Hengfeng Bank Ex-Chairman Sentenced to Death With Two-Year Reprieve

Hengfeng Bank Ex-Chairman Sentenced to Death With Two-Year Reprieve
Residents and visitors look at illuminated buildings in Qingdao in China's eastern Shandong Province on May 26, 2018. AFP via Getty Images
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BEIJING—The former chairman of China’s troubled Hengfeng Bank was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve, a local court said on Dec. 26.

Jiang Xiyun, who served as chairman of Hengfeng Bank from 2008 to 2013, was convicted of corruption, receiving bribes, illegally issuing financial notes, and illegally destroying accounting vouchers and accounting books, according to the Yantai Intermediate People’s Court.