Yi Pengfei

Yi Pengfei (; born May 1962) is a former Chinese politician who spent his entire career in his home-province Hunan. He was investigated by China's top anti-graft agency in February 2023. Previously he served as vice chairman of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

He was a representative of the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.

Early life and education Yi was born in Yiyang, Hunan, in May 1962. After resuming the college entrance examination, in 1979, he was accepted to Hunan College of Finance and Economics (now Hunan University), where he majored in business economy.

He was chosen as vice chairman of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in January 2018. In July 2023, he was expelled from the CCP and dismissed from public office. In August, he was arrested for suspected bribe taking by the Supreme People's Procuratorate. In October, he was indicted on charges of bribery and abuse of power.

On 25 March 2024, he stood trial at the Intermediate People's Court of Liuzhou on charges of taking bribes and abuse of power. The public prosecutors accused Yi of abusing his multiple positions between 2003 and 2023 in 2023 to seek favor on behalf of certain organizations and individuals to offer help to others in terms of project contracting, business operation and personnel promotion, and accepted money and property worth more than 81.4 million yuan ($11.5 million) in return. He was sentenced to life. He was also deprived of political rights for life, and all of his personal property will be confiscated.