CHONGQING, Jan. 28 (Chinese media) -- He Mingsheng, former
vice director of the Economic Commission of Fuling district, Chongqing
Municipality, was sentenced to a jail term of 19 years, according to local
authorities on Wednesday.
He, who fled after gambling away more than 900,000
yuan (132,000 U.S. dollars), was charged for embezzlement and taking bribes.
The Fuling district procuratorate found that from
2005 to 2007, he took away 460,000 yuan of public funds, embezzled another
260,000 yuan and took bribes of 90,000 yuan.
Authorities with the procuratorate said that He was
fond of gambling with high stakes at night and often slept at daytime during his
work.
On September 20, 2007, he asked for a leave from the
working unit, citing business trip, before his cell phone was turned off in the
following days. Several days later, someone went to the commission, saying that
He owed him money.
He Mingsheng was nabbed in December 2007 in Shaoxing,
east China's Zhejiang Province.
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