A court in eastern China has sentenced a former city official to death for taking bribes worth more than 2.2bn yuan ($325 million) over three decades.

The punishment given to Yang Youlin is one of the harshest handed down in a corruption case in China in recent years.

Un tribunal de China condenó a muerte al exfuncionario Yang Youlin por corrupción, sobornos por más de 308 millones de dólares y otros delitos económicos en Jiangsu.

A Chinese court on Monday sentenced former Nanjing economic development official Yang Youlin to death after finding him guilty of accepting bribes worth more than 2.21 billion…