04-01-2017 01:36 via uk.news.yahoo.com

China jails former drug regulatory official for taking bribes - state media

A former official with the China Food and Drug Administration has been jailed for taking bribes from vaccine manufacturers who wanted help with gaining approval for their drugs, the state-owned Legal Evening News newspaper reported on Tuesday. Yin Hongzhang, the former deputy director of the regulator's drug testing centre, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined 500,000 yuan ($71,864.89), the newspaper said. The newspaper said Yin and his family accepted 3.56 million yuan ($511,678.05) in
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