China’s former spy chief jailed for life over corruption
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BEIJING – One of China’s former intelligence chiefs has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of accepting 109 million yuan (US$15.8 million) in bribes, and crimes relating to insider trading and forced share transfers.
Ma Jian, the former deputy head of China’s Ministry of State Security, was tried on Thursday at Dalian Intermediate Court in northeast China, where he was also fined 50.5 million yuan. Ma had been put under investigation in 2015 and expelled from the Communist Party one year later.
The court ordered the confiscation of all of Ma’s personal property and demanded the return of his ill-gotten gains, the South China Monitoring Post reported.
He pleaded guilty and would not appeal, a court in the north-eastern Liaoning province said.
