Owner cleared after 20 years, but he didn't live to hear ruling

In dispute over sheet metal, facts, law were misapplied, circuit court says

An entrepreneur from Northeast China's Liaoning province who had been convicted of fraud had his name cleared posthumously after a retrial, because of errors of fact and incorrect application of law.

The Supreme People's Court's Second Circuit Court pronounced Zhao Mingli, the former owner of a rivet and welding processing plant in Anshan, Liaoning, not guilty on Wednesday, about 20 years after his wrongful conviction and appeals.