A former egg-seller who went on to broker bribes for China’s railway minister was jailed for 20 years yesterday and fined Rmb2.5bn ($404m) by a Beijing court, ending a case that attracted widespread public attention.
At her trial last year, Ding Yuxin, 59, admitted to paying more than Rmb89m in bribes to officials, including Liu Zhijun, a former railways minister and an early victim of President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign.
Last year Liu was sentenced to death, with a two-year reprieve, for rigging contracts worth about Rmb185bn during his seven-year tenure as railways minister beginning in 2004. His conviction was one of the first of a high-ranking official in Mr Xi’s corruption purge.
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