Two former Chinese soccer heads were sentenced on June 13 to 10 and a half years in prison for taking bribes, marking the culmination of a campaign to eliminate graft in the Chinese professional soccer leagues, which had been afflicted with match-fixing, gambling and other illicit behavior.
Xie Yalong, former deputy chief of China's football association, and his successor Nan Yong, were each fined 200,000 yuan.