HARBIN, March 31 -- Gu Chunli, former vice governor of northeast China's Jilin Province, was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Friday for taking bribes at a court in neighboring Heilongjiang Province.
Personal assets worth 2 million yuan (around 290,000 U.S. dollars) belonging to Gu were confiscated, and his illegal gains shall be recovered and turned over to the state treasury, according to a statement by the Harbin City Intermediate People's Court in Heilongjiang.
