Party expels two senior officials accused in anti-corruption crackdown
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Two more senior officials have been expelled from the Communist Party and sent for prosecution as China’s crackdown on corruption continues.
The Party’s disciplinary watchdog said yesterday that both were accused of receiving enormous amounts of money and goods in return for doing favors for others, and were suspected of criminal offenses.
Wang Suyi, 52, former senior official of north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, has also been dismissed from public office after being investigated for serious discipline violations, the Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said.
Wang was a member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and head of the United Front Work Department of the regional Party committee.
The commission said Wang took advantage of his position to seek benefits for others and accepted a huge amount of money and property either personally or through his family members.
The commission also said that Li Daqiu, 60, former vice chairman of the Guangxi committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and former chairman of the Guangxi Federation of Trade Unions in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, had been sacked for breaches of discipline.
Both cases will be transferred to judicial departments. No other details were disclosed.
Wang’s alleged wrongdoings were exposed by one of his mistresses, according to the South China Morning Post.
It quoted a Weibo post by Gu Hua, a senior editor at Henan Daily, saying she had accused him of taking 100 million yuan (US$16.34 million) in bribes, having several mistresses, including university students and journalists, and of nepotism involving about 30 relatives.
Party disciplinary investigators began looking into Wang on June 30 and Li on July 6.
Yesterday, Su Shunhu, 59, former deputy director of transportation at the former Ministry of Railways, appeared in a Beijing court where he admitted taking bribes of up to 24 million yuan from three companies.
A verdict is to be announced at a later date.
On Tuesday, Jiang Jiemin, head of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, was removed from his post because of suspected serious discipline violations.
The list of fallen officials also includes Liu Tienan, former deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission; Li Chuncheng, former deputy Party chief in Sichuan Province, and Wang Yongchun, former deputy general manager of the China National Petroleum Corporation.
In early July, former Railways Minister Liu Zhijun was given a suspended death penalty for taking bribes and abuse of power, making him the highest-ranking official sentenced so far for such offenses since the country’s new leaders took office in March.
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