BEIJING -- Zhang Tianfeng, former deputy chief of China's State Tobacco Monopoly Administration, has been indicted on charges of accepting bribes, according to the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Tuesday.

Zhang is accused of taking advantage of his various posts in the tobacco system to seek benefits for others, while illegally accepting extremely huge amounts of money and gifts in return.

The case has been filed by the People's Procuratorate of Ganzhou City, East China's Jiangxi province, to the city's intermediate people's court.