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China executes former Inner Mongolia official

China on Tuesday executed Li Jianping, a former official in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, who was convicted of corruption, bribery, misappropriation of public funds and collusion with a criminal syndicate. The death sentence of Li, former secretary of the Communist Party of China working committee in the Hohhot economic and technological development zone, was initially handed down in September 2022 and upheld on appeal in August this year. Despite holding relatively modest local government positions, he was found guilty of embezzling over 1.4 billion yuan ($200 million) from State-owned enterprises, receiving gifts and money totaling more than 577 million yuan, and misappropriating over 1 billion yuan in public funds. In addition, Li was convicted of enabling illegal operations by a criminal syndicate under his watch.

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