China Sentences Tang Renjian, Ex-Agriculture Minister To Death
October 1, 2025
12:19 am
China’s Ex-Agriculture Minister, Tang Renjian received a suspended death sentence for taking $38m in bribes amid Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign.
China has sentenced former agriculture minister Tang Renjian to death with a two-year reprieve after convicting him of accepting massive bribes, a court in the country’s northeast announced on Sunday.
The People’s Court of Changchun in Jilin province said Tang received cash and property worth more than 268 million yuan (about $38 million) between 2007 and 2024. Judges ruled that the scale of corruption had caused “particularly severe losses to the interests of the state and the people” and therefore …
