Former Power Plant Head Sentenced for BriberyZhao Hubin, former director of Beilun Power Plant in east China's Zhejiang Province was sentenced to 11 years in jail for bribery Thursday, December 7.While he was the director of the Beilun Power Plant, Zhao accepted a total of US$20,000 worth of bribes in 1996 and 1997 from a Hong Kong businessman. Zhao offered the businessman confidential information about other competitors in the public bidding for a second-phase construction project of the power plant in 1996. The money was recovered after Zhao confessed his guilt in June this year. Before his arrest, Zhao was the general manager of a State-owned enterprise in the southern town of Shenzhen. The Beilun Power Plant, China's largest coal-burning electric plant with an installed capacity of three million kilowatts, recently completed its second phase of construction. |
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