Update | Two top allies of China’s disgraced security tsar Zhou Yongkang jailed for corruption

Two top allies of China's disgraced former security tsar Zhou Yongkang have been sentenced to jail terms of 16 and 13 years for corruption.

Jiang Jiemin, who used to chair the state-run China National Petroleum Corporation and later oversaw state-owned firms, received 16 years’ jail while Sichuan province’s former deputy party chief Li Chuncheng was given a 13-year sentence. Both had turned in the bribes they received, and were fined 1 million yuan (HK$1.2 million) each.

Jiang, who received his verdict on Monday in a court in Hanjiang, Hubei province, would not appeal the sentence, according to the court. He had been charged with taking bribes, possessing a large amount of assets from unidentified sources, and abusing his position at a state-owned enterprise.

The former CNPC chairman, either directly or through his wife, received bribes worth about 14 million yuan from 14 sources between 2004 and 2013, the court said. It also ruled that Jiang had, under Zhou’s instruction or suggestion, helped others run businesses that led to “particularly heavy losses of state interest”.

The court said it gave Jiang a lesser punishment because he confessed his crimes, volunteered information about abuse of power by other employees in state-owned firms, and turned in all the bribes he had taken.

Jiang was chairman of CNPC, the parent company of PetroChina, Asia’s biggest oil producer, before being appointed in 2013 to the cabinet body that oversees China's biggest state-owned companies.