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Former PetroChina chairman Jiang Jiemin sentenced to 16 years in prison - state TV

BEIJING (Reuters) - The former chairman of China National Petroleum Corporation and its listed firm PetroChina <601857.SS><0857.HK> has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for graft, Chinese state television said on Monday.

Jiang Jiemin was a close associate of Zhou Yongkang, the once-powerful domestic security chief and member of the elite Politburo Standing Committee, the most senior person to have been charged with corruption.

(Reporting By Adam Rose and Judy Hua; Editing by Kim Coghill)

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