Fifth Official Linked to Former Security Vice Minister Convicted for Graft

What’s new: Former senior Jiangsu province justice official Wang Like has been handed a suspended death sentence for accepting and offering bribes, covering up and condoning a criminal syndicate, and forging identity documents, state media reported.

Wang accepted more than 440 million yuan ($64 million) in bribes between 1993 and 2020 while serving in various government posts including Communist Party chief of the political and legal committee and vice governor in East China’s Jiangsu. He was also deputy public security director in the northeastern province of Liaoning.