CHINA-CORRUPTION: CO-FOUNDER OF BEIJING NEWS SENTENCED TO 8 YEARS JAIL TERM FOR "BRIBERY"
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Radio Free Asia (November. ) disclosed that 58-year old Dai Zigeng, co-founder and publisher of Beijing News has been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for "bribery". The original sentence was awarded by the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court on February 22, 2021 which also ordered seizure of more than 16 million yuan of Dai Zigeng's assets. selling some of them. It said Dai Zigeng resigned as publisher at the Beijing News after the CCP stepped up control and censorship of the media and later worked as general manager and deputy secretary of the CCP committee of Beijing Cultural Investment and Development Group, a state-owned investment and management services company. Veteran journalist Cheng Yizhong, who co-founded the Beijing News with Dai Zigeng, said his sentencing and trial appeared to have taken place in secret, as neither the sentence nor any details of the charges against him had been made public.
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