For more news visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.com <br />Follow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevision <br />Add us on Facebook ☛ http://facebook.com/NTDTelevision<br /><br />Two vice mayors in Eastern China have been executed over bribery convictions.<br /><br />Xu Maiyong and Jiang Renjie--from Hangzhou and Suzhou, respectively--were executed Tuesday morning, on orders of the Supreme People's Court.<br /><br />Xu was accused of using his post to garner about $22 million dollars in bribes for property development contracts, on top of other illicit activity. Jiang, too, was accused of taking kickbacks for real estate development projects.<br /><br />Both men had legal appeals rejected.<br /><br />In death they join a handful of other mid-level officials who have been caught for corruption, and turned into examples--though the higher one goes in the Party hierarchy, the rarer such convictions are.<br /><br />China is one of the only countries where people are executed for white collar crimes.
