CHINA EXECUTES 2 FOR GRAFT

two mafia figures were executed as part of a huge crackdown on graft and organised crime in Chonqing in southwest China. Gang leader Yue Cun was sentenced to death in February, 2010, for murder, intentional injury, extortion, illegal trade in firearms and ammunition and other crimes, the official China News Service said. Yin Zhiwei, who was part of Yue's criminal group, was also executed.