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Senior commerce official admits graft in court
By Zuo Likun (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2010-03-19 10:37
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Guo Jingyi, a former senior inspector at the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, admitted all charges in court in Beijing on Thursday, including taking 8.44 million yuan ($1.23 million) in bribes, of which 1.65 million yuan ($214,700) is in real estate property, the Beijing Times reported.
Guo, 44, is the ministry's topmost former official ever to stand trial on graft charges.
The law graduate from Peking University served at the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation before he was promoted to the Department of Treaty and Law at the Ministry of Commerce in March 2007, then the ministry's youngest-ever director-general.
He was taken away from his post on Aug 13, 2008, along with two of his business associates.
Thursday's hearing was held at the Beijing No.2 Intermediate People's Court. The judge has yet to reach a verdict.
