Guo Boxiong

Guo Boxiong (born July 1942) is a former general of the People's Liberation Army. He served as the vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, China's top military council, between 2002 and 2012. During the same period he also held a seat in the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), China's top decision-making body. He was expelled from the CCP on 30 July 2015. On July 25, 2016, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for bribery.