Beijing (CNN)China has sentenced the country’s former internet czar and top censor to 14 years in prison, after he was found guilty of corruption, a court statement said Tuesday.
Lu Wei, who once headed the country’s powerful cyberspace administration, had accepted bribes worth more than 32 million yuan ($4.8 million) from 2002 to 2017, according to the Ningbo Intermediate People’s Court in eastern China.
Lu, 59, was charged in July 2018. He said he would not appeal the verdict.
