Shanghai Automotive Group Corporation former Vice President Chen Demei was sentenced to twelve years in the first instance.

The reporter learned from the First Intermediate People's Court of Shanghai that on the 24th, the court publicly sentenced former vice president of Shanghai Automotive Group Co., Ltd., Chen Demei, for accepting bribes and illegally profiting for relatives and friends. The defendant Chen Demei was sentenced to eleven years and six months in prison for bribery, and fined three million yuan; sentenced to one year and six months in prison for illegal profiteering for relatives and friends, and fined five hundred thousand yuan. It was decided to execute a 12-year prison sentence and fined three million five hundred thousand yuan; the illegally obtained property and its proceeds were confiscated and turned over to the national treasury.