FDA deputy chief sacked, probed
By Li Xinran |
June 14, 2010, Monday
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A DEPUTY chief of China's food and drug regulator has been sacked and is being investigated for disciplinary violations, flagging another possible corruption scandal for the watchdog.
Zhang Jingli, 55, a deputy director of State Food and Drug Administration since 2003, is being investigated by the Communist Party of China Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, an anti-corruption body, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday, citing an official in a brief report that offered no details on what the suspected violations were.
It's not the first time this year that FDA officials have been investigated.
Only months ago, five of Zhang's former colleagues and subordinates were arrested on graft charges.
Almost the same time, another official was ordered to stay at home pending results of the investigation.
The five were arrested on suspicion of taking bribes, according to an earlier report by the Economic Observer.
Of the five arrested officials, Wei Liang was the first to be given double-designation status in the investigation, which is still undergoing and may take in more officials, a well-informed source told the Beijing-based newspaper.
Double designation is when a Party official is ordered to answer allegations at a designated time and place.
Wei used to be a senior clerk in the bio-products division of the FDA's drug registration department, which mainly deals with setting national standards and registering bio-products.
Wei was being investigated after a tip-off from a bio-products company, according to a source familiar with the situation, adding that Wei's violation involved about 1.5 million yuan (US$220,000).
The investigation was then extended to other administration officials. Five more were given double-designation status and were suspended from duties before arrests were ordered for four of them. The other was ordered to stay at home pending results.
China's FDA is now affiliated with the Ministry of Health and no longer independent after former chief Zheng Xiaoyu was executed in 2007 after being found guilty of taking 6.49 million yuan in bribes and dereliction of duty.
Zhang Jingli, 55, a deputy director of State Food and Drug Administration since 2003, is being investigated by the Communist Party of China Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, an anti-corruption body, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday, citing an official in a brief report that offered no details on what the suspected violations were.
It's not the first time this year that FDA officials have been investigated.
Only months ago, five of Zhang's former colleagues and subordinates were arrested on graft charges.
Almost the same time, another official was ordered to stay at home pending results of the investigation.
The five were arrested on suspicion of taking bribes, according to an earlier report by the Economic Observer.
Of the five arrested officials, Wei Liang was the first to be given double-designation status in the investigation, which is still undergoing and may take in more officials, a well-informed source told the Beijing-based newspaper.
Double designation is when a Party official is ordered to answer allegations at a designated time and place.
Wei used to be a senior clerk in the bio-products division of the FDA's drug registration department, which mainly deals with setting national standards and registering bio-products.
Wei was being investigated after a tip-off from a bio-products company, according to a source familiar with the situation, adding that Wei's violation involved about 1.5 million yuan (US$220,000).
The investigation was then extended to other administration officials. Five more were given double-designation status and were suspended from duties before arrests were ordered for four of them. The other was ordered to stay at home pending results.
China's FDA is now affiliated with the Ministry of Health and no longer independent after former chief Zheng Xiaoyu was executed in 2007 after being found guilty of taking 6.49 million yuan in bribes and dereliction of duty.
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