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A wealthy Chinese businessman was sentenced to prison in China after he allegedly criticized President Xi Jinping for hiding the significance of coronavirus from the rest of the world, a court ruled Tuesday. Ren Zhiqiang, a retired real-estate tycoon who was born into the Chinese Communist Party’s ruling class, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for embezzling $16.3 million in public funds, among other crimes that caused supposedly bled the company he once owned of $17.2 million, CNN reported . Zhiqiang “voluntarily confessed all of his crimes,†the court’s judges said. Zhiqiang disappeared in March after he allegedly wrote...
