NEW DELHI: China’s former security chief, Zhou Yongkang, arrested on charges of corruption and leaking state secrets, could be handed a suspended death sentence, reports said on Sunday.

Zhou was arrested and expelled from the Communist Party of China over the weekend and charged with adultery, taking huge bribes and misusing his position.

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