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Heroin traders given death, life imprisonment

Ma Xiuqin, a woman from northwest China's Gansu Province was sentenced to death and her accomplice, a woman also from Gansu, given life imprisonment in Beijing on Sunday on charges of trading in narcotics.

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Ma Xiuqin, a woman from northwest China's Gansu Province was sentenced to death and her accomplice, a woman also from Gansu, given life imprisonment in Beijing on Jan. 18 on charges of trading in narcotics.

The ruling was handed down against Ma Xiuqin, a 31-year-old heroin trader, and her accomplice, Zhang Ganiang, 32, by the No.1 Intermediate People's Court of Beijing at the first trial.

The court was told that Ma came to Beijing in late 2002 and hid plenty of heroin for sale at the apartment she rented in Beijing's downtown Xuanwu District. She sold 20 kg of narcotics in June last year alone, remitted 3 million yuan (one US dollar equals to 8.3 yuan) from the sale back to the kingpin in Gansu and got 30,000 yuan of bonus in return.

Zhang, who was previously sentenced to a five-year jail term for narcotics trafficking in Gansu, did the leg work for Ma. Whenever Ma called her, Zhang would go pick up the drugs and deliver them to the buyers at the designated venues.

Acting on tips, the police detained both Ma and Zhang on July 1,2003, and confiscated 13.2 kg of heroin, the largest amount ever seized in Beijing since New China was founded in 1949, plus more than 120,000 yuan from the flats rented by Ma.

In accordance with Sunday's ruling, both Ma and Zhang were deprived of their political rights and all their personal properties.

Source: Xinhua

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