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Chinese Officials Gamble Away $3 Million in Casinos
Submitted by William Muller on Mon, 2009-01-12 17:00
"Mr Wu was handed a four-year jail term for embezzling large sums of public money to finance his gambling habit, the state-run China Daily newspaper reported....Ironically, Mr Wu had carried out several operations against gambling, pornography and drugs.
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