BEIJING, May 7 (Reuters) – Former Chinese defense ministers Wei Fenghe and Li Shangfu were both sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve over graft charges, state media Xinhua reported on Thursday.
The two men were expelled from the ruling Communist Party in 2024 for “serious violations of discipline”, a euphemism for corruption. A death sentence with reprieve in China is typically commuted to life imprisonment if the offender commits no crimes during the period of reprieve.
(Reporting by Beijing NewsroomEditing by Peter Graff)
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