DANDONG, Northeast China - A batch of former Chinese soccer referees including Lu Jun, Huang Junjie and Zhou Weixin were sentenced in prison for accepting bribes by a northeast Chinese court on Thursday.

China's former top soccer referee "Golden Whistle" Lu Jun, who was a 2002 World Cup referee, was sentenced to five and a half years in jail for accepting bribes for match-fixing.

Huang Junjie was sentenced to seven years in prison for accepting bribes as non-state staff and confiscation of his personal property worth 200,000 yuan ($31,760) by the court in the first instance.

Huang used to be one of the best-known soccer referees in China. He had a more than 20-year-long career as a referee and was certified as an international level referee in 1998.

Former soccer referee Zhou Weixin was sentenced to three years and six months in prison for accepting bribes as non-state staff.

The court has deliverd first verdict on graft charges of five former soccer referees.

【新聞快訊】

2月16日，丹東中級(jí)人民法院對(duì)中國足壇反賭案部分涉案人員進(jìn)行首批的一審宣判，黃俊杰、陸俊、周偉新、萬大雪等首批受審人員審判結(jié)果已公布。上述涉案人員也將轉(zhuǎn)入監(jiān)獄正式進(jìn)入服刑期。

遼寧省丹東市中級(jí)人民法院作出一審宣判，判處前足壇“金哨” 陸俊有期徒刑5年零6個(gè)月，罰金10萬，沒收非法所得78萬；黃俊杰因非國家工作人員受賄罪，被判處有期徒刑7年，罰金20萬，并追繳全部賄金；判處周偉新犯非國家工作人員受賄罪處以3年有期徒刑，犯非國家工作人員行賄罪處以1年有期徒刑，決定執(zhí)行有期徒刑3年6個(gè)月；判處原中超公司總經(jīng)理呂鋒犯非國家工作人員受賄罪及行賄罪，處以有期徒刑6年零6個(gè)月。罰金15萬人民幣。而某涉案公司被判處罰金300萬元。