The former head of the Urban Administration Bureau in Guangzhou’s Tianhe District has been jailed for 5 years for accepting 250,000 yuan in bribes between 2007 and 2012, according to Southern Metropolis Daily.

Zeng Weiyu

The investigation into the dealings of Zeng Weiyu, which began on October 5 last year, is one of numerous recent high profile cases of official corruption. Zeng thinks the sentence was harsh and will appeal.

This is more bad PR for the Urban Administraion Bureau, whose members are known as chengguan. The low-level law enforcers are far from the most popular people in the country. They recently caused outrage after beating a vendor in Guangzhou in front of her daughter.

The head of Huizhou’s Urban Administration Bureau was recently accused of purchasing an “imperial palace” with ill-gotten loot. This is obviously a sensitive issue because media organizations were instructed to downplay it.