Fang Fuming, a Chinese-American who was found guilty of illegally obtaining state secrets and bribing state workers, was sentenced to five years imprisonment Thursday in Beijing.
The ruling was handed down by Beijing Number One Intermediate People's Court. In accordance with the ruling, Fang will also be deported from China.
The court had heard that Fang used to be an executive board member and manager of a Hong Kong based company.
From 1995 to 1999, in order to help foreign investors for whom he acted as agent in tendering for China's major power construction projects, Fang illegally obtained 35 documents containing state secrets and gave US$245,000 in bribes to state workers.
(China Daily March 22, 2002)
