BEIJING – One of China’s former intelligence chiefs has been sentenced tolife in prison after being found guilty of accepting 109 million yuan(US$15.8 million) in bribes, and crimes relating to insider trading andforced share transfers.
Ma Jian, the former deputy head of China’s Ministry of State Security, wastried on Thursday at Dalian Intermediate Court in northeast China, where hewas also fined 50.5 million yuan. Ma had been put under investigation in2015 and expelled from the Communist Party one year later.
The court ordered the confiscation of all of Ma’s personal property anddemanded the return of his ill-gotten gains, the South China MonitoringPost reported.
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He pleaded guilty and would not appeal, a court in the north-easternLiaoning province said.
