Former top official faces prosecution
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A FORMER deputy head of the mainland’s Taiwan Affairs Office is to be prosecuted for “serious discipline violations,” the Party’s anti-graft watchdog said yesterday,
Gong Qinggai is the latest official to fall in an ongoing crackdown on corruption.
China has jailed dozens of senior officials since a sweeping campaign against graft was launched in late 2012.
An investigation found that Gong had not honestly reported his stock and real estate assets, spent public money extravagantly, and abused his position for private interests, a statement on the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said. He also traded his power for sex and is suspected of taking bribes, the statement said.
Gong had also played golf, which is banned for Party members, and “took part in superstitious activities.” It didn’t elaborate.
“In his capacity as a senior Party official, Gong Qinggai lost his ideals and convictions, seriously violated Party discipline ... had not restrained himself, and the nature (of his violations) was extremely vile and severe,” the CCDI said.
Gong had been expelled from the Party and his case handed over to prosecutors, it said.
The government announced in January that he had been put under investigation.
Gong, 57, is from the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian, which lies just across the narrow strait that separates China’s mainland and the island of Taiwan.
He joined the Taiwan Affairs Office, which is in charge of policy toward the island, in 2013, having previously spent his entire working career with the Fujian government, according to his official biography.
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