A Chinese court on Sunday handed a former top provincial official a suspended death sentence for bribery, it said, the latest senior politician to be jailed in a high-profile, anti-corruption campaign.
Bai Enpei, the former top Communist Party official in the south-western province of Yunnan was handed the sentence - usually commuted to life in prison - for accepting bribes worth more than 240 million yuan ($36 million) a court in Anyang city said on an official microblog.
Graft has become endemic in China and President Xi Jinping launched a much-publicised drive against corruption after he came to power in 2012, vowing to target both high-level "tigers" and low-ranking "flies".
But analysts say China has failed to implement institutional safeguards, such as an independent judiciary and free media, leaving anti-graft campaigns subject to the influence of politics.
China's ruling Communist Party promoted Bai to the top-ranking post in Yunnan from 2001 to 2011, before putting him under investigation in 2014. The court said he had accepted bribes in exchange for giving out rights to real estate and mining projects, and political promotions.
The sentence came as two other formerly high-ranking officials were charged with corruption, the official Xinhua news agency said Sunday.
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