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Former senior Jilin official sentenced to 12 years for graft

Xinhua, March 31, 2017 Adjust font size:

Gu Chunli, former vice governor of northeast China's Jilin Province, was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Friday for taking bribes at a court in neighboring Heilongjiang Province.

Personal assets worth 2 million yuan (around 290,000 U.S. dollars) belonging to Gu were confiscated, and his illegal gains shall be recovered and turned over to the state treasury, according to a statement by the Harbin City Intermediate People's Court in Heilongjiang. Endi