China’s former Internet Chief, Lu Wei, has pleaded guilty in Court on Friday for amassing Millions of Dollars in bribes after prosecutors accused him of abusing his power in various government posts over 15 years.
The ruling Communist Party’s anti-corruption regulator said in November that Lu, who once headed the powerful Cyberspace Administration of China, was under investigation for serious discipline breaches.
He had since been expelled from the party, paving the way for his prosecution and making him one of a number of senior officials caught up in a sweeping anti-graft campaign under President Xi Jinping.
Prosecutors at an intermediate court in the Zhejiang province city of Ningbo said that between 2002 and 2017, Lu received illicit assets from government units or individuals worth more than 32 million yuan ($4.6 million), the official Xinhua news agency said.
