Former Mayor of Wuhan Who Managed the First Covid Outbreak Is Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison
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Zhou Xiangwang, the former mayor of Wuhan, where the first cases of the Covid-19 pandemic were reported, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for accepting bribes worth 60.5 million yuan ($9 million) in cash and real estate between 2003 and 2025.
Zhou Xianwang was found guilty of corruption for accepting bribes worth more than 7 million euros. The first citizen of the place from which began the diffusion of the coronavirus in 2020 had become the public face of the errors committed during the phase...
The sentence states that Zhou "used" his various positions to assist organizations and individuals in matters such as project hiring, corporate management and administrative approval, and received money and goods in return.
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A Chinese court sentenced Zhou Xianwang, former mayor of the city of Wuhan during the first known outbreak of covid-19, to fourteen years in prison, for accepting bribes, state media reported. Zhou was also fined 5 million yuan (about $747,144) for his crimes, according to a verdict issued on Saturday by the Shangqiu Intermediate People's Court in central Henan province, and collected by official agency Xinhua.
Zhou Xiangwang, the then mayor of Wuhan, the city where the first cases of Covid-19 were reported in China, was sentenced to 14 years in prison in a trial where he was charged with corruption.
Zhou Xianwang has also been fined 5 million yuan – about $747,144 – for accepting bribes
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