Former China Football Federation president is sentenced to LIFE in prison as Chen Xuyuan is convicted of bribery as part of nation's crackdown on corruption in sport
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Former China Football Federation president is sentenced to LIFE in prison as Chen Xuyuan is convicted of bribery as part of nation's crackdown on corruption in sport

Daily Mail  

The former president of China's Football Federation, Chen Xuyuan, has been sentenced to life in prison for bribery, as reported by the country's state media. Former president of China 's Football Federation, Chen Xuyuan, has been sentenced to life in prison for bribery The investigation that led to Xuyuan's conviction covered a spell of illicit activities and malpractices during his time within the CFA Your browser does not support iframes. China's state-controlled Xinhua news agency report Xuyuan accepted money and gifts in exchange for his assistance on planning sporting events and helping obtain sporting contracts. Xuyuan alongside FIFA president Gianni Infantino at a FIFA council meeting in 2019 China's state-controlled Xinhua news agency report Guyan accepted money and gifts in exchange for his assistance on planning sporting events Li admitted he paid 3 million yuan in bribes to become coach of the national team and to taking part in a match-fixing scandal to win promotions with his club teams.

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Insurance manager sentenced to life for bribery
2 months, 1 week ago

Insurance manager sentenced to life for bribery

China Daily  

Xiao Xing, former deputy general manager of State-owned China Taiping Insurance Holdings Co Ltd, was sentenced to life imprisonment for bribery on Monday, according to a court in Central China. Previously, Xiao held several other management positions, including general manager of China Life Insurance's Shanghai branch and general manager of Taiping Asset Management Co Ltd. The court found that from …

Former senior official of Guangxi sentenced to 13 years
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Former senior official of Guangxi sentenced to 13 years

China Daily  

A former senior official in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region was sentenced to 13 years in prison for bribery on Wednesday, according to the Intermediate People's Court of Changde city in Hunan province. Zhang Xiulong, former vice-chairman of the standing committee of the People's Congress of Guangxi, was convicted of accepting bribes totaling more than 41.19 million yuan. According to …

Former deputy Party chief of Shanxi given life sentence for bribery
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Former deputy Party chief of Shanxi given life sentence for bribery

China Daily  

Shang Liguang, former deputy secretary of the Communist Party of China Shanxi Provincial Committee, was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for taking bribes, according to the Luoyang Intermediate People's Court of Henan province. The court found that from 1999 to 2023, Shang took advantage of his various positions, including the mayor of Qinhuangdao in Hebei province and deputy …

Li Tie appeals 20-year prison sentence
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Li Tie appeals 20-year prison sentence

China Daily  

Li Tie, former head coach of the Chinese national men's soccer team, has appealed to a higher court after being sentenced to 20 years in prison for bribery-related crimes earlier this month, Beijing Television reported on Monday. BTV posted an online statement saying that the Xianning Intermediate People's Court in Hubei province, which announced Li's conviction and sentence on Dec …

Li Tie appeals 20-year prison sentence
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Li Tie appeals 20-year prison sentence

China Daily  

Li Tie, former head coach of the Chinese national men's soccer team, has appealed to a higher court after being sentenced to 20 years in prison for bribery-related crimes earlier this month, Beijing Television reported on Monday. BTV posted an online statement saying that the Xianning Intermediate People's Court in Hubei province, which announced Li's conviction and sentence on Dec …

China executes former Communist Party official in £324m corruption case
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3 months ago

China executes former Communist Party official in £324m corruption case

The Independent  

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China executes official involved in country's largest corruption case
3 months ago

China executes official involved in country's largest corruption case

Hindustan Times  

China on Tuesday executed Li Jianping, a former official in the north Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, who was convicted in the largest-ever corruption case in the country totalling to over USD 421 million. The death sentence of Li, former secretary of the ruling Communist Party working committee of the Hohhot economic and technological development zone, was initially issued in September …

China executes former official Li Jianping involved in corruption case
3 months ago

China executes former official Li Jianping involved in corruption case

The Hindu  

China on Tuesday executed Li Jianping, a former official in the north Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, who was convicted in the largest-ever corruption case in the country totalling to more than $421 million. “Li was found guilty by an intermediate court earlier of embezzling a staggering three billion yuan in illegal gains — the largest sum involved in a single …

