Wed, 20 Jan 2010
A court in China has sentenced a former senior Supreme Court judge to life in prison after being convicted of taking bribes and other corruption charges.
Huang Songyou, the court's former vice-president, confessed to the charges including accepting nearly 3.9mn yuan (USD 570,000) in bribes while he was deputy head of the Supreme Court, the official Xinhua news agency said Tuesday.
Huang was convicted of embezzling 1.2mn yuan in government funds in 1997 when he was president of a lower-level court in the southern province of Guangdong.
Huang's entire estate also was confiscated under the ruling.
He was the first judicial official of his stature to be tried and convicted on such charges since the Communist Party took power in 1949.
China's Supreme Court, formally known as the Supreme People's Court, is the highest judicial panel in China with a wide range of power, including overseeing lower courts and reviewing death sentences.
Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=116605§ionid=351020404.
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