Top City Legislator Pleads Guilty to Taking 94 Million Yuan in Bribes

What’s new: Chen Jiadong, former top legislator of the eastern Chinese city of Xiamen, pleaded guilty Thursday to accepting about 94 million yuan ($13 million) in bribes and other crimes that altogether cost the state more than 190 million yuan, a court said.

The former director of the Standing Committee of the People’s Congress of Xiamen stood trial Thursday in Jiangxi Nanchang Intermediate People’s Court on charges of bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power.