Beijing Adult Entertainment: China jails lawyer accused of advising mafia defendant to lie
Beijing – A Chinese court sentenced a prominent lawyer to two and a half years in prison for giving false evidence on Friday, after a defendant in a major organized crime case accused the lawyer of having advised him to lie. The Jiangbei district court in Chongqing city found Li Zhuang guilty of “giving false evidence and inciting others to bear false witness,” the official Xinhua news agency reported.
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Beijing-based Li also incited local lawyer Wu Jiayou to bribe a police officer “in order to make the policeman to give false evidence of the fabricated allegation of torture against Gong,” the agency quoted the prosecutors as saying.
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Before the crackdown, Chongqing was reportedly one of China’s biggest centres for weapons trafficking, while the gangs also controlled prostitution, gambling, drugs, entertainment and many local businesses, including one city bus company.
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