(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Bo Xilai, Former Secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and a former member of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Sunday for bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power.
He was deprived of political rights for life.
The Jinan Intermediate People's Court in east China's Shandong Province announced the verdict.
Bo also became the highest-level politician convicted for corruption under China's leader Xi Jinping, who has staked his reputation on combatting graft within the Communist Party.
"I think the point is that Xi wanted to punish Bo Xilai for daring to go against the party's arrangements," said Willy Lam, an expert on party politics at Chinese University in Hong Kong.
"He was punished for his disobedience and defiance.
" The court sentenced Bo to life in prison on the bribery charges, 15 years for embezzlement and seven years for abuse of power.
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