You Fuck up in China, You get Fucked Up!

[babsbunny]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article2753379.ece

Disgraced Chinese food regulator is executed
By Clifford Coonan in Beijing
Published: 11 July 2007
When it came, retribution was swift and unyielding - after all, a whole country's food and drugs' exports were at stake.

Zheng Xiaoyu, formerly the man responsible for ensuring the safety of China's foodstuffs and pharmaceuticals, was executed yesterday for corruption.

The Supreme People's Court approved the death sentence for Zheng, 62, the former head of the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), for taking kickbacks worth 6.5 million yuan (£420,000) from drug companies to ensure he would approve medicines that should have been taken off the market.

The execution stands as a warning after a series of health scandals have damaged the "Made in China" brand at home and abroad.

"Zheng Xiaoyu's grave irresponsibility in pharmaceutical safety inspection and failure to carry out conscientiously his duties seriously damaged the interests of the state and people," the court said in a statement. The case went to China's top court under new rules that allow judges there to overrule death sentences from lower courts. The new regulations have seen the number of death sentences in China fall, but this time the court was swift in its decision. "The social impact has been utterly malign," the court said of Zheng's actions, adding that even though he had confessed and returned the bribes, this was not enough to warrant mercy.

[cassiepriam]

1. In American you become a billionaire and famous for being corrupt.

And run for office and become a politician.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

11. We have the best system in the world, what's wrong with them

Eyerackies... they must not know what we are trying to do to, scratch that, do FOR them.

[cassiepriam]

12. Yep. Too bad we have to destroy them to bring them into the fold.

[kikiek]

2. Personally I don't know what real evidence was against him. He was tried, convicted, and

executed very quickly. Because it is China I think he could very well have been a scapegoat. His "confession" was probably tortured out of him.

[Old and In the Way]

6. Here, they'd commute his sentence......over there, it's "dead men tell no tales"

But,the next head of that agency is probably going to think twice before he starts filling his pockets for political favors to Big Pharma.

[kikiek]

8. Yah or even take the job. He could have been the patsy for someone up higher.

I agree though their creed is "dead me tell no tales". Bush would love to be able to do that.

[Old and In the Way]

13. China is trying to rein in the unchecked capitalism that's taken over the past 10 years.

Just recently read an article where the national government is calling on the Chinese people to watchdog the provincial/local governments. The federal government decentralized and allow the provinces/cities to cut their own deals with corporations. It worked too well. Now there are lots of looking the other way and allowing environmental abuse, etc.

So I think this might be the federal governments way of sending a warning to the provincial/city governments and reaffirming to their citizens that abuse will be addressed.

Of course, corruption is probably happening at higher levels than this bureaucrat, so there might have been additional motivation to make this guy an example.

[kikiek]

14. That is interesting having citizens be the watchdogs, and in China no less.

[ProudDad]

capital punishment

is still wrong, Always.

It doesn't matter who does it or why...

[firefox_fan]

3. 62. The bastard had a good run.

[BootinUp]

4. I guess the

old Republican trick of "I asked God for forgiveness" doesn't work there.

[TwilightGardener]

10. In China, they arrange it so that you get to ask God personally...very helpful!

[brentspeak]

5. Not to worry: China ain't going to stop producing dangerous food & drugs any century soon

[Nucular Terrorist]

7. Chinese executions = Neocon's wet dream

The people in power probably knew what he was doing, and simply feed him to the lions when it came out to the public.

I'm positive the neocons would have done the same thing to the guilty parties participating in the Abu Ghraib scandal to avoid criticism of their "compassionate conservative" policies.

[Raine]

9. Wonder how some of the scum here

would react if they had that hanging over their heads. I'm not saying executing them is right, I just would like to see some of the corporate thieves here have punishment for their thievery instead of getting rich.