The latest corruption scandal involving a Chinese Communist Party official has caused a stir on Chinese social media—because of the light sentence he received for the enormous amount of money he had pocketed.
Zhao Wanchou, 57, former chief of the Coal Industry Bureau in Jincheng, a city in northern China’s Shanxi Province, was given a 19-year sentence and a fine of 3 million yuan (about $473,600) by the Shanxi Province Higher People’s Court, according to a report by Shanghai-based state-run newspaper The Paper on May 13.
