{"id":31508,"date":"2019-02-20T14:35:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T14:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/02\/20\/former-top-chinese-general-sentenced-to-life-for-corruption\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:34:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:34:42","slug":"former-top-chinese-general-sentenced-to-life-for-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2019\/02\/20\/former-top-chinese-general-sentenced-to-life-for-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Former top Chinese general sentenced to life for corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BEIJING \u2014 A former top Chinese general has been given a life sentence for taking and distributing bribes and possessing a large amount of property whose origins he could not account for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2018\/01\/why-general-fang-fenghui-was-purged\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fang Fenghui<\/a>, former chief of the People\u2019s Liberation Army\u2019s joint staff department, is the latest military figure to fall in President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Xi-Jinping\" target=\"_blank\">Xi Jinping<\/a>\u2019s crackdown on graft and waste at all levels of the government and military, and the first ranking official to be sentenced this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fang was expelled from the Communist Party and stripped of his rank in October ahead of his court-martial, more than a year after dropping out of view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A brief report Wednesday by the official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/\" target=_blank>Xinhua News Agency<\/a> gave no details of the accusations against him.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a 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