Ex-Provincial Official Gets Life for Causing ‘Significant Loss’ to Public Assets and Bribery

What’s new: A former vice chairman of the Hunan provincial political advisory body has been sentenced to life in prison for taking 81.4 million yuan ($11.2 million) in bribes and causing “significant loss” to public assets, state media reported.

Yi Pengfei, 61, procured the bribes from 2003 through 2023 by exploiting his official positions to help others win project contracts, in business operations and getting promotions, a court in Liuzhou, South China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, announced Monday, according to a state-run Xinhua News Agency report.