But the death sentence of Sun Lijun, a former vice minister of public security, will be commuted to life imprisonment after two years, according to the court statement.
People's Court in the city of Changchun in Jilin province has hit a former top security official, Sun Lijun with a suspended death sentence for bribery and other crimes.
But the death sentence of Sun Lijun, a former vice minister of public security, will be commuted to life imprisonment after two years, according to the court statement.
Sun, 53 was found guilty of corruption, manipulating the stock market and illegally owning two firearms. Sun has been deprived of political rights for life while all his personal property has been confiscated.
According to Rthk, Sun was found to have abused his power in a number of influential positions between 2001 and 2020. He pleaded guilty in July to accepting more than 646 million yuan in bribes.
Mr Sun was also deprived of his political rights for life, and all his personal assets were confiscated, said the Intermediate People’s Court of Changchun in northeast China’s Jilin Province.
The court established that Sun received money and valuables totalling more than ¥646 million yuan ($92.39 million) by taking advantage of various positions he held between 2001 and April 2020.
Sun was found to have manipulated stock trading in the first half of 2018, helping some other people avoid a loss of ¥145 million and illegally possessed two guns, the court added.
The sum of bribes Mr Sun had taken was especially huge, and his crimes caused a heavy loss to the interests of the state and people, said the court.
It added that the circumstance of his crime in manipulating the stock market was particularly serious and that illegally possessing firearms was serious.
The court said Mr Sun was granted a lenient sentence, considering that he had provided investigators with clues to other major cases, contributing to a major meritorious service for the investigation.
It explained that he had also confessed to all of his crimes, including some acts of bribe-taking that investigators were not initially aware of. It added that he had shown repentance and cooperated in returning his illegal gains.
After the two-year reprieve for his death sentence, Mr Sun’s sentence can be commuted to life in prison in accordance with the law, but no further reduction or parole would be given to him, the court said.
Former justice minister Fu Zhenghua received similar penalties on Thursday. He was said to be part of Sun's "political gang”.