Ex-sports chief gets 10 years for bribery, abuses of power

China's former vice-minister of sport has been sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison after he was convicted of bribery by a court in Henan province on Monday.

Xiao Tian, former deputy head of the State General Administration of Sport, was found by the Nanyang People's Intermediate Court to have taken bribes worth more than 7.96 million yuan ($1.15 million) between 1997 and 2014, the court said in an online statement.

Xiao was ordered to pay a fine of 500,000 yuan, and the bribes he took will also be recovered and turned over to the national treasury, the statement said.