Beijing: Former Top Chinese Judge Gets Life in Prison

A former Chinese Supreme Court judge has been sentenced to life in prison for embezzlement and bribery.

52-year-old Huang Songyou was convicted in a Beijing court on Tuesday for taking the equivalent of more than half a million U.S. dollars in bribes. He allegedly accepted the money from a law firm between 2005 and 2008 in exchange for making rulings in their favor. Huang was serving as a judge on the Supreme People’s Court at the time.

He was also charged with embezzling $176,000 U.S. dollars in government funds while serving as president of lower city-level court in China’s Guangdong Province in 1997.

Huang’s case is one in a string of high-profile corruption and embezzlement scandals in China over the past year.

(NTDTV)