Ex-top secret police official jailed for life

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BEIJING: A Chinese court jailed for life a former high-ranking secret police official for taking bribes, “coercive” business deals and insider trading, the court said.

Ma Jian, once a vice-minister at the Ministry of State Security, is one of the most senior security officials to be jailed since the former domestic security tsar Zhou Yongkang was ensnared in a graft scandal and jailed for life in 2015.