Bai Enpei is a former Chinese politician convicted of corruption.
14 Facts About Bai Enpei
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Bai Enpei was investigated by the party's anti-corruption watchdog in 2014, and eventually convicted on charges of bribery and amassing wealth of unclear origin, and sentenced to death with reprieve in 2016.
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Bai Enpei held the record for the highest recorded sum of corrupt earnings, and the most severe sentence among all officials charged with corruption during the anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping.
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Bai Enpei was born in 1946 in Yuanjiagou village, Qingjian County, Shaanxi Province.
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In 1965, Bai Enpei was admitted into the Northwestern Polytechnical University, studying mechanical automation.
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Bai Enpei would stay at the factory for some 11 years, going from a technician to a vice president, then president and party chief of the factory.
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In September 1983, Bai Enpei became the deputy party secretary of Yan'an; two years later he became party chief.
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In 1987, at the 13th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Bai Enpei became an alternate member of the Central Committee.
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In May 1990, Bai Enpei left his home province, working successively in Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, and Yunnan provinces.
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Bai Enpei served as the party organization head in Inner Mongolia, the deputy party chief, then deputy party chief, Governor, and Party Secretary of Qinghai province.
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Soon following his investigation, it was revealed that Bai Enpei had business dealings with Sichuan businessman Liu Han, Liu Wei, and Jiang Jiemin, former head of the China National Petroleum who was a Central Committee member.
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Bai Enpei reportedly took kickbacks during the privatization of state-owned local mining companies.
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On October 9,2016, Bai Enpei was sentenced by the Anyang Intermediate People's Court to death sentence with reprieve without commutation or parole when the sentence was automatically reduced to life imprisonment; he was convicted of taking bribes worth some 246.7 million yuan and amassing wealth of unclear origin, boasting the largest recorded sum of any official charged with corruption during the term of Xi Jinping.
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Bai Enpei's sentence was the toughest yet doled out in the anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping.