Reuters, 10/08 13:41 CET
By Michael Martina and Megha Rajagopalan
BEIJING (Reuters) – A Chinese
military court sentenced former senior officer Gu Junshan to death with a
two-year reprieve for corruption, the Defence Ministry said on Monday,
the latest official to fall in President Xi Jinping’s crackdown on graft
in the armed forces.
Xi has made weeding out corruption in the military a top
goal, with serving and retired officers warning that graft is so
pervasive it could undermine China’s ability to wage war.
A former lieutenant general who had been deputy director
of the military’s powerful logistics department, Gu was sentenced for
crimes including bribery, abuse of power and misuse of public funds, the
ministry said in a statement on its website. The reprieve usually means
the death sentence is commuted to life imprisonment after two years’
good behaviour.
Gu was charged in 2014 on suspicion of selling hundreds of military positions.
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