Xinhua News Agency reported that former Vice President of the Supreme People's Court of China Shen Deyong pleaded guilty at a trial on May 11 in a court in Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province.
At the trial, Mr. Tham admitted and expressed remorse for accepting bribes of more than 64.56 million yuan (more than 217 billion VND) during the period 1995-2022.
Mr. Tham Duc Vinh at the trial on May 11
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Mr. Shen (69 years old) was trained in criminal law and held important positions in the Chinese Communist Party and judicial system for nearly four decades.
After gradually rising through the ranks of his home province of Jiangxi's judicial system, Mr. Shen became deputy chief justice of the Supreme People's Court in 1998, according to the South China Morning Post .
In 2006, Mr. Shen served as Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and rose to prominence when he handled the corruption case of former Shanghai Party Secretary and Mayor Chen Liangyu.
Mr. Shen became Permanent Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court in 2008. During this period, he worked with Hong Kong officials on legal cooperation between the mainland and the special administrative region.
In 2018, he became a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the country's top political advisory body, and was elected director of the CPPCC's Social and Legal Affairs Committee.
Mr. Shen has been under investigation since March 2022 for suspected serious violations of the law and discipline. He was later expelled from the Party, stripped of all his positions, and arrested on suspicion of accepting bribes.
Mr. Tham was accused of abusing his position and power to receive bribes directly or through his wife and children in exchange for helping to fix cases and get positions for some people and awarding construction contracts. The court announced on May 11 that it would issue a verdict at a later date.
Mr. Shen is among the highest-ranking officials to fall since President Xi Jinping shifted the focus of his anti-corruption campaign to law enforcement and security forces in 2021. Two former public security ministers, Sun Lijun and Fu Zhenghua, have both been jailed for corruption during that period. Police chiefs in major cities like Chongqing and Shanghai, as well as intelligence and judicial officials, have also fallen.
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