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Sept. 15, 2006 / 3:34 PM

Official gets life term in bribery case

BEIJING, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- A senior Finance Ministry official in China has been sentenced to life in prison for allegedly accepting bribes totaling about $267,500.

The official Xinhua news agency said the accused Xu Fangming had been director of ministry's finance department.

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The court accused Xu of helping the head of an investment consultancy firm win a $50 million car-leasing contract in exchange for the bribes.

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