Former official sentenced to death in China for $324 million corruption case

A Chinese court on Monday sentenced Yang Youlin, a former senior local official in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing, to death ​over corruption while also convicting him of abuse of power and ‌money laundering among other charges, a court statement showed, Report informs via Reuters.

Yang illegally accepted money and property totalling over 2.2 billion yuan ($324 million) while holding various government posts from 1993 to 2023, ​the Changzhou Intermediate People's Court in Jiangsu province said in a ​statement about its first-instance judgment on Monday.