Yang Duoming, former vice-president of the higher people's court of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, was prosecuted for taking bribes on Wednesday by the Liuzhou Railway Transport Procuratorate in Liuzhou, a city in central Guangxi.

Yang accepted 110,000 yuan (about 13,000 US dollars) in 2000 and changed the original sentence to Wu Changkao, former head of the public security bureau of Yulin City, who was accused of taking bribes and appropriating state assets, the procuratorate said in the indictment.

Yang allegedly accepted a sum of 45,000 yuan (5441 US dollars) from people involved in two cases of economic disputes in 2000 and 2001.

In another case in the second half of 2001, Yang was alleged to accept 30,000 yuan (3627 US dollars) from a judge of his court, surnamed Zhou, to help him obtain a higher post.

The 54-year-old Yang was appointed vice-president of Guangxi Regional Higher People's Court in 1996 and was arrested on February 5, 2005.

Source: Xinhua