Update | Son and wife of China’s jailed ex-security tsar found guilty of taking bribes
Zhou Bin jailed for 18 years and fined 350m yuan, while his stepmother, Jia Xiaoye, is sentenced to nine years and handed 1m yuan penalty
Both the son and wife of former security tsar Zhou Yongkang, the most senior official sacked for corruption in modern China, have been found guilty of taking bribes and handed jail terms, according to official media.
Zhou Bin, the 44-year-old elder son of the disgraced former Politburo Standing Committee member, was imprisoned for 18 years and fined 350 million yuan (HK$412 million) by the Yichang Intermediate People’s Court in Hubei province on Wednesday, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
He was convicted of taking more than 222 million yuan in bribes, in concert with his father and others, and had used his father’s position to obtain the payments, it said.
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Zhou was also found guilty of involvement in the trade of prohibited goods, which had severely disrupted market order.
In a separate hearing, the same court sentenced Zhou’s second wife, Jia Xiaoye, 46, to nine years’ jail for bribery, according to a statement on the court’s social media account. Jia, a former CCTV employee, had used the influence of others to procure the money and was fined 1 million yuan, it said.
The amount she accepted was not specified, nor the date of her trial.
Both Zhou Bin and Jia said they would not appeal.
