12 years behind bars for corrupt former boss of Chinese warship builder CSIC
- Sun Bo, who headed up the company overseeing the construction of the country’s aircraft carriers, gets lighter sentence for volunteering information about other crimes
A Shanghai court handed down a lenient sentence to the corrupt former head of one of China’s biggest shipbuilders after he shed new light on other crimes, state media reported on Thursday.
Shanghai No 1 Intermediate People’s Court sentenced Sun Bo, former general manager of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC), to 12 years in prison for taking bribes and abuse of power, state news agency Xinhua reported.
The court also fined Sun 800,000 yuan (US$116,000) and ordered the confiscation of 8.4 million yuan in bribes and gifts accepted by Sun and his wife.
Sun inflicted “extremely heavy losses” on the state but he was given a lenient sentence because he “confessed his crimes and volunteered information about crimes that the prosecutors have not yet discovered, truly repented, and returned the bribes and gifts that he had accepted”, the report said.
It did not say if the information led to other arrests or if his wife was under investigation.
Sun said he would not appeal against the sentence.