Under President Xi Jinping
the country has waged a much-publicised anti-corruption campaign.
Corruption cases involving
more than £300,000 or three million yuan could incur the death penalty in
future, Chinese authorities have ruled.
Xinhua News Agency reports
that, the Supreme People’s Court and China’s national prosecuting body said
that bribes or embezzlement totalling three million yuan or more will be
considered ‘extraordinarily huge value’ and could incur the death penalty, or a
life sentence without parole.
Such offenders will be
eligible for the death penalty if their actions had ‘extremely severe
circumstances and caused extremely vile social impact and extremely significant
losses to the state’s and the people’s interests’,
Former railways minister
Liu Zhijun was given a suspended death penalty in 2013 for taking bribes worth
60 million yuan, which was commuted to life imprisonment last year.
Any acceptance of gifts by
government employees that might affect the performance of their public duties
will be regarded as bribery even if there was no specific request by the briber
at the time, it said.
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