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Ex-official sentenced to life for bribery

By Zhang Jiawei (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2010-05-10 11:56

Zhu Zhigang, China's former deputy finance minister, was sentenced to life in prison for taking bribes, in his first trial in Xinyang of Central China's Henan province on Monday, Xinhua News Agency reported.

Zhu was one of China's 12 high-ranking officials removed from their provincial or ministerial level posts in the past two years after being investigated for corruption.

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