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Prison guards jailed for favoring tycoon inmate

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Aug. 11 - Four prison officials in Shanghai have been jailed for taking bribes¹ and providing preferential treatment to Zhou Zhengyi, a convicted property tycoon², local courts said Friday.

Zhou Zhengyi, former president of Shanghai-based property firm Nongkai　Development Group, had been charged and convicted for fraud and stock manipulation.

Zhou was arrested and put into the Shanghai Detention³ House on May. 26, 2003, which keeps prisoners awaiting trial. He was transferred to the Shanghai Tilanqiao Prison on June. 26, 2004, after being sentenced on June 1, 2004 to a three-year jail term.

The Shanghai No. 2 People's Court heard that Huang Jian, former director of the detention house, has taken 400,000 yuan of bribes (about 52,600 U.S. dollars) in return for preferential treatment to Zhou. The court sentenced Huang to 11 years in prison, and sentenced his wife to three years in prison for collusion, but gave her a three year reprieve⁴.

The court also gave jail terms to two other prison officials who took bribes and offered convenience to Zhou in the prison. Wang Zhengming, director of the prison affairs department of the Shanghai Prison Administration, was given two years of imprisonment⁵ and two years reprieve, for taking 41,000 yuan (about 5,400 U.S. dollars) of bribes from people related to Zhou.

Yu Jinbao, a supervisor⁶ in the Shanghai Tilanqiao prison, was sentenced to two years in prison.

The court said Yu had helped his wife to sign a contract to decorate the house of one of Zhou's relatives. Yu had also written more than 200 letters to try to get Zhou's sentence commuted⁷, it said.

Fu Kehu, another supervisor in the prison who was tried in the Shanghai Hongkou District People's Court, was jailed for two years for accepting a car worth 77,000 yuan from people related to Zhou.

Zhou, 45 and also known as Chau Ching-ngai, started business as a teenager in a wonton noodle shop. In 2002, Forbes estimated Zhou's wealth at about 320 million　U.S. dollars.

In January this year, Zhou was re-arrested on charges of bribery⁸ and forging VAT⁹ receipts, just months after being released from prison in May, last year.

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1 bribes
n.贿赂( bribe的名词复数 )；向（某人）行贿，贿赂v.贿赂( bribe的第三人称单数 )；向（某人）行贿，贿赂
参考例句：
It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。 corrupt officials accepting bribes 接受贿赂的贪官污吏

2 tycoon
n.有钱有势的企业家，大亨
参考例句：
The tycoon is on the verge of bankruptcy.那名大亨濒临破产的边缘。 The tycoon has many servants to minister to his needs.那位大亨有很多人服侍他。

3 detention
n.滞留，停留；拘留，扣留；(教育)留下
参考例句：
He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。 He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。

4 reprieve
n.暂缓执行（死刑）；v.缓期执行；给…带来缓解
参考例句：
He was saved from the gallows by a lastminute reprieve.最后一刻的缓刑令把他从绞架上解救了下来。 The railway line, due for closure, has been granted a six-month reprieve.本应停运的铁路线获准多运行6 个月。

5 imprisonment
n.关押，监禁，坐牢
参考例句：
His sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment.他的判决由死刑减为无期徒刑。 He was sentenced to one year's imprisonment for committing bigamy.他因为犯重婚罪被判入狱一年。

6 supervisor
n.监督人，管理人，检查员，督学，主管，导师
参考例句：
Between you and me I think that new supervisor is a twit.我们私下说，我认为新来的主管人是一个傻瓜。 He said I was too flighty to be a good supervisor.他说我太轻浮不能成为一名好的管理员。

7 commuted
通勤( commute的过去式和过去分词 )；减（刑）；代偿
参考例句：
His sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment. 他的判决由死刑减为无期徒刑。 The death sentence may be commuted to life imprisonment. 死刑可能減为无期徒刑。

8 bribery
n.贿络行为，行贿，受贿
参考例句：
FBI found out that the senator committed bribery.美国联邦调查局查明这个参议员有受贿行为。 He was charged with bribery.他被指控受贿。

9 vat
n.(=value added tax)增值税，大桶
参考例句：
The office is asking for the vat papers.办事处要有关增值税的文件。 His father emptied sacks of stale rye bread into the vat.他父亲把一袋袋发霉的黑面包倒进大桶里。

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