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Corrupt official on trial
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YU DEHAI, former secretary of Bao'an District Committee of the Communist Party of China, Shenzhen, was put on trial yesterday on corruption charges.
Yu, 55, is accused of accepting more than 1.5 million yuan (US$180,000) in bribes and possessing an unexplained fortune of HK$5 million.
Yu told judges that he had “no objection" to the accusations filed by the prosecutors.
He was arrested by the Guangdong Provincial People's Procuratorate in September 1999 after the Central Disciplinary Committee of the CPC referred a complaint to its Guangdong Provincial branch.
The indictment accuses Yu of accepting huge bribes and illegally protecting the interests of bribers when he was the secretary of the Nanshan District Committee of the CPC between October 1990 and December 1997.
In 1994 he allegedly received 450,000 yuan in total in the form of lucky money from a private real estate contractor over four years. Yu had asked a leader in the construction bureau of the district to offer favourable treatments to the contractor in road project bidding and payment.
In October 1995, Yu allegedly received a flat worth 886,549 yuan from a couple who later won the civil construction project of the district government's office building with Yu's help.
The director of the first Chinese-foreign joint venture in China, Yu was once considered a rising star within the Party and government establishments, reaching the powerful position of the director of the Organization Department of the Shenzhen Municipal Committee of the CPC. He was one of the “Oriental Sons" cited by CCTV for his high-profile attempt to build Nanshan into a “cultural district".
(SD News)
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