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Li Jianping, the death sentence is upheld! The first trial had disclosed that the amount involved in the case exceeded 3 billion

2024-08-27

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On August 27, 2024, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region High People's Court publicly pronounced the second instance verdict on the case of appellant Li Jianping for embezzlement, bribery, misappropriation of public funds, and connivance with a mafia organization.The appeal was dismissed and the death sentence was upheld.And submit it to the Supreme People's Court for approval in accordance with the law.

Earlier reports:

The amount involved exceeds 3 billion yuan

Li Jianping was sentenced to death in the first instance

According to previous reports, in September 2022, the Intermediate People's Court of Xing'an League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, publicly pronounced the first instance verdict on the case of Li Jianping.Li Jianping, whose case involved a sum of over 3 billion yuan, was sentenced to death in the first instance. Li Jianping and other co-defendants in the case were dissatisfied and filed an appeal.

Due to the huge amount of money involved, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission once issued a document stating that the Li Jianping case was called "the largest case in the history of anti-corruption struggle in Inner Mongolia so far." Red Star News reporters noted that according to the court's first-instance trial, Li Jianping used his position as secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Hohhot Economic and Technological Development Zone in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to embezzle more than 1.437 billion yuan of state-owned funds in collusion with others from 2016 to 2018. On average, he embezzled nearly 2 million yuan every day.