Wu Sha, former secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of the Guangzhou Municipal CPC Committee, accepted more than 10 million bribes and was sentenced to ten years in prison in the final trial

[Source: "Southern Magazine" WeChat public number] 2018-07-04 20:11:56

On July 3, the Guangdong Provincial Higher People's Court rendered a final ruling on the appeal of Wu Sha, former member of the Standing Committee of the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee and former secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission, for accepting bribes: the appeal was rejected and the original judgment was upheld.

On December 22, 2017, the Zhuhai Intermediate People's Court sentenced Wu Sha to 10 years in prison and confiscated rmb1 million in property for accepting bribes. After the first-instance judgment was pronounced, Wu Sha appealed.

The Guangdong Provincial High People's Court found in the second instance that between 2001 and 2015, Wu Sha took advantage of his position as a member of the Standing Committee of the Panyu District Committee of Guangzhou City, the director of the Panyu District Public Security Sub-Bureau, the deputy director of the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau, the director of the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau, the standing committee of the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee, the deputy secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, and the secretary of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee, as well as the convenience of his authority and status, to provide assistance and seek benefits for relevant units and individuals in matters such as project undertaking, project cooperation, and case handling. The total amount of property received directly or through their specific related persons from relevant units and individuals amounted to more than RMB11.57 million. After arriving at the case, Wu Sha truthfully confessed to the crimes that the case-handling organs did not grasp and returned all the stolen funds.

The court of second instance held that the facts ascertained in the original judgment were clear, the evidence was credible and sufficient, the conviction was accurate, the sentence was appropriate, and the trial procedures were lawful, and should be upheld.

(Originally titled "Ten Years in Prison!") Wu Sha, former member of the Standing Committee of the Guangzhou Municipal CPC Committee and former secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission, pronounced a verdict in the second-instance trial of the bribery case")