SINGAPORE, Dec 24 (Reuters) – A former senior government at China’s state-run Sinochem Group was sentenced on Tuesday to 11-and-a-half years in jail for taking bribes, a courtroom in jap Shandong province mentioned.
Du Keping, a vp on the chemical substances and oil agency till April 2017, was discovered responsible of taking 12.66 million yuan ($1.eight million) price of bribes, in line with a press release on the Wechat account of the Shandong Excessive Folks’s Courtroom.
Du was previously head of Sinochem’s fertilizer enterprise and president of Sinochem Hongkong Holdings Co Ltd.
A Sinochem Group spokesman declined to touch upon the matter.
($1 = 7.0102 Chinese language yuan renminbi)
(Reporting by Chen Aizhu; modifying by Richard Pullin)
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