Xu Fang/Shanghai Daily news

Zhu Yaoming, once a high-flying stock trader, was sentenced to two and a half years yesterday for manipulating share prices, which brought his total term of imprisonment to more than 16 years.

The Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People's Court also fined Zhu, 52, a Jiangsu Province native, 100,000 yuan (US$14,524) for the crime.