China Jails 2 Officials on Corruption Charges

China convicted two senior officials on corruption charges Monday, sentencing them each to more than a dozen years in jail, as part of Beijing's sweeping anti-graft campaign. Jiang Jiemin, former chairman of the state-run China National Petroleum Corp., was charged with accepting $2.3 million in bribes and failed to explain the source of another 15 million yuan, according to a court in Hanjiang in the central province of Hubei. Jiang also violated regulations by providing...

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