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Sun Yu
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Former vice chairman of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region Sun Yu was given an 18-year prison sentence by the Nanning intermediate people’s court Monday for corruption and bribery.
The court determined Sun cheated four million yuan ($0.57 million) in state funds and took bribery money totaling 3.28 million yuan ($0.47 million) from 2003 to 2007 by taking advantage of his position. Most of the money has been recovered and a further one million yuan ($142,800) of his property will be confiscated.
Sun was to be sentenced to a 29-year jail term for the two charges, but the court gave him a lenient punishment after he confessed during the investigation.
