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China official on trial for selling coveted car plates
Published Tue, May 26, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Beijing
A FORMER head of Beijing's traffic management office went on trial for handing out coveted car number plates to businesspeople in return for nearly US$4 million in bribes, a court said.
Song Jianguo allegedly accepted more than 23.9 million yuan (S$5.2 million) in bribes over the decade from 2004 to last year, the Beijing No 1 Intermediate People's Court said in a statement.
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