BEIJING: A court in northeast China sentenced a former vice president of China Mobile Ltd's state-owned parent to life in prison for accepting bribes, state media said on Friday, the latest executive at a state-owned firm to have his fate sealed as China tries to root out corruption.
Lu Xiangdong, 53, in collusion with others including his wife, abused his position to take more than 25 million yuan ($4.10 million) in bribes between 2003 and 2011, the official Xinhua news agency said, citing a mid-November ruling by a court in Jilin province.
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