Former Chinese securities regulator deputy chief sentenced to 18 years in jail for bribery, insider trading
By Dong Feng
People's Daily app
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Yao Gang, former vice chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, was sentenced 18 years in prison by the Intermediate People's Court of Handan in north China's Hebei Province Friday.

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Yao was sentenced to 15 years in prison for accepting bribes, and fined 7 million yuan ($1.01 million), sentenced to six years in prison for insider trading, and fined 4 million yuan. Final execution adds to a prison term of 18 years, and fined 11 million yuan.

The property obtained from bribery, insider trading and its asphyxiation will be recovered and turned over to the state treasury.