On the morning of June 11, the Intermediate People's Court of Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province publicly sentenced Wu Xiaodong, the former deputy mayor of Dongtai City, for accepting bribes.

Wu Xiaodong's bribery amount was determined by the court to be 1.33 million yuan, and he was sentenced to six years in prison at the first instance and fined 400,000 yuan.

Wu Xiaodong, 47 years old this year, is a cadre who grew up locally.Relevant materials show that Wu Xiaodong graduated from Nanjing Power College. He worked as a teacher in his early years. He started his official career as the deputy secretary of the Dongtai Youth League Committee and served as a township party and government leader for a long time.

September 2012-November 2016, Wu Xiaodong successively served as deputy director of Dongtai Coastal Economic Zone Management Committee, deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee, concurrently secretary of the Party Committee of Kaigang Town, director of Dongtai Coastal Economic Zone Management Committee, and party working committeesecretary.

In May 2016, Wu Xiaodong was promoted to be a member of the party group and deputy mayor of the Dongtai Municipal Government, and once also served as the secretary of the party working committee of the East China Sea Coastal Economic Zone.One year later, on May 26, 2017, Wu Xiaodong was investigated by the organization for suspected serious violations of discipline.

Previously, the case had been heard twice on March 5 and April 18-19. The Paper noticed that Wu Xiaodong overturned all the guilty confessions made during the investigation during the trial, and his defense lawyer also claimed that the witness testimony wasobtained illegally.

After investigation, the court found that Wu Xiaodong's confession and witness testimony were collected according to law after the investigation agency filed the case, and the investigators did not use threatening language.In the audio and video recordings of the summons and interrogation during criminal detention, no accusations, inducements, or threats were found by the investigators, and the transcripts were recorded truthfully according to Wu Xiaodong's account.

According to the court's findings, from 2010 to 2016, Wu Xiaodong took advantage of his position to seek benefits for relevant units and individuals, and successively received money and materials equivalent to RMB 1.333 million.

The Intermediate People's Court of Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province held that Wu Xiaodong constituted the crime of accepting bribes and was sentenced to six years in prison and a fine of RMB 400,000.The property obtained by Wu Xiaodong's bribery crime was recovered and turned over to the state treasury.