GOME said that Zhang was joining the board as a non-executive director and also named accountant Conway Lee as an independent non-executive director. Huang's imprisonment marked a spectacular fall from grace in a case that also ensnared several top Chinese police officials. He has stepped down from the board but remains the company's single biggest shareholder. Beijing's High Court freed Huang's wife, Du Juan, on parole in August after commuting her three-year prison term for insider trading, but upheld his sentence. Huang was also fined 800 million yuan (US$120 million). Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2011