China football ex-chiefs jailed

Lu Jun, the man who was once China's top football referee, is sentenced to five-and-a-half years in jail for taking bribes to fix matches.

Chinese police have detained three more former top football officials -- including a one-time head of the national association -- in a widening gambling and match-fixing probe, state press said Tuesday.Former Chinese Football Association chief Xie Yalong was taken into police custody last week for questioning along with a former top Team China official and a CFA official who headed the referee commission, the Beijing News said.China's professional leagues have been plagued with allegations of gambling, match-fixing and crooked referees for years.

SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean court jailed the head of the Hanwha Group conglomerate, one of the country's largest, for four years on Thursday and sent him directly to jail, an unusual move in a country where top business leaders rarely serve jail time.

Two former high-ranking Chinese football officials have been handed 10-and-a-half-year jail terms for bribery in a widespread crackdown on corruption.

Former CIA officer John Kiriakou on Friday was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for leaking the name of a secret agent implicated in harsh interrogations of Al-Qaeda suspects. Kiriakou, 47, pleaded guilty in October before a federal court as part of a plea bargain to avoid trial, acknowledging he had knowingly disclosed the name of the agent, who was working under cover at the time, to a freelance writer.

A South Korean court jailed the head of the Hanwha Group conglomerate, one of the country's largest, for four years on Thursday and sent him directly to jail, an unusual move in a country where top business ...