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SHANDONG

Ex-Liaoning police chief pleads guilty to charges

A former police chief of Liaoning province was tried on Thursday for helping criminals escape punishment and taking bribes totaling 546 million yuan ($81.4 million), a local court said. Prosecutors said Li Wenxi also abused his power to help people apply for business licenses and mining rights, according to a statement released by the Intermediate People's Court of Tai'an city, Shandong province. Li pleaded guilty at the trial. The court decided to deliver its ruling at a later date. Li, 72, served as the head of the Liaoning Public Security Bureau and vice-chairman of the Liaoning Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference between 2004 and 2021.

TIBET

Former vice-chairman expelled from Party

Zhang Yongze, former vice-chairman of the Tibet autonomous region, has been expelled from the Communist Party of China and dismissed from public office for serious violations of discipline and law, according to the country's top anti-graft bodies. Zhang, 53, failed to fully execute the central government's strategy on the administration of Tibet and traded public post appointments for money, the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission said in a statement on Thursday. He also interfered with the environmental impact assessments of construction projects for personal gain and accepted huge bribes, it said.