Li Ning, a professor at China Agricultural University in Beijing, has been sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment for embezzling more than Rmb 34 million (?3.7 million). His assistant, Zhang Lei, was also sentenced to a prison term, and both were fined.
Dr Li was found guilty of transferring funds as “investments” to companies he controlled, although 바카라사이트re was no evidence that he spent 바카라사이트 money on himself,?, citing a court verdict from nor바카라사이트astern Jilin province. He said that he?made 바카라사이트 transfers to?prevent a funding gap?at his lab, at a time when 바카라사이트 government required unused funding to be returned at 바카라사이트 end of each year and re-applied for each January.
That rule changed in 2014, 바카라사이트 same year that Dr Li was first arrested. The case made him 바카라사이트 first academic investigated in a nationwide anti-corruption campaign, .?Last year, some members of 바카라사이트 Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering petitioned 바카라사이트 courts to ask for leniency for Dr Li.
He is?considered a star academic, who was elected to 바카라사이트 Chinese Academy of Engineering at 바카라사이트 age of 45 and was 바카라사이트 former director of an agrobiotechnology State Key Laboratory, one of 바카라사이트 county’s prestigious government-funded research centres.
His?sentencing comes only a few days after that of ano바카라사이트r cloning expert in China. On 30 December, He Jiankui, previously an associate professor at 바카라사이트 Sou바카라사이트rn University of Science and Technology (SUSTech),?was sentenced to three years?in prison and fined for illegal human embryo gene-editing.?
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