Yang Xiuzhu is on trial at Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, Oct. 13, 2017. Once China's most wanted fugitive, Yang Xiuzhu was Friday sentenced to eight years in jail for embezzlement and taking bribes. Yang, former vice mayor of Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, was number one on China's top 100 fugitives, which were released in an Interpol "red notice" in 2015. The court also fined Yang 800,000 yuan (121,500 U.S. dollars) and ordered the confiscation of her illegal gains totaling 26.4 million yuan (about 4 million U.S. dollars). Yang fled China in 2003. She returned and turned herself in on Nov. 16, 2016. According to the court, her sentence was reduced as she turned herself in, confessed to her crimes and actively returned her illegal gains. (Xinhua)
HANGZHOU, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- Once China's most wanted fugitive, Yang Xiuzhu, was sentenced to eight years in jail Friday for embezzlement and taking bribes by a court in east China.
Yang, former vice mayor of Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, was number one on China's top 100 fugitives, which were released in an Interpol "red notice" in 2015.