Chongqing senior official sentenced to death with a reprieve
3 months ago

Chongqing senior official sentenced to death with a reprieve

China Daily  

Xiong Xue, former deputy mayor of Chongqing, was sentenced to death with a reprieve in the first instance on Tuesday, for illegally accepting over 148 million yuan in bribery. The Intermediate People's Court of Zhengzhou in Henan province pronounced the verdict that Xiong was sentenced to death for the crime of bribery, with a two-year reprieve, deprivation of political rights …

China jails former Premier League star Li Tie 20 years for corruption
3 months, 1 week ago

China jails former Premier League star Li Tie 20 years for corruption

Deccan Chronicle  

China on Friday jailed former Premier League star and men's national coach Li Tie for 20 years for bribery, snaring one of the country's greatest football figures in a sweeping government crackdown on corruption in sport.President Xi Jinping has waged an unrelenting campaign against deep-seated official corruption since coming to power over a decade ago.Anti-graft authorities took aim at the …

Ex-soccer executives get prison terms for corruption
3 months, 1 week ago

Ex-soccer executives get prison terms for corruption

China Daily  

Two more former senior soccer executives have received prison terms in Hubei province, as China's anti-corruption campaign in the sport continues. On Friday, Du Zhaocai, former deputy head of the General Administration of Sport of China and former vice-president of the Chinese Football Association, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for bribery, and fined 4 million yuan, the Wuhan …

Ex-soccer executives get prison terms for corruption
3 months, 1 week ago

Ex-soccer executives get prison terms for corruption

China Daily  

Two more former senior soccer executives have received prison terms in Hubei province, as China's anti-corruption campaign in the sport continues. On Friday, Du Zhaocai, former deputy head of the General Administration of Sport of China and former vice-president of the Chinese Football Association, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for bribery, and fined 4 million yuan, the Wuhan …

China jails former national football coach for 20 years for bribery
3 months, 1 week ago

China jails former national football coach for 20 years for bribery

The Hindu  

The former coach of the Chinese men's national soccer team has received a 20-year prison sentence for bribery, Chinese State media reported Friday, December 13, 2024. Liu Tie, who once played in the English Premier League as a midfielder for Everton, was found guilty of “leveraging his positions” as head coach of the national football and national selection team to …

China jails former national football coach for 20 years for bribery
3 months, 1 week ago

China jails former national football coach for 20 years for bribery

The Independent  

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Li Tie: China sentences former Everton star and national team coach to 20 years for corruption
3 months, 1 week ago

Li Tie: China sentences former Everton star and national team coach to 20 years for corruption

The Independent  

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A Chinese court has sentenced former Everton midfielder …

Former China men’s football team coach Li Tie sentenced to 20 years in jail for corruption
3 months, 1 week ago

Former China men’s football team coach Li Tie sentenced to 20 years in jail for corruption

The Hindu  

Former China men’s national football team coach Li Tie has been jailed for 20 years, state media reported Friday, following a lengthy trial on corruption charges. Former Everton player Li “was sentenced to a fixed-term imprisonment of 20 years at an initial trial”, state news agency Xinhua said, without giving further details. String of convictions Chinese authorities have announced a …

Li Tie: former Premier League soccer star sentenced to 20 years in Chinese prison for corruption
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3 months, 1 week ago

Li Tie: former Premier League soccer star sentenced to 20 years in Chinese prison for corruption

CNN  

Hong Kong CNN — A former Chinese soccer star and coach of the country’s national men’s team has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for corruption, state media reported on Friday. Despite leader Xi Jinping’s vision to turn China into a “world soccer superpower,” Chinese professional soccer has been mired with poor financial decision making, deep-rooted corruption and disappointing …

China sentences ex-Premier League footballer Li Tie to 20 years in prison
3 months, 1 week ago

China sentences ex-Premier League footballer Li Tie to 20 years in prison

Al Jazeera  

Former national team coach is the biggest name to be netted in China’s sweeping crackdown on corruption in sport. Li Tie, former coach of the Chinese national team who once played for the Everton Football Club in the English Premier League, has been jailed in China for 20 years on bribery charges as part of a crackdown on corruption in …

Li Tie sentenced to 20 years in prison for bribery
3 months, 1 week ago

Li Tie sentenced to 20 years in prison for bribery

China Daily  

Li Tie, former head coach of the Chinese national men's soccer team, was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a court in Hubei province on Friday for bribery-related crimes. Evidence provided by prosecutors not only showed how Li offered bribes to those who helped him become head of the national men's soccer team and head of the selection panel …

Former Guangxi transportation chief sentenced to life in prison for bribery
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Former Guangxi transportation chief sentenced to life in prison for bribery

