Published: 10:08, August 19, 2024 | Updated: 18:03, August 19, 2024
Bribery: Former vice-president of Chinese Football Association sentenced to 11 yrs
By Xinhu
In this photo released by the CCTV, Li Yuyi, the former vice-president of the Chinese Football Association, stands trial at the Intermediate People's Court of Jingzhou in Central China's Hubei province, March 29, 2024.

WUHAN - A Chinese court on Monday sentenced Li Yuyi, a former vice-president of the Chinese Football Association, to 11 years in prison for taking bribes.

Li was fined 1 million yuan ($139,860) and his illegal gains from the bribery will be recovered and turned over to the state treasury, according to a statement issued by the Intermediate People's Court of Jingzhou in Central China's Hubei province.

On the same day the People's Court of Jiayu county in Hubei sentenced Fu Xiang, formerly executive vice-president and secretary-general of the Wuhan Football Association, to 11 years in prison for embezzlement, taking and giving bribes.

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Fu, also former head of the Wuhan soccer administrative center, was fined 1.4 million yuan with the money he embezzled returned and illegal gains from the bribery recovered and turned over to the state treasury, according to a court statement.