaign of purges of China’s internal security apparatus to ensure that police, prosecutors and judges are “absolutely loyal, absolutely pure and absolutely reliable”.
(Report Eduardo Baptista, French version Federica Mileo, edited by Jean-Michel Bélot)
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