Hong Kong(CNN) A military court in China on Monday sentenced former top official Guo Boxiong to life in prison for accepting bribes, according to state media.
"His personal assets were seized, and all his illicit gains were confiscated and turned over to the state treasury," state-run news agency Xinhua reported.
Guo was a vice chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), which runs the People's Liberation Army, the world's largest standing army.
The court stripped Guo of his rank as general and deprived him of political rights for life, according to Xinhua.
China's corruption crackdown nets more victims
A Chinese court in the northern city of Tianjin sentenced a former vice minister of public security to 15 years in prison for corruption, state media reported Tuesday, January 12. Li Dongsheng, 60, was charged with taking almost 22 million yuan ($3.3 million) in bribes from 2007 to 2013. He was a protégé of disgraced former domestic security czar Zhou Yongkang, who was
sentenced to life in prison in June 2015 for corruption offenses.
Jiang Jiemin, who once headed China's biggest oil company, was handed a 16-year jail term for bribery, abuse of power and possessing assets from unidentified sources on October 12, 2015.
Li Chuncheng, a former high-ranking official in Sichuan province, was sentenced to 13 years in jail for bribery and abuse of power. Both Li and Jiang were reported to have close ties to Zhou Yongkang, the highest-ranking Chinese official to fall foul of President Xi Jinping's corruption campaign so far.
Communist Party investigators have accused Ling Jihua, 58, once a top aide to former President Hu Jintao, of accepting huge bribes, stealing party and state secrets, as well as keeping mistresses and trading power for sex.
China
sacked one of its top sporting officials on July 16 because he's under investigation over allegations of corruption. Xiao Tian has been removed from his post as the deputy director of the General Administration of Sport (GAS). He's also a vice chairman of China's national Olympic committee, and was often its public face.
Xu Caihou was the most senior military figure caught up in the corruption dragnet. However, the former People's Liberation Army general didn't face prosecution because of ill health and died of bladder cancer in March 2015. His rank was revoked after an investigation found he took bribes to facilitate promotions. Local media reports said the
general had so much cash stashed away at his home that it took a week to count, and 12 trucks to haul it away.
Liu Han, a mining tycoon found guilty of murder and running a "mafia-style" organization, wasn't strictly a corrupt official but his conviction shed light on his links to a top target of Xi's anti-corruption campaign -- Zhou Yongkang.
A former member of China's all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee,
Zhou Yongkang is now serving a life sentence for corruption and other crimes. He was tried in secret in May 2015 and sentenced to life in prison in June. He's the highest ranking official to fall victim to Xi's graft crackdown.
Once a rising star of the Chinese Communist Party,
Bo Xilai fell from power in an explosive scandal involving murder, betrayal and financial skullduggery. Bo pleaded not guilty and challenged the prosecution's case in a rare public trial. He was jailed for taking bribes, embezzlement and abuse of power. His career unraveled after his wife, Gu Kailai, poisoned a British businessman, and his right-hand man, Wang Lijun, fled to the U.S. consulate in Chengdu.
'Vile impact'
Guo's trial was conducted behind close doors as "military secrets" were involved. The former general pleaded guilty and did not appeal the sentence, Xinhua said.
Communist Party investigators began probing allegations against Guo in April 2015, as part of President Xi Jinping's wider crackdown on graft and corruption.
"His acts seriously violated Party discipline and left a vile impact," the Party said in a statement at the time.
Guo was the second former military leader to be caught in the anti-corruption campaign. General Xu Caihou, another former vice chairman of the Central Military Commission who served alongside Guo was expelled from the Party in 2014.