(XINHUA)

Zhang Jingli, former deputy director of the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), has been charged with bribery, making false accusations and illegal operations. He was on trial in Beijing on November 20, 2011. Zhang pled guilty to some of the accusations at the court.

Zhang, 56, is accused of accepting bribes of more than 1.18 million yuan ($185,732) and gaining illicit income of more than 23 million yuan ($3.6 million) through illegally selling books he wrote from 2005 to 2010. He was also accused of asking others to make false accusations against other officials by sending more than 1,300 letters to the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.