Shanghai vice mayor loses job over ‘discipline offenses’
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A SHANGHAI vice mayor has been removed from office and expelled from the Communist Party for “serious discipline offenses,” the Party’s anti-corruption watchdog said yesterday.
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said Ai Baojun’s misdeeds included accepting gifts and money as well as abusing his position to benefit himself and others.
It said Ai violated Party discipline by seeking benefits for his relatives’ businesses, visiting private clubs and playing golf, as well as “trading power for sex.”
His illicit earnings have been confiscated and his case transferred to judicial organs, the anti-graft commission said.
When an investigation was launched on November 10 last year, the 55-year-old became the most senior Shanghai official to be investigated for corruption since Chen Liangyu, then Party chief, was jailed for 18 years for bribery in 2008.
Ai, who is a former member of the standing Committee of the Party’s Shanghai Committee, is also accused of failing to cooperate with the investigation.
Ai was previously director of the Shanghai FTZ, China’s first free trade zone set up in 2013 with the aim of being a testing ground for economic and governance reforms.
He had been one of several Shanghai vice mayors since 2007, holding the portfolio for development and planning.
The anti-graft commission said that Ai did not cease his wrongdoings even after the 18th National Congress of the Party in 2012 when Xi Jinping, newly elected general secretary of the Party’s Central Committee, highlighted the problem of corrupt officials.
Ai, from northeast China’s Liaoning Province, began his career in 1983 as an accountant at the former Northeastern University of Technology.
He joined Shanghai Baosteel Group in 1994, serving in various roles, including vice director of the financial department and chairman of Baoshan Iron & Steel Co, before he became vice mayor in 2007.
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