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Former Guangzhou party chief given life sentence

Xinhua, September 30, 2016 Adjust font size:

Wan Qingliang, former secretary of the Communist Party of China Guangzhou City Committee, south China's Guangdong Province, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday for accepting bribes.

Wan has been stripped of his political rights for life, with all his personal property and wealth confiscated, according to the ruling by the Intermediate People's Court of Nanning in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

The court found that Wan sought profits for others by taking advantage of his posts and accepted bribes totalling over 111 million yuan (16.49 million U.S. dollars) from 2000 to 2014.

Wan served as the party chief of Jiaoling County in Jieyang City, and vice governor of Guangdong Province before becoming Guangzhou's party chief in 2011.

He was also an alternate member of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) before an announcement in 2014 that he was under investigation. Endi