HONG KONG: A former mature Chinese official for any high-profile tiger plus leopard national park was sentenced to life in prison pertaining to accepting bribes of nearly 90 million yuan (US$13. three or more million), a courtroom in the northeastern state of Heilongjiang mentioned on Friday (Aug 5).
Jing Dongwen, the previous deputy director from the Northeast Tiger and Leopard National Park in Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces, has been deprived of politics rights for life and everything his property confiscated, the court said in a statement upon its website.
The announcement marks a rare conviction of the Chinese conservation established.
Jing, an ex deputy director of China’s State Forestry and Grassland Management, “took advantage of their position” from Mar 2000 to June 2013, to illegally accept bribes in areas such as “timber procurement and project contracting”.
“Jing Dongwen as a state functionary, took advantage of his position to seek benefits for others and illegally accepted property, which amounted to a particularly large amount, and his behaviour constituted the particular crime of receiving bribes, ” the court said.
The Northeast Gambling and Leopard Nationwide Park started a pilot operation within January 2017 plus covers an area associated with 14, 000 sq km, according to the federal government.
China is endeavoring to establish more nationwide parks for much better ecological conservation right after lumbering and exploration almost drove the wild Siberian tigers and Amur leopards, prevalent in northeast China, to close to extinction.