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Peng Zhimin, Chinese Hilton Hotel Executive, Gets Life In Prison For Organized Crime

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First Posted: 05/04/11 09:38 AM ET Updated: 07/04/11 06:12 AM ET

AOL Travel News:

A top shareholder of the Hilton hotel in Chongqing, China was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for his connections with organized crime.

Peng Zhimin was convicted of bribery, prostitution, intentional injury, assault and other charges relating to organized crime, Agence France Presse reports.

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10:29 AM on 05/04/2011
So he wasn't an exec with Hilton then, just a shareholder in the owning company of a hotel that happened to be branded in the name of Hilton?!