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		</div><p>Two senior Chinese officials – one who led the country’s biggest oil company and the other a deputy party chief in populous Sichuan province – have been convicted of corruption and sentenced to 16 and 13 years in prison respectively.</p>
<p>Jiang Jiemin, former chairman of the state-run China National Petroleum Corporation, accepted 14 million yuan in bribes and failed to explain the source of another 15 million yuan, Hanjiang Intermediate People’s Court in central China said.</p>
<p>Jiang also violated regulations by providing assistance to others, resulting in losses to the state, the court said. It sentenced him to 16 years in prison.</p>
<p>Xianning Intermediate People’s Court, also in central China, said it convicted Li Chuncheng, a former deputy party chief for the south-western province of Sichuan, of corruption and sentenced him to 13 years in jail. The court said Li received nearly 40 million yuan in bribes.</p>
<p>Both Jiang and Li are considered associates of Zhou Yongkang, a former member of the all-powerful standing committee of the ruling Communist Party’s Politburo. Zhou has been convicted of corruption and is serving a life sentence in jail.</p>
<p>Before his retirement in 2012, Zhou oversaw China’s police and security apparatus and was a formidable politician. He built power bases not only in the police but also in Sichuan province and in the oil industry, where he worked for many years.</p>
<p>Both the Sichuan government and the state oil company were targets of a sweeping anti-corruption campaign that has netted top officials since Chinese president Xi Jinping came into power in late 2012.</p>
<p>Li was placed under investigation in late 2012. He was tried in April on charges of taking bribes and abusing power.</p>
<p>At first Jiang appeared to be unscathed because he was appointed to the cabinet body that oversees China’s biggest state-owned firms in 2013. But he was fired from the post later that year after he came under investigation.</p>
<p>Jiang was tried in April, also on charges of taking bribes and abusing power.</p>
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