Former CNPC Head Linked to Zhou Goes on Trial for Graft
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The former chairman of China’s biggest oil producer pleaded guilty to accepting bribes and abuse of power in his one-day trial, the first major court case former security chief Zhou Yongkang has been named in.
Jiang Jiemin, who headed the country’s state-owned assets overseer after leading China National Petroleum Corp., confessed to his crimes on Monday and apologized, according to a post on the microblog of the Hanjiang Intermediate People’s Court in Hubei. The verdict will be announced later.