A former official from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Thursday on a charge of accepting bribes under the cover of renting his property to a company that he supervised at a price much higher than the market rate.

Ling Jimin had been in charge of supervising the pension program of Fuyu Farm for Returned Overseas Chinese in Jilin province when he worked as the deputy director of the ministry's department of endowment insurance from 2003 to 2011, reported Beijing Youth Daily.

Ling was arrested last July and an investigation showed that he received bribes worth more than 630,000 yuan ($102,000) from the company by renting his property to the company at an exorbitant rate, the report said.

Beijing Secondary Intermediate People's Court upheld the conviction of 10 years imprisonment and rejected Ling's appeal on Thursday.