A Central Discipline Inspection commission and the...

A Central Discipline Inspection commission and the Supervision Ministry said that from September 2000, the Xiamen, Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and Putian Intermediate People's Courts tried 84 defendants involved in 25 cases. Fourteen people were sentenced to death for accepting bribes in the smuggling cases. Of these convicts, Yang Qianxian, a Customs Director, had accepted 1.4m yuan,. Zhang Rushun, Deputy Director of the Public Security Department, and Lan Fu, Vice Mayor of Xiamen City accepted 5m yuan.