• Ex-Party chief of Hohhot sentenced

    2020-11-04

    Yun Guangzhong, a former senior official in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for taking bribes on Tuesday and fined 5.5 million yuan ($822,220), a court in Liaoning province said.

  • Gang leader sentenced to death in Qinghai

    2020-11-04

    A court in Qinghai province sentenced a leader of a mafia-style gang to death on Friday for more than 10 crimes, including intentional homicide, and handed 38 other gang members prison terms ranging from two years to life.

  • Court sentences 23 organized crime gang members to prison

    2020-10-20

    The Changchun Intermediate People's Court, Northeast China's Jilin province, sentenced 23 organized crime gang members to prison terms ranging from two and half a years to 25 years for committing 12 types of crime on Monday.

  • Nine sentenced to jail over counterfeiting LEGO toys

    2020-09-03

    A Chinese court on Sept 2 sentenced nine people to jail terms of up to six years over counterfeiting and manufacturing LEGO toys.

  • Former official gets six-year prison term

    2020-08-28

    The first former civil servant China extradited from a European Union member state was sentenced to six years in prison for taking more than 52 million yuan ($7.5 million) in bribes.

  • Beijing court sentences counterfeit merchant

    2020-07-29

    A court in Beijing sentenced a merchant to pay one million yuan (about $143,000) in damages to JD.com, a Chinese e-commerce giant, for selling counterfeit cosmetics online, the court said on July 27.

  • China's Hunan punishes defendants for mafia-style crimes

    2020-06-30

    Seventeen defendants were given sentences, ranging from the death penalty to prison terms, for mafia-style crimes in central China's Hunan Province on Monday, according to a local court.

  • Real estate firm founder gets jail time for molesting child

    2020-06-18

    A billionaire founder of a domestic real estate firm convicted of molesting a 9-year-old girl at a five-star hotel in Shanghai was sentenced to five years of imprisonment, the longest jail term for molestation under Chinese law, by a local court on June 17.