18:48, 24 April 2009 | GMT +5
China post official gets death for stealing $190 mln
GUANGZHOU. April 24. KAZINFORM A southern China post office director was sentenced to death Friday for siphoning more than 1.3 billion yuan (190 million U.S. dollars) from customers to help payoff her gambling debts, local court said, Kazinform refers to Xinhua.

He Liqiong, 45, a former manager of Chancheng District post office in Foshan City, Guangdong Province, amassed the huge amount of money between 2003 and 2006 by siphoning cash from 198 depositors at her branch, according to the verdict of the first trial at the Foshan Intermediate People's Court.
He was the leader of a crime ring that embezzled the deposits of creditors for use in gambling.
She was arrested in August 2006 for hiring someone to stab three people. Two of the victims, surnamed Guo and Huo, were members of her crime ring who had disputes with He regarding debt interests. They were only slightly injured in the attack.
A Foshan post official surnamed Zhou, who was a co-worker with whom He argued, was seriously injured.
He's accomplice, Chen Qili, former director of Lanshi Township post office, received life imprisonment for illegally absorbing savings.
He Liqiong appealed at the court, Kazinform cites Xinhua. See www.chinaview.cn for full version.