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8-year sentence stands for human-skull dealer
By Alice Zhang |
September 18, 2010, Saturday
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THE Beijing Higher People's Court has upheld a Chinese-American man's eight-year sentence for selling more than 200 human skulls to foreign countries.
Ding Hai, 45, who has a PhD from Florida State University, also received a 300,000 yuan (US$44,000) fine and deportation, the court said yesterday.
The court also upheld the five-year sentence given to one of two farmers from the northwest Qinghai Province who appealed charges of illegal business trading. The two were accused of digging and selling skulls from cemeteries for Ding.
Ding started trading human remains between 2006 and 2008. He bought nearly 1,300 skulls at 80 yuan to 160 yuan each from the two farmers and then sold 200 of them at US$150 each to overseas labs and research institutes. Ding gained nearly 130,000 yuan in profits.
Ding was discovered in May 2008, when the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation sent a letter to China's Ministry of Public Security, saying they had uncovered parcels containing unidentified human skulls.
Beijing police then launched an investigation and found more than 1,100 human skulls in Ding's garage in Beijing.
Ding obtained American citizenship in 1987 and returned to China to work at a Beijing-based information consulting firm in 2003.
Ding Hai, 45, who has a PhD from Florida State University, also received a 300,000 yuan (US$44,000) fine and deportation, the court said yesterday.
The court also upheld the five-year sentence given to one of two farmers from the northwest Qinghai Province who appealed charges of illegal business trading. The two were accused of digging and selling skulls from cemeteries for Ding.
Ding started trading human remains between 2006 and 2008. He bought nearly 1,300 skulls at 80 yuan to 160 yuan each from the two farmers and then sold 200 of them at US$150 each to overseas labs and research institutes. Ding gained nearly 130,000 yuan in profits.
Ding was discovered in May 2008, when the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation sent a letter to China's Ministry of Public Security, saying they had uncovered parcels containing unidentified human skulls.
Beijing police then launched an investigation and found more than 1,100 human skulls in Ding's garage in Beijing.
Ding obtained American citizenship in 1987 and returned to China to work at a Beijing-based information consulting firm in 2003.
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