SINGAPORE, Dec 24: A former senior executive at China’s state-run Sinochem Group was sentenced on Tuesday to 11-and-a-half years in prison for taking bribes, a court in eastern Shandong province said.
Du Keping, a vice president at the chemicals and oil firm until April 2017, was found guilty of taking 12.66 million yuan ($1.8 million) worth of bribes, according to a statement on the Wechat account of the Shandong High People’s Court.
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Du was formerly head of Sinochem’s fertilizer business and president of Sinochem Hongkong Holdings Co Ltd.
A Sinochem Group spokesman declined to comment on the matter.
($1 = 7.0102 Chinese yuan renminbi)
