BEIJING: Chinese authorities have found 200 million yuan (1 billion baht) in the home of an energy official, news reports said yesterday.
It is the country's largest-ever cash seizure,the Supreme People's Procuratorate Anti-corruption bureau said on Friday online.
The money unearthed at the home of coal bureau deputy chief Wei Pengyuan in a probe first revealed in May.
If denominated in 100-yuan notes, it would pile 200 metres high and weigh more than three tonnes,Huashang Bao reported,quoted the bureau's chief Xu Jinhui.