Xi Xiaoming was sentenced to imprisonment for corruption. (Photo : Twitter)
Xi Xiaoming, who was being investigated since last year, was finally convicted and imprisoned for taking bribes from individuals and companies. The website of the Second Intermediate People's Court of Tianjin released a statement on their website.
The statement said that Xi was charged for "assisting individuals and organizations with their cases and companies with their entry into the market."
Xi joined the Supreme Court in 1996 and committed various acts of corruption since then. He was tasked to create a newly research group to review China's civil code.
He was investigated for corruption two months later.
A similar case happened last year when another former supreme court vice president was convicted and incarcerated for collecting 3.2 million yuan in bribes.
He also received bribe money amounting to 1.2 million yuan while he was president of a city-level court in southern Guangdong province in 1997.
All of his properties were seized by the Chinese authorities.
Huang Songyou was the first top court official who was convicted of graft. He collected money from various law firms who were seeking for favorable decisions between 2005 and 2008.
State media stated, "As a chief justice, Huang knowingly violated the law by trading power for money and taking a hefty sum of bribes, which has produced a bad impact on the society, and should be punished severely."
Other top officials who were punished were Chen Liangyu, a top communist party official in Shanghai who was involved in stealing pension funds. He was sentenced to serve jail for 18 years.
The former director of the food and drug administration was executed for approving the sale of deadly pharmaceutical products in exchange for bribes.
Many corrupt high-profile and top-ranking Communist Party officials are expected to face investigation. President Xi Jinping called for an all-out campaign against corruption since the start of his term in 2012.
