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15:07, 13-Oct-2017
One of China's most-wanted economic fugitive sentenced to 8 years in prison
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One of China's most-wanted corruption suspect, Yang Xiuzhu, was sentenced to eight years in prison, a court in east China's Zhejiang Province ruled on Friday.
Yang, former deputy mayor of Wenzhou, a city in the province, who had been on the run for the last 13 years, turned herself in last November.
The Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court said that Yang abused her position as an official to embezzle public funds amounting to over 19 million yuan (about 2.88 million US dollars) during 1996-1999, and receive bribes totaling 26.4 million yuan (about 3.92 million US dollars). She fled China in 2003.
In April 2015, China published a list of 100 of its most-wanted corruption suspects who had been targeted with an Interpol red notice, many living in the United States, Canada and Australia.
Yang was top of that list and is the 37th fugitive to return so far, according to the country's anti-corruption authorities.
She went on trial in July and confessed to corruption and bribery charges.