China Daily  

Chen Hongqi, the former chief of the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region's transportation department, was sentenced to life in prison for bribery on Friday by the intermediate people's court of Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. The court found Chen guilty of leveraging his positions as head of the region's safety production, quality supervision and transportation departments between 2009 and 2022 to …

Ex-Bank of China chairman sentenced to death for accepting $16.8 million in bribes
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Ex-Bank of China chairman sentenced to death for accepting $16.8 million in bribes

India Today  

The former chairman of the Bank of China, Liu Liange, was on Tuesday sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for corruption and illegal issuance of loans. He was found to have accepted bribes worth over 121 million yuan, a court in Jinan city in China's eastern Shandong Province said in its verdict. The court found that Liu had taken …

Former Zhejiang official receives life imprisonment for bribery
4 months ago

Former Zhejiang official receives life imprisonment for bribery

China Daily  

On Tuesday, Zhu Congjiu, a former senior political adviser in East China's Zhejiang province, was sentenced to life imprisonment for accepting bribes by the Ganzhou Intermediate People's Court in Ganzhou, Jiangxi province. Zhu was found to have made use of his various work positions from 2002 to 2022, including as general manager of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, head of the …

Former Zhejiang official receives life imprisonment for bribery
4 months ago

Former Zhejiang official receives life imprisonment for bribery

China Daily  

On Tuesday, Zhu Congjiu, a former senior political adviser in East China's Zhejiang province, was sentenced to life imprisonment for accepting bribes by the Ganzhou Intermediate People's Court in Ganzhou, Jiangxi province. Zhu was found to have made use of his various work positions from 2002 to 2022, including as general manager of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, head of the …

Two soccer officials face bribery charges
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Two soccer officials face bribery charges

China Daily  

Two former soccer officials stood on trial for multiple charges, including accepting bribes, in courts in central China's Hubei province on Monday. The People's Court of Shishou, Hubei, publicly heard the case of Qi Jun, former director of the strategic planning department of the Chinese Football Association, on charges of accepting bribes. In another case, the People's Court of Tongcheng …

Former head of one of China’s top state-owned phone companies sentenced to 16 years for corruption
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Former head of one of China’s top state-owned phone companies sentenced to 16 years for corruption

Associated Press  

BEIJING — A Chinese court sentenced the former head of one of the country’s three major state-owned phone carriers to 16 years in prison Tuesday on charges of accepting bribes and abusing his authority, part of leader Xi Jinping’s politically-tinged anti-corruption campaign. Xi’s campaign has ensnared thousands of Chinese officials and executives of state-owned companies in a long-running crackdown on …

Former China coach Li Tie goes on trial over bribery allegations
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Former China coach Li Tie goes on trial over bribery allegations

New Indian Express  

BEIJING, CHINA: Former China coach and ex-Everton midfielder Li Tie went on trial Thursday on allegations of bribery, state media said, part of a broader crackdown on corruption in football in the country. His former boss, the fallen Chinese Football Association chairman Chen Xuyuan, was jailed for life this week for taking bribes worth $11 million. Li, who was China …

China hands down terms of life to 8 years for sports officials convicted of taking bribes
11 months, 3 weeks ago

China hands down terms of life to 8 years for sports officials convicted of taking bribes

The Independent  

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China hands down terms of life to eight years for sports officials convicted of taking bribes
11 months, 3 weeks ago

China hands down terms of life to eight years for sports officials convicted of taking bribes

The Hindu  

The former president of the Chinese Football Association has been sentenced to life in prison amid a wide-ranging crackdown on sports corruption. Chinese courts on Tuesday handed down sentences of between eight years and life in prison to officials in the Communist Party-controlled sports programs, accusing them of taking bribes and committing other financial crimes. Other high-ranking officials sentenced to …

The former chairman of the state-owned Bank of Beijing is being investigated for alleged corruption
1 year ago

The former chairman of the state-owned Bank of Beijing is being investigated for alleged corruption

Associated Press  

BEIJING — The former chairman of the state-owned Bank of Beijing is under investigation for corruption, the latest in a series of graft investigations focused on the country’s financial sector. Others who have been targeted for alleged corruption include a former Chinese central bank senior official, Sun Guofeng, who was sentenced to over 16 years in prison for accepting bribes. …

Former Everton midfielder is pictured confessing to corruption and match-fixing on Chinese TV - in an admission that led to him 'being sentenced to LIFE in prison' over £300,000 bribes
1 year ago

