{"id":8540,"date":"2006-07-25T08:34:22","date_gmt":"2006-07-25T15:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/07\/25\/report-former-beijing-mayor-paroled-ap\/"},"modified":"2006-07-25T08:34:22","modified_gmt":"2006-07-25T15:34:22","slug":"report-former-beijing-mayor-paroled-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/07\/report-former-beijing-mayor-paroled-ap\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Former Beijing mayor paroled – AP"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n<\/a> From AP, via seattlepi.nwsource.com:\n<\/p>\n \nFormer Beijing Mayor Chen Xitong, the highest-ranking Communist Party figure to be jailed for corruption, has been released on medical parole after serving eight years of his sentence, a Hong Kong newspaper reported Monday.<\/p>\n Chen, once one of China’s most powerful men as a member of the party’s ruling Politburo, was accused of helping loot the capital’s treasury of up to $2 billion in a case that came to symbolize high-level graft. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison.<\/p>\n Chen, 76, was recently released to a Chinese military hospital for treatment of an unspecified illness, The South China Morning Post said, citing friends of the former mayor. [Full Text]<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n