Zhou Yongkang, a former member of the Politburo Standing Committee, the Communist Party's supreme decision-making body, has been the highest ranking Party cadre to be a target of a corruption investigation.The Party's graft fighters announced the investigation into Zhou on July 29, after having rounded up a number of his allies in Sichuan province and China National Petroleum
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Police stand guard outside the Intermediate People’s Court after disgraced politician Bo Xilai arrived for his sentencing in Jinan, Shandong province on September 22, 2013.
Does the Punishment Fit the Corruption?
Revised Criminal Law Could Lead to More Consistent Sentencing
October 27, 2015
By Li Zizhen, a Caixin staff reporter. This article was first published by Caixin.
After Chen Bokui, the deputy head of a government advisory body in the central province of Hubei, was convicted of taking 2.8 million yuan in bribes by a court in the eastern province of Fujian in April, he received a somewhat stiff sentence 17 years in prison considering the amount involved and the punishments other officials who have taken less money have received.