Four former Chinese national team players were found guilty of taking bribes and sentenced at least five and a half years in prison on Wednesday.
Shen Si, who, along with Qi Hong, Jiang Jin and Li Ming, fixed a Chinese league game, was sentenced to six years in prison and fined 500,000 yuan (78,500 US dollars).
Qi, Jiang and Li received a 5-1/2 years sentence and was each fined 500,000 yuan.
The court confiscated a total of 8 million yuan (1.27 million US dollars) taken by the four as bribes.
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