China’s former minister for agriculture and rural affairs has been sentenced to death with reprieve for bribery at a court in Jilin province on Sunday.
Official report states that Tang Renjian ,”took bribes, including cash and property worth over 268 million yuan ($37.6 million) in various positions held from 2007 to 2024”.
President Xi Jinping started a campaign of purges of China’s domestic security apparatus in 2020, seeking to ensure police, prosecutors, and judges are “absolutely loyal, absolutely pure and absolutely reliable”.
