(CFP)

Zhang Chunjiang, former Deputy General Manager of China Mobile Ltd., has given up an appeal to a higher court for a suspended death sentence with a two-year reprieve for taking bribes handed down by the Intermediate People's Court of Cangzhou, Hebei Province, in late July. The court also ordered the confiscation of Zhang's personal assets and stripped him of his political rights.

Zhang, 53, took 7.46 million yuan ($1.15 million) in bribes from companies and individuals between 1994 and 2009 when he served as deputy director of Liaoning Provincial Postal Administration, general manager of China Netcom Group Corp. Ltd. and Party chief as well as deputy general manager of China Mobile.