Ex-police chief expelled from Party
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THE former police chief in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has been expelled from the Communist Party of China and put under criminal investigation, the Party’s discipline watchdog said yesterday.
Zhao Liping, 64, was detained by police on March 22 on suspicion of murdering a 28-year-old woman alleged to have been his mistress. The woman was shot dead on March 20 and her body was partly burned before being buried on a hillside.
Aside from the criminal investigation, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said in a statement that its own probe discovered that Zhao had violated the Party’s frugality rules, had taken advantage of his position to seek benefits for businesses and officials, and accepted bribes.
He is also suspected of owning illegal firearms and ammunition, and of committing adultery.
The case has been passed to the judicial authorities for further investigation, the commission said.
Zhao joined the police in northeast China’s Jilin Province in 1972 and was promoted to chief of the Inner Mongolia police in 2005.
In 2012, he was elected deputy chairman of the regional political advisory body.
The commission also yesterday announced the expulsion of two other senior officials.
The first was 53-year-old Yang Weize, a former Party chief of Nanjing, capital of east China’s Jiangsu Province, who was expelled for “serious violations” of Party rules and for concealing personal information that should have been reported to the authorities.
He was also found to have accepted several large bribes and used his position to influence business deals and the appointment of officials, the commission said.
Yang was an alternate member of the CPC Central Committee and a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Jiangsu Provincial Committee.
The Supreme People’s Procuratorate said it has started an investigation into Yang for alleged bribe-taking and placed him under “coercive measures,” which covers such things as summons by force, residential surveillance, detention and arrest.
The discipline commission said in January that Yang had been placed under investigation for suspected serious violation of Party disciplines.
The second official to be expelled from the Party was 58-year-old Qiu He, the former deputy Party chief of Yunnan Province.
He, too, was found guilty of using his position to influence business deals and the appointment of officials.
The case has been handed over to the judicial authorities for criminal investigation.
Meanwhile, the People’s Liberation Army yesterday said that a former senior military official has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of embezzlement.
Zhang Daixin served as deputy commander of northeast China’s Heilongjiang provincial military area command before his conviction, the PLA said in a statement, without elaborating.
It said also that Wang Xin, the former political commissar of the traffic unit of the Chinese People’s Armed Police, has been put under investigation for suspected “serious disciplinary violations.”
His case has been transferred to military prosecutors.
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