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The chairman of the photovoltaic panel company was sentenced to suspended death sentence

BEIJING (Reuters) -A Chinese court handed Zhao Weiguo, the former chairman of semiconductor firm Tsinghua Unigroup, a suspended death sentence on Wednesday after he was found guilty of corruption and embezzlement, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Wednesday. China on Wednesday handed a suspended death sentence to the former head of a major state-owned maker of high-end semiconductors. . On May 14, a Chinese court handed a suspended death sentence to the former chairman of state-owned chip conglomerate Tsinghua Unigroup. Zhao Weiguo (pictured) was convicted of abusing power, illegally acquiring state assets and arranging improper transactions and the Intermediate People's Court in the northeastern city of Jilin. . FILE PHOTO: Tsinghua Unigroup's Chairman Zhao Weiguo speaks at an interview with Reuters at his office in Beijing, China, November 15, 2015. (Reporting by Beijing Newsroom, Editing by Louise Heavens). .