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| Former Judge Jailed in China |
| By guardian.co.uk |
| Published: 01/19/2010 |
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A former Chinese supreme court judge was jailed for life after being convicted of embezzlement and receiving nearly £500,000 in bribes. Huang Songyou, the court's former vice-president, is the first judicial official of his stature to be tried and convicted on such charges, part of a continuing Communist party campaign against deep-seated and high-level corruption. Formally known as the supreme people's court, the body is the highest judicial panel in China with wide-ranging powers including overseeing lower courts and reviewing death sentences. The court has 13 members, with its grand justice also sitting on the party's decision-making central committee. Huang's entire property also was confiscated under the ruling, according to the official China News Service. Huang, 52, was accused of taking 3.9m yuan (£349,000) in bribes from a law firm in return for favourable rulings on cases between 2005 and 2008. He was also charged with embezzling 1.2m yuan in government funds while serving as president of a city-level court in southern Guangdong province in 1997. Read More. |
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