Former Everton midfielder is pictured confessing to corruption and match-fixing on Chinese TV - in an admission that led to him 'being sentenced to LIFE in prison' over £300,000 bribes

Daily Mail  

A former Everton midfielder has been pictured confessing to corruption and match-fixing on Chinese TV. Li Tie has been pictured confessing to corruption and match-fixing on Chinese TV The former Everton player has reportedly been sentenced to life imprisonment after admitting to paying bribes and fixing matches The China-based journalist and author Mark Dreyer said Li had been sentenced to …

Former Everton player 'sentenced to LIFE in prison' for corruption and match-fixing after confessing to paying over £300,000 in bribes to get national team post
1 year ago

Former Everton player 'sentenced to LIFE in prison' for corruption and match-fixing after confessing to paying over £300,000 in bribes to get national team post

Daily Mail  

Former Everton player Li Tie has reportedly been sentenced to life in prison in his native China for corruption. Li played 33 matches for Everton while on loan from Chinese club Liaoning during the 2002-03 season and played seven games the following season after signing permanently. The former Everton player Li Tie has reportedly been sentenced to life imprisonment after …

Docuseries tackles corruption in soccer
1 year, 2 months ago

Docuseries tackles corruption in soccer

China Daily  

The final episode of an anti-corruption documentary series, which aired on China Central Television on Tuesday, garnered widespread interest as it bared the dark underbelly of Chinese soccer, exposing rampant abuse of power and instances of match-fixing and bribery involving several senior soccer officials. The episode started with details of the investigation launched in November 2022 against Li Tie, former …

Former China Football Head Coach Reveals Paying Bribes For Job, Confesses To Match-Fixing
1 year, 2 months ago

Former China Football Head Coach Reveals Paying Bribes For Job, Confesses To Match-Fixing

News 18  

The former Chinese national football team coach has made a televised confession in which he admitted to paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to secure the top job, as well as involvement in match-fixing. Li Tie, a former Everton midfielder who served as the national team’s head coach, was placed under investigation in 2022, accused by authorities of …

China finance boss jailed for life as part of major corruption purge
1 year, 6 months ago

China finance boss jailed for life as part of major corruption purge

The Independent  

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Former China football coach Li Tie charged with corruption
1 year, 7 months ago

Former China football coach Li Tie charged with corruption

The Hindu  

Former China football coach Li Tie has been charged with corruption offences, the country’s top public prosecutor said Wednesday, as the government cracks down on graft in the sports sector. A string of Chinese football officials have fallen under investigation since November for “serious violations of the law”, including football association chief Chen Xuyuan. Wednesday’s announcement about Li, one of …

Former top cops receive suspended death sentences from China's Xi Jinping
2 years, 5 months ago

Former top cops receive suspended death sentences from China's Xi Jinping

Firstpost  

Chinese authorities have announced a spate of high-profile sentences this week, as an anti-graft campaign kicks into high gear ahead of a political meeting next month where President Xi Jinping is expected to secure an unprecedented third term A Chinese former top security official faces life in prison after a court on Friday hit him with a suspended death sentence …

China official gets life imprisonment for corruption amid Xi Jinping's crackdown
2 years, 5 months ago

China official gets life imprisonment for corruption amid Xi Jinping's crackdown

Hindustan Times  

A Chinese court sentenced a former top security official to life in prison, completing a crackdown on the “political clique” he led just weeks before a crucial Communist Party reshuffle. Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Former Vice Public Security Minister Sun Lijun, 53, was given a suspended death sentence with no possibility …

Two Former Top Chinese Security Officials Sentenced to Death with 2-year Reprieve for Graft, Abuse of Power
2 years, 5 months ago

Two Former Top Chinese Security Officials Sentenced to Death with 2-year Reprieve for Graft, Abuse of Power

News 18  

Two senior Chinese security officials, including a powerful former justice minister, were sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for corruption and abuse of power as the anti-graft campaign of President Xi Jinping gathered new momentum ahead of the next month’s Communist Party Congress which is expected to endorse a record third term for him. Fu Zhenghua, former Justice Minister …

Former Chief of China's Top State Lender Lai Xiaomin Executed for Corruption Worth $276 Million & Bigamy
4 years, 1 month ago

Former Chief of China's Top State Lender Lai Xiaomin Executed for Corruption Worth $276 Million & Bigamy

News 18  

Lai Xiaomin, former chief of China's top state-owned asset management company, was executed on Friday after a court sentenced him to death for corruption involving $276 million and bigamy. The Second Municipal Intermediate People's Court of Tianjin, which sentenced him to death, earlier in its ruling said that between 2008 and 2018, Lai, former board chairman of China Huarong Asset …

