Ex-head of Internet regulator under investigation
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THE former head of China’s Internet regulator is under investigation for suspected corruption, the discipline arm of the Communist Party of China said yesterday, the latest senior official to be caught up in a sweeping campaign against graft.
In a brief statement, the Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said Lu Wei was suspected of serious discipline breaches, using a common euphemism for graft. It provided no other details.
Appointed in 2014 as China’s top Internet regulator, Lu held high-profile meetings with top executives from foreign technology and Internet companies, including Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Lu worked his way up the ranks of China’s Xinhua news agency from a reporting job in the city of Guilin in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in the early 1990s to becoming the agency’s vice president from 2004 to 2011. He was vice mayor of Beijing from 2011 to 2013.
He ran the Internet regulator until June 2016, when another official took over.
Lu subsequently became a deputy head of the publicity department of the CPC.
President Xi Jinping has waged war against deep-rooted graft since taking office five years ago, jailing or meting out lesser punishments to hundreds of thousands of corrupt officials.
Lu is the most senior Chinese official to be investigated since the Party’s national congress closed late last month, at which Xi was elected to a second five-year term as Party chief.
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