A Chinese court has sentenced a former top railways official to death with a two-year reprieve for taking nearly $8 million in bribes.
The Beijing No. 2 Intermediate Court announced the verdict on Friday against Zhang Shuguang, formerly the deputy chief engineer for the now-defunct Railway Ministry. The court also confiscated all of Zhang’s personal assets.
Zhang’s conviction comes more than a year after the former railway minister, Liu Zhijun, was convicted of corruption and received a suspended death sentence.