Five officials and businessmen from the Chinese capital...

Five officials and businessmen from the Chinese capital were sentenced to death for embezzling public funds. Bai Hua, the manager of City Cooperative Bank, was found guilty of embezzling 430,000 dollars, and Zou Lei, 22, an accountant for a pharmaceutical company, of embezzling 192,000 dollars. Liu Yixia and her husband, Li Shaoyang, were found guilty of using false invoices to obtain one million dollars. Wang Jin, manager of the Tepu Guangdian New Technological Company, convicted of embezzling 121,000 dollars, was sentenced to death but given a two-year reprieve.