After years of uncertainty surrounding the case of the mom of Canadian-born Chinese language artiste Wanting Qu, the court docket has lastly reached a verdict.
On Nov 17, the Harbin Metropolis Intermediate Individuals’s Court docket in China introduced that Zhang Mingjie has been discovered responsible of corruption and sentenced to life in jail. This concludes the case 5 years after her first trial which noticed prosecutors asking for the demise penalty.
Zhang was discovered responsible of accepting a bribe and for abusing her standing whereas she was the housing official for the municipal authorities of Harbin, the capital of northern Heilongjiang province.
The court docket detailed on its web site that the case concerned a property deal from 2011 for the rebuilding of farmland owned by the state. Zhang, who neglected the deal on the time, had accepted a money bribe of 5mil yuan (RM3mil) and a stake of 93mil yuan (RM60mil) from the builders.
All of her property have since been seized by the court docket.
“The unlawful revenue and its fruits concerned within the case will probably be confiscated and recovered,” it said.
Throughout her first trial in 2016, Xinhua Information Company had reported that in trade for the bribe, the 66-year-old had allegedly agreed to promote the farmland a lot decrease than its worth available on the market. Zhang has remained in detention ever since.
Artiste Qu, who rose to fame following her debut album Every thing In The World and later because the girlfriend of Vancouver’s earlier mayor Gregor Robertson, has by no means spoken to the press about her mom’s case.
In 2018, she shared her hopes for the case to be over, on Instagram.
“Not a single day passes by that I do not want I may hear her voice, see her face, really feel her heat. Our household remains to be praying and hoping for one of the best,” she wrote.
