The Chinese justice system this Wednesday sentenced the former secretary general ofa Chinese Football Association (CFA) Liu Yi up to eleven years in prison for accepting bribes. The People’s Court of the city of Xianning, in central Hubei province, also imposed a fine of 3.6 million yuan ($496,600, 471,700 euros), the court reported today on its official account on the local social network WeChat.
Also, the properties obtained by the accused without violating the law will be confiscated and delivered to the public treasury, in accordance with the judicial resolution. Liu began to be investigated in February 2023, along with the CFA’s former president between 2019 and 2023, Chen Xuyuan, who was sentenced in March to life in prison for accepting more than 81 million yuan (11.2 million dollars or 10.3 million euros ) on bribes throughout his 13-year career.
Liu Yi’s belief is not the only one known today in the football scene in the Asian giant. Another Chinese court, in the city of Shishou, also in Hubei, on Wednesday sentenced the former director of the CFA Referee Management Department, Tan Hai, to six years and six months in prison for the crime of bribery, in addition to imposition of a fine of 200,000 yuan (27,600 dollars, 26,200 euros).
In August, former CFA competition director Huang Song was sentenced to seven years in prison for accepting bribes, just days after former CFA vice president Li Yuyi was sentenced to eleven years in prison for in the same crime. In the same month, the former president and general secretary of the Football Association of the central city of Chengdu, Gu Jimiang, received a six-year sentence for embezzlement and accepting and offering bribes.
There are many more cases of corruption in China
In recent years, many Chinese football officials have been investigated for corruption, including former Chinese Super League president Liu Jun or even former national coach Li Tie, one of football legends to the Asian giant, who reached the game for the English club Everton. In recent times, the CFA has promised “greater openness and transparency” in the face of the many corruption cases registered within it.
After coming to power in 2012, the current general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the country’s president, Xi Jinping, began an anti-corruption campaign in which several high-ranking Chinese officials were convicted of accepting millions dollar bribe. .
Source: La Verdad
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