Ding Yuxin the billionaire chairwoman of Boyou Investment Management Corp, confessed to bribing the then Chinese railways minister Liu Zhijun (pictured) huge sums of money in return for contracts and introductions. Between 2008-10, she confessed to the court that she'd won around 49 million yuan ($27 billion/£22.8m) in lucrative contracts from Zhijun. In 2014, she was sentenced to 20 years in prison, fined $404 million (£340.3m) and had personal property confiscated.
Liu Zhijun fared even worse for accepting the bribes. He was sentenced to death, with a two-year reprieve, for the crimes of bribery and abuse of power. Suspended death sentences in China don't tend to mean death and are usually commuted to life imprisonment. Liu is still likely to spend at least 10 years in jail.