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Former official sentenced to life imprisonment for graft

Xinhua, May 3, 2017 Adjust font size:

Yang Zhenchao, former vice governor of east China's Anhui Province, was given a life sentence for accepting bribes, graft and abuse of power on Wednesday.

Yang was also deprived of his political rights for life and all his personal assets were confiscated, according to a statement from the First Intermediate People's Court of Shanghai. Endi