Xinhua: “Four famous Chinese football referees, including former “Golden Whistle” Lu Jun were sentenced to from at least three and a half to most seven years imprisonment for match-fixing after the first trial by the Intermediate People’s Court of Dandong here on Thursday.
Chinese best known referee Lu Jun, who had officiated in the 2002 South Korea/Japan FIFA World Cup and 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, was sentenced to five and a half years imprisonment for taking a total of 810,000 yuan(about 128,657 U.S. dollars) in bribes for fixing seven league matches involving four clubs. Lu was also had personal property worth 100,000 yuan (about 15,880 U.S. dollars) confiscated.
Lu’s three colleagues Huang Junjie, Zhou Weixin and Wan Daxue, were sentenced to seven, three and a half and six years in jail respectively for fixing league matches and even some international friendlies among clubs.
The judge convicted Huang Junjie of taking 1,480,000 yuan and 100,000 Hongkong dollars (about 247,975 U.S. dollars) in 21 cases. Huang was also confiscated personal assets worth 200,000 yuan (about 31,760 U.S. dollars).”
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-02/16/c_131414053.htm
This news – together with one recently about food contamination and cadmium pollutions and so forth – is an indication that China is tightening up its stance on corruption.
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