2 more Chinese football officials jailed and fined in corruption crackdown
Ex-head of Chinese Super League Liu Jun, former CFA disciplinary committee chief Wang Xiaoping both sentenced to more than decade behind bars
Two more Chinese football officials were sent to prison for more than a decade and ordered to pay huge fines on Wednesday, the latest move in an ongoing corruption crackdown in the sport.
Liu Jun, the former chairman of the Chinese Super League company, was given an 11-year jail term by a court in central Hubei province, and was also fined 1.1 million yuan (US$153,000) on charges of “bribery”.
State media said Liu’s “illegal gains resulting from the bribery” would be recovered and turned over to the state treasury.
Reports of Liu’s fall from grace emerged nearly two years ago when he was placed under investigation for suspected corruption.
And Wang Xiaoping, who previously headed the Chinese Football Association’s disciplinary committee, has been jailed for 10½ years and fined 700,000 yuan.
His “illegal gains from bribery and related earnings” would be recovered and turned over to the national treasury, the people’s court of Songzi City in Hubei announced in a public ruling.