Energy official in graft probe dismissed
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A SENIOR energy official has been removed from his post five days after prosecutors announced a corruption probe against him, the Party’s organization department announced yesterday.
Xu Yongsheng, 48, is the youngest deputy director of the National Energy Administration.
Xu was highly thought of by Liu Tienan, who led the administration from December 2012 to March 2013. In May last year, Liu was dismissed from his post as the vice chairman at the National Development and Reform Commission, following which Xu was investigated as well, the 21st Century Business Herald reported.
Liu was under judicial investigation from August last year for “seeking benefits” for his relatives and accepting cash and gifts. He was also “morally degenerate,” according to the Party’s disciplinary watchdog.
Compulsory measures
Xu was one of the four national energy administration officials being investigated for taking bribes.
On May 23, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate said “compulsory measures” have been taken against Xu and Wang Jun, head of the administration’s renewable energy department.
That was two days after prosecutors put Hao Weiping, head of the administration’s nuclear power department, and Wei Pengyuan, vice director of the administration’s coal department, under investigation.
Sources said investigators have seized more than 100 million yuan (US$16.1 million) in cash at Wei’s home. There was so much cash that it took 16 bill counters to calculate the money and four machines burnt out in the process, caixin.com reported.
Hao reportedly was detained with his wife at Beijing airport as they tried to leave the country in April.
Xu, Hao and Wang had worked as senior officials in the former state planning commission after 1998.
The Economic Information said 21 senior officials from China’s energy sector are being investigated since January.
Huge profits drove them to abuse their powers in approving contracts and projects worth multi-billion yuan, it was revealed.
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