A corrupt official hid gold and jewelry in a strange place

A video clip recently released by China's anti-corruption agency revealed an unusual way for a corrupt Chinese official to hide his illegal gains.

Last April, authorities in eastern Zhejiang province launched a formal investigation into Jiang Xunpo, a retired county-level Zhuzhou city official, who was accused of taking millions in bribes from various corporate executives, which Jiang admitted just a day after the investigation began. .

A subsequent video clip, which was published last Sunday by the Zhejiang Provincial Supervisory Commission on the social networking platform "WeChat", showed footage of officers raiding his luxury home, where they found bags of frozen meat in a large refrigerator, including chicken, duck and fish stuffed with jewelry, in addition to gold bars. Plastic coated.

Lawyers also discovered piles of credit cards and gifts that Jiang had buried under bamboo trees in his garden.

The video said Jiang had "used his power as a way to raise money".

Chinese media reported that the former official received more than one million yuan in gifts from business executives and his subordinates during the Lunar New Year holiday from 1998 to 2018. In 2001, during a business meeting with a paper company in Shanghai, he received Envelope containing $8000 in cash according to the video.

Jiang's wife also accepted the money on his behalf when he was admitted to hospital in 2010 and wielded influence in his name, according to the allegations.

And when her brother's press received public complaints about pollution, she lobbied the relevant authorities to waive environmental penalties.

According to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the country's top anti-corruption body, Jiang was sentenced in January to seven years and six months in prison and fined 500,000 yuan ($69,000) for accepting bribes.

Chinese President Xi Jinping's sweeping anti-corruption campaign has ensnared more than 1.5 million party members over the years, including about 1,100 cadres this year alone, although critics said Xi used the crackdown in part as a cover to purge his political opponents. and strengthening his authority.

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