Li Quanqiang, former head of the volleyball administrative center under the State General Administration of Sport, was sentenced to ten years and three months in prison for bribery, a court in Jiangsu province announced on Monday.

The verdict was announced by the Yangzhou Intermediate People's Court in Jiangsu, which also fined him 800,000 yuan ($109,404). The illegal gains from his bribery crimes were confiscated and turned over to the national treasury, the court said.

Public information showed that Li, 62, a native of Liaoning province, had worked for the country's sports bodies for about four decades, serving as the head of the volleyball administrative center from February 2017 to August 2022.