A former senior official in Macau, Asia's gambling capital, was convicted of six fresh charges of corruption and three more counts of money laundering on May 31, and had his sentence extended by six months to 29 years by the Macau Court of Final Appeal, the court said in its ruling.
The court ruled the transfer of the plots of land next to Macau International Airport involved illegal activity.
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