(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-12-01 17:27

HEFEI -- Chinese police have arrested the former head of one of China's biggest liquor producer for bribery and corruption, the local procuratorate in east China's Anhui province said on Saturday.

Wang Xiaojin.[cbw.com]

Preliminary investigations show that Wang Xiaojin, ex-board chairman of Gujing Group in Anhui and a former delegate to the National People's Congress, took bribes of several million yuan from advertising agencies, liquor companies and trading firms in return for offering preferential treatment, according to the procuratorate.

Wang, 58, was put under investigation in April this year.

Since then, he has been dismissed from his posts of vice chairman of the local political advisory body and board chairman of the liquor company. In October, Wang was stripped of his post as a deputy to the National People's Congress, China's top legislature.

Gujing Group, which is listed on the Shenzhen stock exchange, is  a state-owned enterprise.

Another nine high-ranking officials of the company have been punished for graft and corruption. One of them received 12 years in prison.