BEIJING (Reuters) – China sentenced an influential former property executive and critic of President Xi Jinping to 18 years in prison for corruption, a court said on Tuesday.
Ren Zhiqiang, the former chairman of Huayuan, a state-owned real estate group, was also fined 4.2 million yuan, Beijing No. 2 Intermediate Court said on its website.
(Reporting by Yew Lun Tian; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
