China Sentences Official to Death for Corruption

[kerewin21 2]

Yeah he did a bad thing but.... DEATH SENTENCE for corruption????

SHANGHAI, July 6 — For the second time in three months, a former high-ranking official at China’s top food and drug watchdog agency has been sentenced to death for corruption and approving counterfeit drugs, the state-run news media said on Friday.

Cao Wenzhuang, who until 2005 was in charge of drug registration approvals at the State Food and Drug Administration, was accused of accepting more than $300,000 in bribes from two pharmaceutical companies and helping undermine the public’s confidence in an agency that is supposed to be safeguarding the nation’s health.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/07/business...amp;oref=slogin

[Ban Hammer 13,619]

china does take that quite seriously it seems.

[Mel_and_Daniel 1]

Yeah he did a bad thing but.... DEATH SENTENCE for corruption????

SHANGHAI, July 6 — For the second time in three months, a former high-ranking official at China’s top food and drug watchdog agency has been sentenced to death for corruption and approving counterfeit drugs, the state-run news media said on Friday.

Cao Wenzhuang, who until 2005 was in charge of drug registration approvals at the State Food and Drug Administration, was accused of accepting more than $300,000 in bribes from two pharmaceutical companies and helping undermine the public’s confidence in an agency that is supposed to be safeguarding the nation’s health.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/07/business...amp;oref=slogin

I wonder how many ppl were affected by those counterfeit drugs.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Actually, he was sentenced because the US detected (after receiving) contaminants in petfood--and then tested other items exported (such as regular food, toothpaste, ...) rejecting the toxic samples.

Basically a sales-pitch to their biggest export market "we're taking care of the issue" (when in reality it was "you failed--you claimed the US would never detect these, so you die").

[peejay 327]

It only proves the old adage, "The bigger they are...the harder they fall." Sounds like this fat cat is fallin' on a live hand grenade. What you sow is what you reap.