The former chairman of the Chinese Football Association has been sentenced to life in prison for accepting bribes worth $11 million, state media said Tuesday, as a string of sports officials were jailed for corruption.Under President Xi Jinping a sweeping crackdown on official graft has struck hard at China’s sports industry, especially football.
Former chairman Chen Xuyuan took advantage of his positions at the CFA and other bodies to “illegally accept sums of money from other people totalling 81.03 million yuan ”, the Communist Party-run People’s Daily newspaper said. That ambition appears further away than ever after the corruption probe and years of disappointing results on the pitch.
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