Winny Wang/ Shanghai Daily news

A group of former senior officials and businessmen have been given jail terms ranging up to life for their involvement in Shanghai's pension fund scandal that pulled down the city's former Party chief, Chen Liangyu.

This follows the sentences on Sunday imposed on six others involved in the massive corruption scandal.

In a trial on Tuesday in the northeastern city of Changchun, Qin Yu, 43, former head of Shanghai's Baoshan District and a former secretary to Chen, was jailed for life after being convicted of taking bribes worth 6.8 million yuan (US$905,600). Qin also sought illegal profits for senior state company executives Han Guozhang, Wu Minglie and Zhang Rongkun from April 1998 to June 2006.