Military official admits accepting bribes for help with promotions
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A LEADING official in China’s Central Military Commission has confessed to taking a huge amount of bribes in return for army promotions, military prosecutors said yesterday.
An investigation into Xu Caihou, the commissioin’s former vice chairman, has concluded and a case is being filed, the military procuratorate said in a statement.
Xu was found to have taken advantage of his position to assist the promotion of others, accepted huge bribes either personally or through his f amily, and sought profits for others in exchange for bribes. The amount of bribes is “extremely large,” the statement said.
Xu was expelled from the Communist Party and his case was handed to prosecutors at a June meeting chaired by President Xi Jinping. Xu had been under investigation since March.
Xu, 71, was CMC vice chairman from 2004 to 2012 and was made a general in 1999.
He has been discharged from military service with his rank of general revoked.
The CPC Central Committee statement in June described his case as “serious and having a vile impact.”
It warned: “Anyone, no matter what authority and office he holds, will receive serious punishment if found violating Party discipline and law. We will never compromise nor show mercy.”
China’s leaders launched an anti-corruption campaign in late 2012.
At a disciplinary watchdog meeting in early 2013, Xi vowed to make no exceptions in Party discipline and law no matter who is involved — high-flying “tigers” or low-level “flies.”
According to the Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection website, about 50 “tigers” at provincial and ministerial level or higher have been investigated for corruption or other serious disciplinary violations since November 2012.
The campaign has swept through military and civilian sectors, central and local governments, state-owned enterprises and public institutions.
In July, Zhou Yongkang, a former member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee’s Political Bureau, was put under investigation — the highest-ranking official downed so far.
In March, Gu Junshan, deputy head of the general logistics department of the People’s Liberation Army, was charged with embezzlement, bribery, misuse of state funds and abuse of power.
Two members of the 205-strong Central Committee and five of its 171 alternate members also fell from grace.
A majority of these were senior provincial officials or chief officials of provincial capitals. Five members of the provincial top decision-making body in north China’s Shanxi Province are under investigation.
In a decision on major issues concerning advancing the rule of law adopted last week and published yesterday, the Central Committee said lawmakers will speed up legislation work for the anti-corruption law.
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