XPost from *reality*- Ex China nuclear power boss given life sentence - for taking bribes

[jpak]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/18/AR2010111807496.html

BEIJING -- Chinese state media say the former head of the country's nuclear power program has been sentenced to life in prison for corruption.

The official Xinhua News Agency says a Beijing court convicted Kang Rixin on Friday on charges of taking bribes and abusing his position to enrich others. Kang was fired last year from his job as general manager of China National Nuclear Corp., the biggest owner of nuclear power plants in China.

No other details were given.

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[jpak]

1. kicking for *reality*

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[kristopher]

2. K&R

[joshcryer]

3. Ever wronder why you have 0 recs on posts like this?

Think about it.

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[kristopher]

5. It has recs but the tally is still below zero - why is that do you suppose?

[joshcryer]

7. If you think there's some conspiracy...

...feel free to name names and summarily get your posts deleted for violating DUs rules.

Unless you have evidence for such, in which case you should report that evidence to the mods immediately.

The new DU doesn't take kindly to industry impostors.

[kristopher]

6. Some additional insight

http://www.domain-b.com/industry/power/20101120_life_sentence.html

...Interestingly, when Kang was fired from his job last year, the Chinese government had accused him of taking bribes totalling 1.8 billion yuan, the equivalent of $260 million.

Although the Chinese government has never disclosed which companies had bribed him, nor has the court named any foreign nuclear firms, Kang is reported to have taken kickbacks from French nuclear power giant Areva for a contract in China's southern Guangdong province.

In November 2007, Areva bagged an order worth €8 billion ($11.9 billion) to supply two of the third-generation EPR nuclear reactors to be built in Taishan in Guangdong province. It seems utterly implausible that Areva would offer a bribe of a measly $994,000 for an $11.9-billion order.

Under Chinese laws, accepting bribes invites the death penalty and the Chinese government has, of late, been strictly enforcing the death penalty for bribery.