BEIJING — Chinese court officials have found Wang Lijun, a former police chief, guilty of four criminal charges after he fled to a United States Consulate last February and told diplomats there that the wife of a senior politician had murdered a British businessman, according to a report on Monday by Xinhua, the state news agency.
Baghdadi is the main witness against Dizaei, but the jury in February decided it believed the word of a convicted fraudster over that of a Scotland Yard commander, as it unanimously found the police chief guilty of arresting and framing a man in a row over money.
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He pronounced the chief not guilty and let him go.
The court had nullified the verdict of a parliamentary panel that had found the chief justice guilty of financial irregularities.
In January, Andrew Fastow, Enron's former finance chief, pleaded guilty to fraud, and has since been sentenced to a ten-year term.
ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio — An Ohio police chief pleaded guilty Thursday to a reduced charge in a case in which another chief was convicted of stealing items from the home of a surrogate mother for the movie stars Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker.
The government has to prove only that there is a criminal syndicate, that so-and-so is involved, that his underlings have committed such-and-such crimes, and the chief is guilty.
Michael J. Resnick, the company's ex-finance chief, pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges last September and was sentenced in December to six months' home detention and three years' probation.
Meanwhile, Scott Sullivan, WorldCom's former finance chief, pleaded guilty to similar charges and could face a lengthy spell in prison.See articleRichard Scrushy, a former CEO of HealthSouth awaiting trial on charges relating to a $2.7 billion accounting fraud at the firm, mounted an unusual defence.
