Former top judge gets life term
By Wang Jingqiong | China Daily | Updated: 2010-01-20 07:37
A court has sentenced to life the most senior judge ever convicted of taking bribes and embezzlement, in a sign of intensified efforts to fight judicial corruption.
Huang Songyou, former vice-president of the Supreme People's Court (SPC), was found guilty of taking bribes of more than 3.9 million yuan ($574,000) from 2005 to 2008, said the Langfang Intermediate People's Court in north China's Hebei province, where Huang went on trial last Thursday.
He is the first justice of the highest court to be dismissed for law and discipline violations, according to Shen Deyong, executive vice-president of the SPC.
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