Death sentences upheld
Source: Xinhua |
August 29, 2010, Sunday
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A COURT in southwest China's Yunnan Province has upheld the death penalty for three out of four gang leaders who appealed against a lower court's ruling last year.
The Yunnan Provincial Higher People's Court showed leniency to Yang Guoying, the other gang leader, whose sentence was changed to death with a two-year reprieve.
Under Chinese law, Yang's sentence will likely to be commuted to life imprisonment after two years if he does not commit any offences in jail.
The court said it had evidence Yang had been manipulated by the other three, namely Jiang Jiatian, his mistress Yang Jufen and Xie Mingxiang, another core member of the ring, to join and help run the 41-strong criminal gang.
Yang Guoying was Yang Jufen's father.
He and the other three were sentenced to death by the Intermediate People's Court in Kunming in December, on charges of drug trafficking, racketeering, fraud and selling counterfeit currency.
Li Wencai, a woman who played a leading role in the gang's drug trafficking, received the death penalty with a two-year reprieve.
The other 36 members of the gang received jail terms from 18 months to life.
Jiang, 56, made a fortune from drug trafficking in the mid 1990s and invested in at least 10 teahouses, Internet cafes and hotels in Kunming.
Almost all his businesses were dens for prostitution, extortion, racketeering, and sales of drugs and counterfeit banknotes.
The Yunnan Provincial Higher People's Court showed leniency to Yang Guoying, the other gang leader, whose sentence was changed to death with a two-year reprieve.
Under Chinese law, Yang's sentence will likely to be commuted to life imprisonment after two years if he does not commit any offences in jail.
The court said it had evidence Yang had been manipulated by the other three, namely Jiang Jiatian, his mistress Yang Jufen and Xie Mingxiang, another core member of the ring, to join and help run the 41-strong criminal gang.
Yang Guoying was Yang Jufen's father.
He and the other three were sentenced to death by the Intermediate People's Court in Kunming in December, on charges of drug trafficking, racketeering, fraud and selling counterfeit currency.
Li Wencai, a woman who played a leading role in the gang's drug trafficking, received the death penalty with a two-year reprieve.
The other 36 members of the gang received jail terms from 18 months to life.
Jiang, 56, made a fortune from drug trafficking in the mid 1990s and invested in at least 10 teahouses, Internet cafes and hotels in Kunming.
Almost all his businesses were dens for prostitution, extortion, racketeering, and sales of drugs and counterfeit banknotes.
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