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Former Cyberczar Sentenced to 14 Years for Corruption

State news agency Xinhua reported on Tuesday that former "Cyberczar" and senior propaganda official Lu Wei has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for accepting bribes: Lu Wei, former deputy head of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, was handed a 14-year jail term plus a fine of 3 million yuan (about 450,000 U.S. dollars) for taking bribes, the Ningbo Municipal Intermediate People’s Court ruled on Tuesday.