(Bloomberg) -- A former senior official with China’s central bank took large bribes to help businesspeople, according to a state media documentary on Beijing’s anti-graft efforts.

Fan Yifei, ex-deputy governor at the People’s Bank of China, accepted “massive” amounts of money from company executives to facilitate loans and grant other favors, state broadcaster China Central Television said in a documentary.

“I wanted to be an official and be rich at the same time,” Fan said in the final episode of the four-part series that aired on Tuesday. “I was completely wrong.”

Fan was kicked out of the Communist Party and stripped of his post in June, then charged in September, making him the rare high-ranking central bank official to be swept up by the graft fight in the financial sector. China probed more than 100 financial professionals last year and handed down punishments as severe as the death penalty.

The series is being broadcast as President Xi Jinping deepens his decade-long anti-corruption campaign, especially in resource-rich sectors such as finance.

The documentary said Fan received benefits from executives that included equities through his brother’s company. In one case, Fan helped a businessman secure a mobile banking project in exchange for stocks. Liu ingratiated himself with Fan with perks such as treating him to concerts. 

Liu also paid more than 10 million yuan ($1.4 million) in bribes to Fan’s secretary, according to the documentary. The secretary has also been investigated for corruption, the Communist Party’s anti-corruption agency announced last year.

Neither the documentary nor the graft watchdog have said how much Fan took in bribes.

Sun Guofeng, the former head of the PBOC’s monetary policy department, was also recently accused of graft. He was sentenced to more than 16 years in prison for abusing his power and leaking policy information in exchange for 21 million yuan in bribes, the media outlet Caixin reported in December.

The CCTV documentary series also highlighted corruption in football in China and among local officials, including one who spent $21 billion on vanity projects.

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