Chinese Man Sentenced to Death for Sabotaging Power Supply

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Chinese Man Sentenced to Death for Sabotaging Power Supply BBC Monitoring Newsfile ( August 03, 2001 )

A court in Fujian Province in eastern China has sentenced a man to death on two counts of sabotaging a high-voltage power line, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported on Friday.

The Fujian Provincial Supreme People's Court on Thursday found Sun Huaijun guilty of cutting off a 500,000-volt electricity transfer line that sends power from the Houshi Power Plant in Zhangzhou to Xiamen in December 1999 and in January 2000.

In the two incidents Sun carted away a total of 3.8 km of wire, causing losses of 2.62 million yuan (316,000 dollars), the agency said.

The line had only recently been built and was due to go into operation.

Police arrested Sun in Guangzhou in southern China in March 2000.

"Sabotage of electricity transfer facilities is a serious crime in China. Such criminal activities have been rampant nationwide. In Fujian alone, 364 theft and sabotage cases were reported between 1996 and 2000, causing losses up to 8.07 million yuan," the agency said.

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