China: Official Jailed for 13 Years After Losing Court Appeal in Graft Case
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["Former Senior CCP Official in North China Jailed for Graft" - Xinhua headline]  Shenyang, Feb.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Hefei, 24 September: A Chinese local court has sentenced a former county party chief from the eastern province of Anhui to life imprisonment for taking bribes.
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A Chinese research assistant for The Times served three years in prison on a conviction that sparked outrage.
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A former county treasurer was ordered to prison Tuesday for up to 14 years after stealing county funds and losing them in phony Nigerian investments.
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PRAGUE- Ukrainian citizen Roman Tsyurak, 32, and his compatriot Vasil were sentenced to 13 and 12 years in prison, respectively, for the murder of a Belarussian worker, the Prague Supreme Court ruled in an ...
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A Taiwan appeal court upholds the acquittal of opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou of corruption charges.
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An official once in charge of guarding cultural relics has been sentenced to death in China's biggest antiquities theft case since the start of communist rule in 1949.
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A former official of the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority was sentenced yesterday to nine years in prison and ordered to forfeit $3.6 million for his role in one of the largest fraud schemes to emerge from the reconstruction of Iraq, the Justice Department said yesterday.
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Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada was sentenced to life in prison by an anti-graft court on Wednesday, more than six years after he was ousted from office in an army-backed revolt.
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A Chinese farmer who forged a career in   publishing by claiming he held a Ph.D. from Yale University was   given a 13-year jail term for defrauding a publisher of 590,000   yuan ($74,300), a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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A Chinese woman who stole a baby in a desperate attempt to convince her boyfriend that she had borne a child has been jailed for 18 months, Xinhua news agency said on Thursday.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Yinchuan, 14 December: A former senior regional land official in northwest China has been officially charged with taking millions of yuan in bribes and holding a large amount of suspect property.
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A Chinese court on Friday upheld a guilty verdict against a Hong Kong-based Singapore newspaper reporter who was sentenced to prison for five years for espionage, state media and his family said.
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A jury in Siberia found a Russian scientist guilty Friday of illegally passing documents to China, the latest ruling in a lengthy case in which the defendant was first acquitted, then ordered retried.
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Chung Mong-koo, 68, committed a âclearly criminal act,â the judge said, and will serve three years.
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A man in China's southern city of Guangzhou has been jailed for life for taking funds from a malfunctioning ATM, local media reported on Tuesday.
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BEIJING, Dec. 1 -- The controversial four-year, three-month prison sentence given to a blind legal activist for disrupting traffic and damaging property was upheld by a Chinese court Friday morning and immediately condemned by the activist's attorneys.