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Life sentence for ex-China Supreme Court justice
The Associated Press , Beijing | Tue, 01/19/2010 2:33 PM | World
A former Chinese Supreme Court judge was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday
following his conviction for embezzlement and receiving more than half a
million dollars in bribes.
One-time court vice president Huang Songyou is the first judicial official of
his stature to be tried and convicted on such charges, part of a continuing
battle by the Communist Party against deep-seated corruption.
Formally known as the Supreme People's Court, the body is the highest judicial
panel in China with wide-ranging powers including overseeing lower courts and
reviewing death sentences. The court has 13 members, with its grand justice
also sitting on the party's decision-making Central Committee.
Huang's entire property also was confiscated as part of the ruling, according
to a brief report by the official China News Service.
Huang was accused of taking 3.9 million yuan ($574,000) in bribes from a law
firm in return for favorable rulings on cases between 2005 and 2008.
He was also charged with embezzling 1.2 million yuan ($176,000) in government
funds while serving as president of a city level court in the southern province
of Guangdong in 1997.
Huang was fired and kicked out of the party in August and went on trial last
Thursday at the Langfang Municipal Intermediate Court in Hebei province just
outside Beijing. Calls to the court rang unanswered on Tuesday.
The official Xinhua News Agency said Huang had confessed to the charges during
the investigation stage and most of the bribes and embezzled funds had been
recovered.
"But as a chief justice, Huang knowingly violated the law by trading power for
money and taking a hefty sum of bribes, which has produced a bad impact on the
society, and should be punished severely," Xinhua said, citing the verdict.
It said it wasn't known whether Huang would appeal.
China hopes such high-profile takedowns of leading Communist Party members will
scare the rank and file straight.
Shanghai's former powerful Communist Party chief, Chen Liangyu, became the most
senior official to fall when he was sentenced in 2008 to 18 years in prison for
his role in a pension fund scandal.
In 2007, the director of China's food and drug agency was executed for
approving deadly fake medicine in exchange for cash.
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