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Chinese Telecom Executive Sentenced to Death for Bribery

SHANGHAI — A former executive at China Mobile, one of this country’s biggest state-owned telecommunications companies, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve Tuesday for accepting bribes, according to Xinhua, the state-run news agency.

The sentence means that with good behavior the executive’s penalty could be commuted to life in prison. Li Hua, the former chairman and general manager of the Sichuan branch of China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile phone operator as measured by subscribers, was convicted of accepting more than $2.5 million in bribes by the Intermediate People’s Court in the city of Panzhihua, in southwest China’s Sichuan Province.

The same type of sentence was handed down last month for one of the company’s other former executives, Zhang Chunjiang, who once served as vice chairman of China Mobile. He was convicted of accepting more than $1.15 million in bribes while working at a series of state-run telecom companies from 1994 to 2009.


Source: The New York Times, August 31, 2011

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