Politics · China · 12 hrs ago
Former Chinese securities regulator official gets suspended death sentence
A Chinese court sentenced former securities regulator official Wang Huimin to death with a two-year reprieve on Oct.
27.
The court found that he took more than 436 million yuan in bribes in exchange for favours to companies and individuals, including help with business and fundraising.
Wang held official posts in Xinjiang and at the national securities regulator, though accounts differ on the dates of his service.
The court said the scale of the bribes and harm caused warranted the death penalty, but cited factors including his disclosure of some information and the recovery of some illicit gains in granting a reprieve.
In Chinese law, a two-year reprieve is typically followed by a commutation to life imprisonment.
The court said Wang will spend the rest of his life in prison, with no sentence reduction or parole, and ordered his personal property confiscated.
Wang Huimin, a former official at China’s securities regulator, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve over bribery.
A court said he accepted more than 436 million yuan in bribes.
The court said the bribes and the harm caused warranted the death penalty.
The reprieve was granted in part because some offences were attempted, Wang disclosed some previously unknown facts and some illicit gains were recovered.
The court ordered the confiscation of his personal property and said he would have no possibility of sentence reduction or parole.
- Who
- Wang Huimin, a former official at the China Securities Regulatory Commission.
- What
- He received a death sentence with a two-year reprieve over bribery. The court also confiscated his personal property and barred sentence reduction or parole.
- When
- October 27, 2026.
- Where
- Chengdu Intermediate People’s Court, China.
- Why
- The court found that Wang accepted more than 436 million yuan in bribes and said the amount and harm warranted the death penalty.
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Wang held official posts in Xinjiang and at the national securities regulator, according to Xinhua.
A Chinese court sentenced Wang to death with a two-year reprieve.
- Bribes
- More than 436 million yuan
- Reprieve
- Two years
- Court
- Chengdu Intermediate People’s Court
- CSRC party committee role
- 2014–2019
- Official posts cited by Xinhua
- 1998–2025
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What people are saying
The amount involved was especially large and caused especially heavy losses to the interests of the state and the people, warranting the death penalty