BEIJING: Nineteen people, including former officials, were handed down prison terms of various lengths, ranging from two years to 20 years, for offences related to organised crime convict Sun Xiaoguo.Sun was sentenced to death in 1998, but finally received 20 years of imprisonment after a retrial in 2007. He was released in 2010 after several reductions in his sentence, serving only 12 years and five months in prison.
In July this year, the Yunnan Provincial Higher People’s Court decided that the verdict in 2007 was incorrect and the case should be reheard.
In the latest verdict, Sun’s stepfather Li Qiaozhong was sentenced to 19 years in prison. He was a deputy police chief in the Wuhua district of Kunming and was removed from the position in 1998 for helping Sun get out of jail illegally.
Sun’s mother Sun Heyu got 20 years in prison. She was handed a 25-year jail term last month for crimes such as organising and leading mafia-like organisations.
The organisations were found to have committed crimes of opening casinos, creating disturbances, illegally taking others into custody, intentionally inflicting injury upon others, gathering crowds for fighting, obstructing witnesses giving evidence and offering bribes, among others. — China Daily/ANN
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