Ex-security official in Hebei gets 22 years in prison for graft

Wang Shoucheng, former deputy head of the public security bureau in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, was sentenced to 22 years in prison on Wednesday for taking bribes, corruption, abuse of power and holding a huge amount of property with unidentified sources, a local court said.

Wang had made over 20 million yuan ($3 million) from bribes, misappropriated public property valued at 3.4 million yuan and set up secret funds valued at 9.5 million yuan through abuse of power, according to Zhangjiakou's Qiaodong District People's Court, which heard his case.

The court said the sources for his personal assets of 55 million yuan, which was significantly more than his legal income, could not be identified.