Former Minister of Railways Liu Zhijun has been charged with bribery and abuse of power, authorities said on April 10.

According to the indictment issued by the Second Branch of the Beijing People's Procuratorate, as a state functionary, Liu sought to benefit other parties by taking advantage of his position and accepted considerable amounts of financial incentives for doing so.

Liu, 60, became minister of railways in March 2003 and was sacked in February 2011.

He is accused of having received bribes worth more than 60 million yuan ($9.68 million), reported Beijing Times.

On April 8, Huang Sheng, a former deputy governor of east China's Shandong Province, stood trial on charges of accepting bribes.

According to the municipal people's procuratorate, from the latter half of 1998 to August 2011, Huang abused his official positions as mayor and Party chief of Dezhou, as well as vice governor of Shandong, to obtain benefits for others in their business operations and promotions.

He accepted bribes worth more than 12.23 million yuan ($1.97 million), prosecutors said.