Yang Youlin, wey serve for different positions for Nanjing city from 1993 to 2023, don land for serious wahala. Court don give am death sentence for corruption, embezzlement, abuse of power, and money laundering. The 69-year-old man collect plenty money and gifts for helping people get engineering contracts, land transfer, and financing, according to state media.
Na President Xi Jinping anti-corruption crackdown wey catch Yang. The campaign don cut through military and high-level banking, among other sectors. Yang spend most of im career working on economic and technological development for Nanjing. The court for Changzhou city say im offences be of extremely serious nature and cause exceptionally heavy losses to the interests of the state and the people.
Since President Xi come power, e don launch waves of anti-corruption drives. But critics say the campaign sometimes dey used to purge political rivals. Death sentence for white collar crimes no common, but sometimes dem dey give am, especially when the amount pass 1 billion yuan. For example, Li Jianping, former Inner Mongolia official, dem execute am for 2024 for embezzling and taking bribe wey total more than 3 billion yuan.
For many other cases, court dey give jail term or suspended death sentence, wey later change to life imprisonment. Court also fit reduce sentence if the convicted person report other offenders. Yang try to provide similar assistance to authorities, but the Changzhou court say im offences too grave, so im assistance no enough to warrant more lenient punishment. Yang plead guilty and express remorse in im final statement, according to state media.
