BEIJING -- A former official of a Beijing district has been charged with three counts of crime -- graft, bribe-taking and embezzling public funds, a Beijing court said Wednesday.

Public prosecutors, who have litigated Yan Yongxi, former deputy head of the government of Mentougou District, western Beijing, for the above-mentioned three counts of crime, have placed the indictment against Yan with the Beijing No.1 Intermediate People's Court, according to a court source.

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The exact date of the court trial, however, will be announced later.

The prosecutors allege that between the latter half of 2006 to April 2008, Yan took the advantage of his posts, including serving as deputy government chief of Mentougou District and also chief of the leading group for resettlement in key projects of Mentougou's Xincheng Zone, and collaborated with others in making up three separate cases of land acquisition and forged agreements for relocation compensation so as to defraud the government of about 5.8 million yuan (about US$875,800) in land-use fees.

Between October 2003 to July 2007, Yan, who served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Mentougou District Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Party secretary of the district's Yongding Township, also took cash and properties in bribes worth 6.8 million yuan. In return, he abused his power to pursue benefits on behalf of those who bribed him, the prosecutors alleged.

He was also alleged to embezzle 30 million yuan from public funds and lent it to a company for business development in April 2006.