31 top officials convicted of taking bribes
By Zhang Yi | China Daily | Updated: 2014-10-15 08:08
Thirty-one senior officials have been found guilty as of Monday of taking bribes since China launched a campaign to clean up government in late 2012, according to court rulings listed by China's anti-graft body.
The average bribe was 14 million yuan ($2.3 million). A wage-earner making 70,000 yuan a year in Beijing would have to work 200 years to make that much money.
The officials took a total of 440 million yuan in bribes. Six of them were ministerial-level officials, and the rest were at or above bureau level.
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