Ex-Cabinet Minister on Trial in Bribery Case
From Times Wire Reports
The former head of China’s powerful Land and Resources Ministry went on trial for taking bribes, in the country’s highest-level graft scandal since 2001.
Tian Fengshan was fired two years ago for discipline violations, the government said at the time. He is accused of accepting more than $500,000 in bribes between 1995 and 2003, the official New China News Agency said.
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