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16:00, 28-Apr-2017
Former Shanghai vice mayor sentenced to 17 years for corruption, bribery
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Ai Junbao, the former vice mayor and CPC Standing Committee member of Shanghai, has been sentenced to 17 years in prison and fined 5.8 million yuan (840,000 US dollars) for corruption and bribery, the latest official to fall prey to China's on-going massive anti-corruption drive.
The court in Zhangzhou, in southern China's Fujian Province, handed him a 15-year jail sentence for accepting bribes worth over 40 million yuan (5.8 million US dollars) between 2000 and 2014. It did not say what the bribes were for. Ai also had five million yuan of his personal property confiscated.
On charges of embezzling public property of more than 7.51 million yuan (1.1 million US dollars) from 2001 to 2009, Ai was sentenced to 10 years in jail and had 80, 000 yuan of his personal property confiscated.
The court however reduced the total sentence to 17 years in recognition of Ai collaborating with the prosecution.