Former head of religious affairs body indicted for bribery

Cui Maohu, former director of the National Religious Affairs Administration, has been prosecuted for accepting bribes, the Supreme People's Procuratorate said in a statement on Friday.

Following the conclusion of a National Commission of Supervisory probe, Cui's case has been filed by prosecutors of Shenyang People's Procuratorate in Northeast China's Liaoning province to the Shenyang intermediate people's court.

Cui was accused of taking advantage of his positions as the deputy head of the organization department of the Yunnan provincial committee of the Communist Party of China, Party chief of the province's Lijiang city and the deputy governor of Yunnan to seek profits for others and accepting a particularly large sum of money and valuables in return.

The prosecutors informed Cui of his litigation rights, questioned him and listened to the opinions of the defense counsel, the SPP said.

Cui, 58, who also served as the former vice-minister of the United Front Work Department of CPC Central Committee, is a Yunnan native. He spent the majority of his career in the province.

Li Menghan contributed to this story.