Ex-China Shipbuilding Industry Corp (CSIC) executive Sun Bo has been jailed for 12 years in China.
The sentence handed down at Shanghai No 1 Intermediate People’s Court was “lenient”, according to the South China Morning Post.
He was convicted of taking bribes and abusing power.
The court also fined Sun CNY 800,000 ($116,000) and ordered the confiscation of CNY 8.4m in bribes and gifts accepted by Sun and his wife.
Full confession
Sun inflicted “extremely heavy losses” on the state but was given a lenient sentence because he “confessed his crimes and volunteered information about crimes that the prosecutors have not yet discovered, truly repented, and returned the bribes and gifts that he had accepted”, the Xinhua news agency reported.
Sun has said he will not appeal his sentence.
Sun was arrested in China earlier this year. The Supreme People's Procuratorate said the former general manager and deputy chief of the leading Communist Party members' group at CSIC was held after a probe by the National Supervisory Commission.
Sun has arranged jobs for his relatives…he is suspected to have abused his power as an employee of a state-run company
Central Commission for Discipline Inspection
In December, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) expelled Sun from public office and the Communist Party of China.
Abuse of power
“Sun has arranged jobs for his relatives ... he is suspected to have abused his power as an employee of a state-run company,” according to a web statement at the time from the CCDI, the Communist Party’s organ responsible for investigating government and party officials for wrongdoings.
Sun had served as general manager and director of CSIC and deputy secretary of its Communist Party group since 2015, before coming under a CCDI investigation.
Born in 1961, Sun was trained as an engineer at Dalian University of Technology and was awarded a doctorate degree in designing and manufacturing marine structures.
He was promoted to a management role in CSIC in 2009 after spending much of his career with Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Corp (DSIC).
DSIC is a group subsidiary of CSIC, one of China’s two largest shipbuilding groups involved in both commercial and military shipbuilding.
