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Life sentence for former official

THE former deputy Party secretary of northeast China's Changchun City, Jilin Province, has been sentenced to life in jail for corruption. His property was confiscated and the Intermediate People's Court also... ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Thu, Jul 24 2008

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