BEIJING: The former vice president of China's highest court was jailed Thursday for taking more than $16 million in bribes, the most senior judicial official ever convicted in a high-profile anti-graft drive.

Xi Xiaoming, 62, was found guilty of taking the bribes in exchange for "assisting individuals and organizations with their cases and companies with their entry into the market," according to a statement on the website of the Secondary Intermediate People's Court of Tianjin.

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