Overview
- Tang was found guilty by the Xiamen Intermediate People’s Court of taking more than 137 million yuan in bribes between 2006 and 2022 to facilitate IPOs, land buybacks, bank loans and favorable case handling.
- Judges ordered the confiscation of all his personal property and stripped him of political rights for life, according to state media reports.
- The court cited his confession, remorse, guilty plea and cooperation as mitigating factors that spared him a death sentence.
- Tang, 64, served as justice minister from 2020 to 2023 after senior posts in Zhejiang and a term as Liaoning governor, and he was investigated in April 2024 before being expelled from the Communist Party later that year.
- The decision lands during a renewed round of anti-graft actions, with probes recently announced into top general Zhang Youxia and Emergency Management Minister Wang Xiangxi.