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Gang boss stands trial in mob crackdown

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-01-12 23:38
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CHONGQING: An alleged ringleader stood trial on Tuesday on eight charges, including organizing criminal gangs, in southwest China's Chongqing municipality.

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Other seven charges Yue Ning faced included: organizing prostitution, bribery, harboring drug addicts, causing social disturbance, false imprisonment, deliberate destruction of accounting vouchers, and destroying account books.

The trial would last six days in Chongqing's No 5 Intermediate People's Court.

Each of the other 30 defendants related to Yue faced two to eight charges, according to a court spokesman.

Prosecutors accused Yue of organizing criminal gangs since 1998 with four other core members.

"I admit that the charges are basically true," said Yue at the court hearing Tuesday.
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