A former railway official has been charged with taking a huge amount of bribes and will stand trial soon, Beijing's No 2 Intermediate People's Court said on Monday.

Su Shunhu, a former deputy chief of the transport bureau of the then Ministry of Railways - now named China Railway Corp - is charged with accepting bribes of more than 24 million yuan ($3.9 million).

Prosecutors said Su, 59, is suspected of taking bribes from 2003 to 2011. The largest sum, 11.94 million yuan, was from Zhou Yunfu, who owned a trade company in Jiangsu province from 2003 to 2008. Su helped Zhou to transport coal.