Lu Wei, known as ＂Internet Tsar＂, was sentenced to 14 years in bribery

Lu Wei, former deputy minister of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, was sentenced to 14 years in prison by the Ningbo Intermediate People's Court for bribery.(Internet)

(Hangzhou Comprehensive News) The Intermediate People's Court of Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province was publicly pronounced yesterday. Lu Wei, former deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for bribery and fined 3 million yuan (S $ 600,3400);The pursuit of its bribes and the repayment of the state treasury, the insufficient parts continued to recover.

Xinhua News Agency reported that Lu Wei's court stated that he obeyed the judgment and did not appeal.

The court judgment stated that after the trial, Lu Wei used the use of members of the party group, secretary general, deputy president of the Xinhua News Agency from 2002 to 2017, member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, Minister of Propaganda Department, Deputy Mayor of Beijing, Director of the National Internet Information Office.The deputy director of the State Council's Journalism Office, the director of the Office of the Central Network Security and Informatization Leading Group, and the deputy minister of the Central Propaganda Department, and the convenient conditions for the formationIt helps the promotion and work transfer, and directly or through the illegal acceptance of others and obtain the property given by the above units and individuals, a total of more than 32 million yuan.

The Ningbo Intermediate People's Court believes that Lu Wei's behavior constitutes a crime of bribery and the amount is particularly huge.In view of the fact that after he arrived in the case, he took the initiative to explain the facts of the crime of bribery that had not been mastered by the case handling agency, pleaded guilty, and actively refunded the stolen money.

On November 21, 2017, Lu Wei, known as the Chinese Internet Tsar, was announced to be dismissed and became the first official official of the horse after the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.On February 13, 2018, Lu Wei was expelled from party membership and public office. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Disciplinary Inspection Commission even strictly evaluated the guilty of his personal impact and shame to describe his guilty of unsatisfactory and shame, which caused widespread attention.