Ex-Cabinet Minister on Trial in Bribery Case
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From Times Wire Reports
The former head of China’s powerful Land and Resources Ministry went on trial for taking bribes, in the country’s highest-level graft scandal since 2001.
Tian Fengshan was fired two years ago for discipline violations, the government said at the time. He is accused of accepting more than $500,000 in bribes between 1995 and 2003, the official New China News Agency said.
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