Former ICBC discipline chief sentenced for bribery

JINAN, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese court on Tuesday sentenced Liu Lixian, the former head of the discipline inspection commission at the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), one of the country's major national banks, to eight years in prison for bribery charges.

Liu was found to have accepted bribes worth over 17.76 million yuan (about 2.5 million U.S. dollars), according to a verdict issued by a co