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Former senior Chinese official jailed for 12 years for graft - CCTV


    BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court has sentenced a former top aide to the country's disgraced security chief Zhou Yongkang to 12 years in prison for corruption, state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) reported via its official microblog on Tuesday.

    Li Chongxi, once the top political adviser in the southwestern province of Sichuan, one of Zhou's old strongholds, was indicted on corruption charges in April. He is among a slew of former Zhou allies to face punishment for graft amid a sweeping anti-corruption campaign by the ruling Communist Party's leadership.

    (Reporting By Megha Rajagopalan and Ben Blanchard; Editing by Shri Navaratnam)