Authorities uncovered 11 million yuan ($1.795 million) in new, sequentially numbered 100-yuan bills at the home and office of a former Sichuan police captain. The true value of bribes received may have been over three times as much, according to the Beijing News.
Li Rongbiao, former vice captain of the provincial public security team, admitted to taking 31 million yuan in bribes after investigators seized the bundles of cash. Police did not reveal where the rest of the money is, or if it has already been spent.
Shi Jun, the current provincial police chief, said Li abused his power to accept bribes from companies producing explosives.
“He committed crimes in the fields that he was assigned to supervise and the sum of bribes was huge. It was very serious,” one official said.
Li has been formally charged, the provincial publicity department said Tuesday, but would not give further details on the case.
In January, another top Sichuan cop, a former Chengdu district police chief, was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison for corruption. Wu Tao was convicted of taking bribes, illegal possession of a firearm, and identity document forgery after trying to flee with four passports as investigators closed in on him.
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