Yang Dacai, the former director of the work safety bureau in Shaanxi province, stands his trial at the Xi'an Intermediate People's Court in Xi'an in northwest Shaanxi Province. Photo: AP
Yang Dacai, the former director of the work safety bureau in Shaanxi province, stands his trial at the Xi'an Intermediate People's Court in Xi'an in northwest Shaanxi Province. Photo: AP
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'Brother Watch' official with expensive taste gets 14 years' jail for graft

Shaanxi official Yang Dacai, whose love for costly timepieces proved his undoing, is jailed for 14 years for acquiring unexplained fortune

Keith Zhai

Updated: 10:58am, 6 Sep, 2013

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Yang Dacai, the former director of the work safety bureau in Shaanxi province, stands his trial at the Xi'an Intermediate People's Court in Xi'an in northwest Shaanxi Province. Photo: AP
Yang Dacai, the former director of the work safety bureau in Shaanxi province, stands his trial at the Xi'an Intermediate People's Court in Xi'an in northwest Shaanxi Province. Photo: AP
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