Mistress caught up in bribery case

HANGZHOU: The mistress of a former air transport chief in East China's Zhejiang Province was charged for taking bribes, the first case of its kind in the province.

Wang Peiying, mistress of Zhao Zhanqi since the early 1990s, was charged by Huzhou municipal procuratorate on Wednesday with taking bribes of 550,000 yuan from a company bidding for a contract to build a new air terminal.

Wang took the money from the Longyuan Construction Group Co Ltd and helped the company beat 70 other bidders to win the contract in 1998, when Zhao was deputy head of the Xiaoshan airport construction headquarters.