the verdicts in a trial of three former executives of Yunnan Copper Group were announced in China, with former deputy manager Yu Weiping receiving the death sentence for his role in a corruption scandal

the verdicts in a trial of three former executives of Yunnan Copper Group were announced in China, with former deputy manager Yu Weiping receiving the death sentence for his role in a corruption scandal. Yu was ordered to die by the Kunming Intermediate People's Court for reportedly accepting bribes totalling more than US$4 million and embezzling more than 41 million yuan at Yunnan Copper. Yu also reportedly misappropriated 27 million yuan in company funds, which he lent to others. Yu's former boss Zou Shaolu, who had served as Yunnan Copper's general manager, was found guilty of taking more than 19 million in bribes between 2003 and 2007. Zou was reportedly spared execution because he had turned himself in to authorities. Wang Jianwei, a former general manager of a Yunnan Copper-affiliated property company was given 20 years in jail for allegedly accepting more than four million yuan in bribes.