Lai Xiaomin: China sentences former Huarong chairman to death for bribery
4 years, 2 months ago

Lai Xiaomin: China sentences former Huarong chairman to death for bribery

CNN  

Hong Kong CNN Business — A Chinese court has sentenced the former chairman of a huge state-owned financial company to death after finding him guilty of bribery. Lai Xiaomin —who used to chair China Huarong Asset Management — was guilty of taking or seeking bribes totaling nearly 1.8 billion yuan, a court in the port city of Tianjin said on …

Former head of China state asset firm sentenced to death
4 years, 2 months ago

Former head of China state asset firm sentenced to death

The Independent  

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China Sentences Ex-chairman of Asset Management Company for Seeking Bribes, Bigamy
4 years, 2 months ago

China Sentences Ex-chairman of Asset Management Company for Seeking Bribes, Bigamy

News 18  

The former chairman of China’s Huarong Asset Management Co was sentenced to death, a court in the northern city of Tianjin said on Tuesday, in one of the country’s highest profile corruption cases. Lai Xiaomin was convicted of receiving or seeking bribes totalling 1.788 billion yuan from 2008 to 2018, when he was also a senior banking regulator, according to …

China’s ex deputy intelligence chief jailed for life over graft
6 years, 2 months ago

China’s ex deputy intelligence chief jailed for life over graft

Al Jazeera  

Court sentences Ma Jian to life in prison for corruption offences, including accepting bribes and insider trading. A Chinese court has jailed for life a former high-ranking intelligence official for taking bribes, coercive business deals and insider trading. “Ma Jian’s behaviour constituted the crime of accepting bribes, forcing others to trade and insider trading,” the Dalian Intermediate People’s Court in …

China sentences Xi Jinping's former rival to life in prison
6 years, 10 months ago

China sentences Xi Jinping's former rival to life in prison

The Independent  

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Prison is price of graft for 6 'tigers'
7 years, 9 months ago

Prison is price of graft for 6 'tigers'

China Daily  

Six former senior officials were convicted of bribery and given sentences ranging from six years to life imprisonment by Chinese courts on Wednesday. They were Wang Baoan, former head of the National Bureau of Statistics; Chen Xuefeng, former Party chief in Luoyang, Henan province; and Lu Ziyue, former mayor of Ningbo, Zhejiang province. The other three, handed sentences ranging from …

1 ex-official sentenced, 1 pleads guilty in corruption cases
7 years, 10 months ago

1 ex-official sentenced, 1 pleads guilty in corruption cases

China Daily  

Wang Baoan, former head of the National Bureau of Statistics, pleaded guilty on Thursday to accepting 154 million yuan in the Zhangjiakou Intermediate People's Court, Hebei province. In a separate case on the same day, in Lanzhou, Gansu province, Mao Xiaobing, a former high-ranking official from Qinghai province, was sentenced to life in prison for taking bribes and embezzling public …

1 ex-official sentenced, 1 pleads guilty in corruption cases
7 years, 10 months ago

1 ex-official sentenced, 1 pleads guilty in corruption cases

China Daily  

Wang Baoan, former head of the National Bureau of Statistics, pleaded guilty on Thursday to accepting 154 million yuan in the Zhangjiakou Intermediate People's Court, Hebei province. In a separate case on the same day, in Lanzhou, Gansu province, Mao Xiaobing, a former high-ranking official from Qinghai province, was sentenced to life in prison for taking bribes and embezzling public …

Courts try 2 high-ranking officials for bribery; 1 sentenced to 15 years in prison
7 years, 11 months ago

Courts try 2 high-ranking officials for bribery; 1 sentenced to 15 years in prison

China Daily  

Zhang Yue, the former top official in charge of political and legal affairs in Hebei province, was tried on charges of taking bribes of more than 157 million yuan. The bribery case was tried in open court at Changzhou Intermediate People's Court in Jiangsu province on Thursday, the court said in a statement on its website. The Changzhou People's Procuratorate …

Ex-sports chief gets 10 years for bribery, abuses of power
8 years, 2 months ago

Ex-sports chief gets 10 years for bribery, abuses of power

China Daily  

China's former vice-minister of sport has been sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison after he was convicted of bribery by a court in Henan province on Monday. Xiao Tian, former deputy head of the State General Administration of Sport, was found by the Nanyang People's Intermediate Court to have taken bribes worth more than 7.96 million yuan …

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