Former Nanjing Official Sentenced to Death in One of China’s Biggest Bribery Cases
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Yang Youlin accepted more than 2.21 billion yuan in bribes from 1993 to 2023, according to the court. Photo: CCTV
A former Chinese economic-development official was sentenced to death Monday for accepting more than 2.2 billion yuan ($324 million) in bribes, placing him among the most corrupt bureaucrats in modern Chinese history.
The Changzhou Intermediate People’s Court in Jiangsu province sentenced Yang Youlin, former executive deputy director of the Nanjing Economic and Technological Development Zone, to death after finding he accepted 2.21 billion yuan in illicit payments over three decades, from 1993 to 2023.
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