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Court upholds CCTV fire verdicts
By Jane Chen |
July 6, 2010, Tuesday
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A HIGHER court in Beijing today upheld the verdicts on 13 officials for their involvement in a fire last February at the under-construction headquarters for China's state television station, Jcrb.com reported.
An illegal fireworks display started the blaze that gutted the 30-story CCTV building on February 9, 2009. A fireman died and six firemen and two construction workers were injured.
Damage was estimated at more than 160 million yuan (US$23.44 million).
Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court sentenced 19 officials to jail ranging from three to seven years on May 10.
Li Xiaohua, a vice general manager from Tsinghua Tongfang Co Ltd, was sentenced to six years, and Sha Peng, general manager of Supernova Media Development Co Ltd, was sentenced to 5 1/2 years. Wang Shirong, CCTV new headquarters' vice office dean, was sentenced to 4 1/2 years.
Xu Wei, a CCTV official who decided alone to stage the fireworks show and arranged for others to organize the event, was jailed for seven years.
Xu, Li, Sha, Wang and nine others appealed against the verdicts but had their appeals thrown out today by Beijing Higher People's Court.
An illegal fireworks display started the blaze that gutted the 30-story CCTV building on February 9, 2009. A fireman died and six firemen and two construction workers were injured.
Damage was estimated at more than 160 million yuan (US$23.44 million).
Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court sentenced 19 officials to jail ranging from three to seven years on May 10.
Li Xiaohua, a vice general manager from Tsinghua Tongfang Co Ltd, was sentenced to six years, and Sha Peng, general manager of Supernova Media Development Co Ltd, was sentenced to 5 1/2 years. Wang Shirong, CCTV new headquarters' vice office dean, was sentenced to 4 1/2 years.
Xu Wei, a CCTV official who decided alone to stage the fireworks show and arranged for others to organize the event, was jailed for seven years.
Xu, Li, Sha, Wang and nine others appealed against the verdicts but had their appeals thrown out today by Beijing Higher People's Court.
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