2 local officials removed from posts, expelled from Party
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Two local officials have been removed from their posts and expelled from the Communist Party for corruption in north China's Shanxi Province, local authorities announced Tuesday.
Jia Jie, former director of the Housing and Construction Bureau of Yizhou City in Shanxi, received bribes of nearly 1 million yuan (143,500 U.S. dollars) and was in possession of unaccounted property worth 3.4 million yuan (about 52.4 million U.S. dollars), said an official of the municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
Jia was sentenced to 11 years in jail in December 2010.
The other official named Li Zhiqiang, deputy director of Housing and Urban-Rural Development Administration in Baode County in Yizhou, is accused of illegally acquiring property worth more than 28.3 million yuan (about 4.3 million U.S. dollars), through taking bribes, tax evasion and illegal land trades.
Li was handed over to the judicial authorities after being sacked.
