China executed a former official from Inner Mongolia over corruption charges totaling about 3 billion yuan ($412 million), a rare use of the death penalty for graft that comes with President Xi Jinping’s sweeping campaign to cleanse the Communist Party intensifying.
Li Jianping, the former party chief of an economic development zone in Hohhot city, was first sentenced to death in September 2022 for taking bribes, misusing public funds and colluding with a criminal syndicate. He lost an appeal in August and his sentence was then approved by the Supreme People’s Court.
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