Former senior Xizang legislator given 13-year sentence for bribery

The Intermediate People's Court of Chengdu in Southwest China's Sichuan province sentenced Ji Guogang, a former senior legislator of the Xizang autonomous region, to a 13-year prison term on Wednesday after convicting him of multiple bribery charges. Ji, who served as the former deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Xizang Autonomous Regional People's Congress, was fined 3 million yuan. He once worked at Fixed Assets Investment Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, the Development and Reform Commission of the Xizang Autonomous Region, and as chairman of the Xizang Development Investment Group Co Ltd. Additionally, from 2016 to 2021, while serving as the president and legal representative of the Xizang Development Investment Group, he engaged in favoritism, abuse of power and has caused particularly significant losses to State interests. The Intermediate People's Court of Chengdu held that Ji's actions constituted bribery and abuse of power in a state-owned company.